iris chang committed suicide in november 2004. next is a brief interview about her life with author paula kamen. a former colleague and friend of chang's. >>> paula kamen? >> iris chang known for the best sir "the rape of nanking" and it did huge things to raise awareness about japanese atrocities during world war ii. that was, not only in nanking, but she wrote specifically in great detail about the mass dhaer raised awareness about atrocities throughout asia. so it became a whole movement rather than just a book in the late '90s. >> was she a historian? >> and a journalist. she didn't see them as mutually exclusive. where she was good, the historians, a big tool of hers was archives. she spent days buried in the national archives and other archives but also went out, confronted people face to face. she used all those methods. >> where was she from? >> from urbana, illinois. we met in college at university of illinois in the mid-80s an were friends since then. >> what kind of relationship did you have as friends? >> at first i did

. >>> next week on "history bookshelf," iris chang discusses her book "the chinese in america, a narrative history". the book con cells chinese-americans involvement from the building of the transcontinental railroad to modern day contributions. "history bookshelf" airs on american history tv every saturday at noon. starting monday, the supreme court is scheduled to hear oral argument on the current health care law. next on american history tv, an excerpt of first lady hillary rodham clinton's 1993 testimony before the house energy and commerce committee on president clinton's health care proposal. this is about 45 minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i want to thank you and the members of this committee for giving me this opportunity, but more than that, i want to thank you for the time that you have spent with me over the last months, as we have worked through a lot of the issues that will effect the future health care well-being of our country. i would also particularly like to thank the chairman for the good counsel that he has given to me, as i have pursued the issues relate