american history tv will be live next saturday from richmond, virginia, as historians including james mcverson and david blithe present their candidates. the museum of the confederacy hosts the all-day forum and we'll open our phone lines and take your tweets so you can question historians about their nominations and propose your own candidates. live coverage begins at 9:30 a.m. eastern to 4:30 pm eastern on c-span 3. >>> hosted by our time warner cable partner, american history tv recently visited beaumont, texas. to explore the history and literary culture where the oil industry in texas got its start. for more information on our tour of six south central cities this year, visit c-span.org/localcontent. >> gladdy city, as we refer to it here locally, was built in 1976 for the bicentennial. and it is a recreation of the boom town that was built when spindle top came in on january 10th, 1901. by 1976, there was nothing left of what was the original gladys city which was just across the highway from us about 1/2 mile. so as a project for the bicentennial, you know, this group of people came tog