they are a local st. louis family and they started with just one small store where they sold -- it was a butcher shop and ice cream store. now they are a huge chain that is very widely used in the st. louis area. looking at history from that angle, the idea of even those commonplaces have history was something we thought was very interesting. one of our other places, the overarching idea of home. sony different neighborhoods -- somebody different neighborhoods in st. louis. just as much a part of the city as all of these landmarks. this is where you interact and you work through all of these things in your life that later we wanted toy that show people that idea that history is not just a series of old military fortresses. history can be surrounding you all the time. >> allen huffman shares the tale of two mississippi's. we visit prospect hill in jackson. >> prospect hill was founded by revolutionary war veteran in south carolina. when he realized he would die , hethe slaves would be sold wrote in his will that

st. louis missouri. more than 100 buyries were operating in st. louis because of its large german immigrant population. hosted by our charter cable partners c-span's local team visited many sites showcasing the city's history. learn more about st. louis missouri all weekend here on american history tv. >> a lot of times i ask myself why it is important to have an historic structure. a lot of times, you could read about the history. you read about the history where you are thinking this event happened right where i'm standing. so that is the value that you can get the moment of connection between people who are walking around today and thinking of their own thoughts and lives and suddenly they can jump back into the past mentally and at least have some sort of a connection with people from the past. we're in st. louis's old courthouse. it is a building that is no longer used for the courts today. it hasn't been since 1930 but it is an historic building that has been preserved to tell a little about st. louis's history. this courthouse is known for dred scott sued for his freedom. that freedom suit launched in 1846 went to the u.s. supreme court, which in

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st. louis, missouri. our local team recently traveled there to learn about its rich history. arn more about st. louis and other stops at c-span.org/localcontent. you are watching american history tv all weekend on c-span3. >> this haunting likeness of a partly dressed man like he sold the parting the body is a product of the women's titanic memorial association. lives were lost when hms titanic went to the bottom of the north atlantic after striking an iceberg on the night of april 14, 1912. half of the female passengers perished, a number that would have been even higher but for numbers -- hundreds of men that yielded seats on the woefully inadequate lifeboats. that is why the women's titanic memorial is explicitly dedicated to the men of the titanic. whom never reached new york. the figure a sacrifice that towers over channel park is the creation of a female sculptor and patron of the arts. gertrude vanderbilt whitney is probably best remembered today as the founder of new york's whitney museum of art than she is for her leading child custody34 case involving her 10-year-old

st. louis, missouri. to learn more about the cities under 2014 tour, visit www.c-span.org/local content. on c-span3. in 2014, st. louis is celebrating 250 years of history. to commemorate the founding of the city, the missouri history museum has put together an exhibit called "250 in 250". the year-long exhibit will tell the city's history through the stories of 50 people, 50 places, 50 images, 50 moments, and 50 objects. the museum public historian shares with us selections from the exhibit. we are standing in the 50 objects section of the "250 in 250" exhibit right now. this is what most people would call the real history. this is where the object is right in front of you. one of my favorite objects is the st. louis city flexing behind me here on the wall. the st. louis city flag is a great object. a lot of people think it's 250 years old. the idea of cities having flags is a recent thing. baltimore became the first city to have its own flag in 1914. st. louis was one of the first the following year when they adopted the flag. this was not the flag. they chose another flag with a famou

st. louis, missouri. to learn more about the cities under 2014 tour, visit www.c-span.org/local content. we continue now with our look at the history of st. louis. this is american history tv on c-span3. in 2014, st. louis is celebrating 250 years of history. to commemorate the founding of the city, the missouri history museum has put together an exhibit called "250 in 250". the year-long exhibit will tell the city's history through the stories of 50 people, 50 places, 50 images, 50 moments, and 50 objects. the museum public historian shares with us selections from the exhibit. we are standing in the 50 objects section of the "250 in 250" exhibit right now. this is what most people would call the real history. this is where the object is right in front of you. one of my favorite objects is the st. louis city flexing behind me here on the wall. the st. louis city flag is a great object. a lot of people think it's 250 years old. the idea of cities having flags is a recent thing. baltimore became the first city to have its own flag in 1914. st. louis was one of the first the following year w

st. louis. the local golfer's journey to become a pro. ,,,,,, my dad worked as a short order cook.ight here. my parents were immigrants. and they taught me that with hard work, anything is possible. i earned a scholarship to mit. and worked across party lines to get things done. i'm alex padilla. i'll protect voting rights for everyone. and make it easier to start a business. so we create jobs and opportunity for all californians. what should we order? (announcer) alex padilla. secretary of state. a's host the angels tonight. giants saturday business... the books... "wacha, wacha" >>> baseball leads us off. two hot bay area teams. a's host the angels tonight it. the giants, well, their saturday business is in the books. yeah, michael wacha's house in st. louis. wacha shut down the giants' bats which had been red-hot. tossed six shutout innings, 7 strikeouts. hunter pence in the third. giants struck out former cal bear allen craig to end the 4th. petite had five strikeouts in six innings. allowed two hitches. prospect oscar taveras deep away and gone. it is major league debut second

st. louis. locally, over four inches of rain possible. strong storms possible. we're going to take you live outside so you can see exactly what we're expecting in the next few hours. in st. louis, missouri, it's dry for now. but that picture is going to change in the next few hours. we want to remind you to keep it tuned to your local abc station as that severe weather threat will continue throughout the day. let's talk about good weather. i do bring you good news. we've been talking about severe weather since we started. but we're seeing cooler and drier weather across parts of the dakotas. all the way in towards minneapolis. check it out. finally seeing a break from the severe weather and the arctic air. right now, temperatures are expected to be in the 60s in rapid city. 67 degrees in denver. that's well below average. their average should be in the 80s. >> and when i come back, i'll have the forecast for belmont stakes. a huge race today. >> huge day. we're going to be talking about that coming up in the next half hour. >>> we'll also have a deeper discussion

st. louis with the help of our local cable partner charter we talk with tim o'neil, author of "mobs, mayhemder: tales from the st. louis police beat." >> 2008 which wasn't a very good time for the nation or journalism, newspaper work, and the paper was looking for things to do and we were publishing some books, and somebody or got the bright idea, let's do a book about big crimes over the years. and st. louis is 250 years old this year. they asked me to do it. i mean, i did this for the newspaper. it's not like i bravely come you know, took a sabbatical and eight run windows hoping someone would love my book. i did this for the newspaper. it was my assignment, and so for eight, nine months i did the research, wrote the stories. other people in the photo department and i found the photos. i'm proud of my writing. i love my little words like most people in newspaper but the truth is, what really makes this book are the nearly 200 photographs. newspaper photo files are as good as you going to get in terms of a local record. and the dispatch files here both good things and photos are good about

st. louis with the help of our low bulk -- local cable partner we talked with tim o'neil, author of "mobs mayhem and murder: tales from the st. louis police beat". >> 2008 was not a very good time for the nation or journalism. the paper was looking for things to do and we were publishing books. somebody here but the bright idea to do a book about big crimes over the years. san louis is 250 years old this year. they asked me to do it. and i did this for the newspaper. it is not like i bravely took a sabbatical and eight ramen noodles hoping the someone would love my book. i did this for the newspaper. it was my assignment. for eight or nine months i did the research, wrote the stories. other people in the photo department and i found the photos. i am proud of my riding and love my words. what really makes this book of the nearly 200 photographs. newspaper photo files are as good as you will get in terms of a local record. the first dispatch files here are good until about the late 1920's. each one of the articles is newspaper feature-length. each article has whatever photographer we would

st. louis, i've got relatives there, a lot of ties there, there's such a pride regionally about st. louis, and yet, the city does get oddly ignored even by localove being from st. louis, i love the cardinals. it is sort of -- it's an odd bifurcation. >> when they leave st. louis and go someplace else and people ask where they're from, they say st. louis. they don't say clayton. st. louis has an infor yort complex. we've talked about that a lot on the air. i think it's because it hasn't achieved what it was destined to achieved a century ago. a century is a long time to be pouting on having not been ago successful as it could have been. >> you do top world series titles. that's an opportunity distinction that st. louis has over chicago. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> in nearly 70 years two republicans have served as missouri secretary of state. here's why we asked the question. both of them were named blount. the only two republican secretaries of state in a half a centur century. congratulations to today's winner, kendall bailey. we'll be right back. when sales rep steve hatfield books at laquinta.com, he gets a ready for you alert the

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local cable or satellite provider. >> the idea is incident trying to tell the entire history of st. louis as a timeline or error era,r a -- era by we would miss important things. what we just do snapshot that would give people a glimpse of all the diverse things that have happened here and make it use their imaginations to fill in the rest? ,e chose 50 places, images entity objects and try to choose the most diverse selection we possibly could. we're standing in the 50 objects section. most people will call the real history. this is where the object is right in front of you. brewing is such a huge part in the st. louis history. there are lots of different breweries. the most famous became anheuser-busch. they talked about millions of barrels produced each year. they're producing so much beer. things from an era when were a little simpler. it is fun to gauge their response. the days before they had canceled or bottle caps, they put corks in top of bottles and somebody had to sit on this thing and do it by hand. you can see it has foot pedals on the bottom. that is where the operator would

st. louis are on deck as well. >>> don't forget about our grand challenge for local nonprofits called 21st century solutions. there's a $50,000 grant available as well as two $25,000 grants. we want to turn great ideas into better ones. applications are being accepted until august 8th. >>> time now to check in with kate snow for a look at what's coming up on nbc "nightly news." >> we give you an inside look at the conflict in iraq as militants seize another city. plus why one stretch of arizona land is prime real estate for smuggle smugglers. we have some surprising tips that could save you big at the pump this summer. how this year's world cup soccer ball could be a game-changer. >>> we'll see you in a few. >> thanks. >>> as many fans will tell you, you just have to have faith. the phillies are going for a sixth straight win today. pick it up in the first, hamels with eight strikeouts through eight innings so far. ryan howard, great diving stop at first. we go to the fifth. wayne wright. both runs come off sacrifice flies. >>> the fliers first two games were announced today. they'll open the season october

st. louis, missouri. it is celebrating its 200 50th anniversary this year and our local content vehicle recently explored the rich history. on to germans really took this notion of bringing it into the city of st. louis and introducing it. became they, he father of the lager beer. and introduced a new wave of culture in the city. very quickly, he realized he had a market on this new beer and started employing a number of people and built up the plant. the other thing he learned to do ideas followed the latest about pasteurization, refrigeration. as soon as these things are coming into play, he was incorporating them into his plan that allowed him to be in the .orefront of everybody else he made his fortune by being smart. the turn of the 20th century begins and there is grumbling's from the temperance women, people beginning to see that saloons and breweries are not a life, forfor the home the cultural and general. america had an alcohol problem. they were drinking too much. the women were concerned about this. the brewery starts to fear that something is in the works. many just decided they would not fig

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st. louis. coming up today at noon on book tv. we visit with localauthors and g to historic sites including a . ip to bell fountain cemetery >> the book contains sections which tell the history of the city of st. louis. each section contains biographies. altogether there are 80. so i wrote biographies of people buried here. some of my favorites are people who changed the world. such as william clark of the lewis and clark expedition who went out -- he change it had way we live because without the work of lewis and clark the west would have been -- would have taken much longer to settle it. they just opened the way. they made it possible. he had another very important influence on the history of the united states as super teandnt of indian affairs and one that is not so well known they called him the red-haired chief because he was a negotiator. he brought 419,000 acres of indian land into the territory of the united states without ever raising a musk et. it was all negotiations. >> the thesis of the book is that there is a whole group of people in am

st. louis, missouri. our localntent vehicles team recently traveled there to learn about its rich history. learn more about st. louis and other stops on c-span's cities for at c-span/localcontent. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> necks of american history tv, author and state department historian james gran wilson -- james graham wilson. the event was hosted by the wilson center at the national history center. it is about one hour and 15 minutes. >> as we know, this is a relatively tense time given some of the topics that i try to deal with in the book, the end of the cold war. i think it is worth keeping some things in perspective in 2014. you know, i start off with an example of a telephone call in the middle of the night on november 9, 1979. his military adviser is calling to say that 220 soviet icbms are on the way. he says, call me again in a minute to confirm that. the assistant called again and says i was wrong, it is now 2200 missiles. just before dialing the w

st. louis, missouri. 100 buyries were operating in st. louis because large german immigrant population. charter cable partners, c-span's local team visited many sites showcasing the city's history. learn more about st. louis, missouri all weekend here on tv.ican history >> a lot of times i ask myself have ans important to historic structure. of times, you could read history. you read about the history where thinking this event happened right where i'm standing. youhat is the value that can get the moment of connection between people who are walk

st. louis, missouri. gateway arch that is made monument. c-span's localntent vehicles visited many sites exploring the city's rich history. about st. louis all weekend long on american history tv. think most people are like i was when i first saw it. it from a distance, you think that is interesting, that is kind of cool. closer you get to it you massive it is and anding to the base of it touching it and looking up to the top, it is really very impressive. the closer you get to the more become.d you we're standing very close to the arch in st. louis. steelot tall stainless structure designed in 1947 but mid 1960'snto the and completed in 1965. each year we

st. louis, missouri. founded in 1764 as a fur trading town. hosted by our charter cable partners c-span's local cable vehicles visited many sites exploring the city's history. learn more about st. louis all this weekend on american history tv. >> in 2014, st. louis is celebrating 250 years of history. to commemorate the founding of the history, the museum has put together a museum called 250 in 250. it will tell the city's history in 50 places, 50 people, 50 places, and 50 objects. the historian shares with us one of the selections from the five sections. >> we're standing in the 50 images section of the 250 in 250 exhibit. it is all the images are arranged in a slide show so you can watch them scroll by. we show the image in the corner and a big blown up portion where you can pan across and see details that you might overwise miss. the 250 team chose almost all of the images of our collection. we have an extensive collection from photographs and prints. so we had a lot to choose from. they layed them out on the table and we chose what we thought respected st. louis. we chose to leave out recog

st. louis is a collection of incredibly diverse places, not terms of architecture but in terms of their meaning and the effect it had nationally. so we had local artist andy cross draw all 50 places in a giant chalk board mural right behind me, and then just off we have an area where people can fine out much more aboutation electronically each place, and a photo gallery going through each one. at the computer stations people can go find each one of these places that are up on the wall they can dive further in. we have a descriptive piece we chose it,ce why some of the interesting aspects of it and then a photo gallery, to 10 photos of the place, some of them throughout history they're places that were very noticeable. and now you would never see them. to mine is big mound, just on the other side of kahokia mound thsh massive native american former back in 1200's, a large area for this native american culture. and we had indian mounds on the side of the river, too, and big mound was the largest of them. it was 100 some odd feet long you cone miss it, it was huge. fille 1860's it became dirt for a railroad, so now all that's left is a small rock