>> and in the weeks ahead we'll hear from helen bentley, barbara kennely and nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories, sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. >>> each week american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places to learn about american history. next we visit the henry ford in dearborn, michigan, to see the garage where ford built his first car, the quadricycle. historic structures curator jim johnson shows us ford's childhood home where he was born in 1863. both buildings were relocated to greenfield village, the living history section of the henry ford. >> my name is jim johnson and i'm the curator of the landscapes here at the henry ford and we're here at henry ford in greenfield village and here with a 1914 model t. and it was just one of the things you get to experience here in greenfield village. behind me is the bagley shed and this stood behind his house in detroit, a rented house where he developed his first gasoline engine and eventually his first car in 1896. and then we'll be having a look at his birthplace, which was also

. >> in the weeks ahead, we will hear from helen bentley, barbara cannoli, the jostle, and lynn woolsey. watch oral history, sunday at 10 am eastern, on american history tv on c-span three. >>> american history tv was that the organization of american historians annual meeting in sacramento, california. we spoke with the university of texas san antonio professor greg michelle, about the fbi's covert surveillance program. the targeted student organizations during the civil rights movement. if the offer had struggled for a brother saw, the saturn -- southern student organizing committee 1964-1969. this is just over 15 minutes. >>> greg michelle is the associate professor of the department of history at the university of texas in san antonio. >>: tell pro stands for counterintelligence program. it was the name of fbi programming designed to conduct primarily covert operations against organizations and individuals that the fbi deemed a threat to domestic or national security. >> why is this important? >> for several reasons, this was a artifact in the cold war era when communists, or suspec

. >>> in the weeks ahead, we will hear from helen bentley, barb racanelli, nancy johnson, and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories. sunday at 10 am eastern on american history tv on cspan 3. >>> [ music ] >>> 2018 is the centennial year of u.s. participation in world war i. and, american history tv is marking the anniversary with a variety of programs. every spring, the u.s. army heritage and education center in carlisle, pennsylvania hosts a living history event, featuring several hundred reenactors from all eras of american history. next, on american artifacts, we visit with several reenactors, who specialize in betraying german soldiers of the great war. we will also go underground to see a reconstructed german bunker. this is about 20 minutes. >>> my name is hans. we are here at the army heritage center in carlisle. we are representing world war i soldiers today. we are representing the infantry regiment 52. i have learned pretty much the early war. 1910. 1910 trousers. and of course, the traditional jackboots. also, i have got the strap, and the brown petroleum pouches. i am wearing my

announcer: and in the weeks ahead, we will hear from nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch on c-span3. tonight on c-span, youth activists speaking at the youth conference of mayors. a discussion about brett kavanaugh with a panel of his former law clerks. and political commentator ben shapiro speaking at the national conservative student conference. this year's meeting at the u.s. conference of mayors in boston included speakers by youth activists who talked about their work on gun violence, the environment, and sexual harassment. this part of the meeting begins with mayor stephen benjamin. mayor

fromncer: we will hear robert canales, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. announcer: the franklin d. roosevelt residential library did your a unique film collection and joining us on the phone is library director paul sparrow. -- was an assistant to franco roosevelt starting in 1920 and was with him for more than 20 years and was a close friend of the family as well. she lived in the white house when he was president and she became intrigued with film cameras. she would film a number of these at formal pictures and events and luncheons. -- picnics and events and luncheons. movies to herme included in her collection. she had a stroke in 1941 and left the white house and took possessions with her and died several years later it did not become part of the initial library collects with the library was created. her grand nieces decided to donate these films to a library last year and since then we have been going back to the original film, had them transferred and restored and n

. >>> in the weeks ahead, we will hear from barb racanelli, nancy johnson, and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories. sunday at 10 am eastern on american history tv. on c-span 3. >>> saturday at 10 am eastern on c-span. live coverage of the democratic national committee's summer meeting in chicago. to decide on changes to the parties residential nominating process, including the role of superdelegates. watch live on saturday at 10 am eastern on c-span, cspan.org, or listen with the free c-span radio app . >>> since 2011, architect and historic preservationist, joby hill, has been visiting and compiling a database of former suede -- slave dwellings in the united states. are interested was -- interdisciplinary work includes documentation, photography, interpretation and -- slave history. up next on american artifacts, we travel to southern virginia, near the north carolina border, to visit the former brandon plantation, with joby hill, and learn about her saving slave houses projects. she is joined by several archaeologists and preservationist, and a team from trumbull inc. who ca

. >> and in the weeks ahead, we'll hear from helen bentley, barbara canali, nancy johnson, and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories sunday on c-span3. >>> each week american artifacts takes you to mu # see museums. next we take you to dearborn, michigan. transportation coordinator matt anderson shows us early vehicles made by henry ford, including the model t. we'll also see the sporty and stylized mustang and hear how and why the brand changed over time. >>> my name is matt anderson. i'm curate or of the museum in dearborn michigan taking a look at some of the vehicles in our driving america exhibit. the first one i want to look at is arguably the most significant one we have, where most of them came from. it is the quadricycle, the very first automobile built by henry ford. ford was fascinated right into early adulthood and automobiles being the new technology of the time, he was very much caught up in the excitement surrounding them and knew that he wanted to get into it. he never had intentions of selling this car. instead it was something of a prototype, a way for him to wrap his mind ar

. >> in the weeks ahead, we will hear from helen bentley, barbara tonelli, nancy johnson, and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories. sunday at 10 am eastern. on american history tv on cspan 3. >>> every spring, the u.s. army heritage and education center in carlisle pennsylvania hosts a living history event, featuring several hundred reenactors from all eras of american history. next, on american artifacts, we visit a mock world war i trench, to hear from u.s. army veterans who specialize in portraying french soldiers of the great war. this is about 20 minutes. >> good morning. my name is carter bartel. i portray a first lieutenant and 18th infantry regiment french army, circa 1917, 1918. we are sitting here at carlisle backs at the army hysterical education center. and, we are giving presentations on the french army and its -- world war i and its link to american forces. if you look here at this trench system, you will see, it was fitted with wood. this was actually taken off the u.s. army manual, dated 1917, of how to build a trench system. it was copied from the british manual, but you can

. >> and in the weeks ahead we'll hear from barbara kennelly, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch "oral histories" sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv. on c-span3. >>> saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, live coverage of the democratic national committee summer meeting in chicago to decide on changes to the party's presidential nominating process, including the role of superdegrees. watch live saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. >>> since 2011 architect and historic preservationist jobie hill has been visiting and compiling former slave dwellings in the united states. her inner disciplinary work includes architectural documentary. up next, we travel to southern virginia near the north carolina border to visit the former brandon plantation with jobie hill and learn about her saving slave houses project. she's joined by several archaeologists and preservations and a team from trimbel who came along with a series of 3-d laser scans. >> we're here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave ho

we will hear from sue myrick, eva clayton, helen bentley, barbara kennelly, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >>> this weekend the c-span cities tour takes you to las cruces, new mexico. with the help of our comcast cable partners we will explore the life and history of las cruces located at the foot of the oregon mountains and along the banks of the rio grande. saturday at 12 noon eastern on book tv author john hunter explores the impact of the manhattan project on new mexico in his book. the cold war and the atomic west. >> when oppenheimer brought nuclear physics west, first to berkeley and to caltech, and then to new mexico, he changed particularly new mexico. it brought this state that was poor, had very little infrastructure, and put in the middle of it this federally funded facility that just transformed the state. >> then author martha andrews discusses the roles of western frontier women in her book out of the shadows, the women of southern new mexico. on sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american hist

ahead, we'll hear from sue myrick, eva clayton, helen bentley, barbara kennelly, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories on sunday at 10:00 a.m. on c-span3. >> announcer: this weekend the c-span cities tour takes you to las cruces, new mexico. with the help of our comcast cable partners we'll explore the life of literacy in las cruces along the banks of the rio grande saturday on book tv. his book, j. robert oppenheimer, the cold war in the great west. >> when oppenheimer first brought history to cal tech and then to new mexico, he changed particularly new mexico. it brought this state that was poor, had very little infrastructure and put in the middle of it this federally funded facility that just transformed the state. >> announcer: then author martha andrews discusses the roles of western frontier women in her book "out of the shadows: the women of southern mexico." we visit the white sands missile range museum. >> the testing that's been done out here, people think it's been mostly military testing, but it really -- it's involved a lot of civilian uses as well. a lot of the roc

will hear from sue myrick, unifer clayton, carlene bentley, barbara cannoli, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch oral history sunday at 10 am eastern. on american history tv. on c-span3. >>> this weekend, the c-span city tour takes you to list chris's new mexico. with the help of our comcast cable partner we will explore the literary life and history of oscar says mack located at the foot of the oregon mountains and along the banks of the rio grande. saturday at 12 noon eastern on book tv. john hunter explores the impact of an impact project on new mexico. j robert oppenheimer, the cold war and the atomic west. >> when oppenheimer brought nuclear physics to the west, then to new mexico, he changed particularly new mexico, they brought this state that was poor and had very little infrastructure and put in the middle of this a federally funded facility that just transformed the state. >> author martha andrews discusses the role of frontier women and the book out of the shadows, the women of southern new mexico on sunday at 2 pm eastern on american history tv. we visit the white spent -- san

. >> in the weeks ahead we will hear from helen bentley, barbara cannelly and lynn woolsey. american history tv on c-span 3. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> senate minority leader chuck schumer says democrats stand ready to sue for documents regarding supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and his work in the white house during the bush administration. he and sheldon whitehouse spoke with reporters earlier today. >> hi, everybody. welcome to the abbreviated week,

> and in the weeks ahead, we'll hear from helen bentley, barbara kennely and nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. >>> up next on american history tv "reel america," give yourself the green light. a 1954 general motors film encouraging citizens to support programs to improve roads and highways. the film begins by depicting traffic jams, unsafe roads and city congestion and then documents the results of a nationwide gm contest seeking road system ideas, infrastructure advocacy such as this film helped result in the passage of the $25 billion federal aid highway act of 1956. this is about 25 minutes. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this is the american dream. a freedom on wheels. an automotive age traveling on time-saving super highways. future free flowing channels of concrete and steel. but these wide lanes of reality actually measure out to just a few miles scattered far apart across the friendly face of our land. we have become the nation on wheels. with more motorized mobility than ever dreamed of before. though we have the greates

met in the weeks ahead, we will hear from helen bentley, barbara canelo, nancy johnson, and lynn woolsey, watch oral history sunday at 10 am eastern. on american history tv on c- span three. >>> c-span was in memphis tennessee for events commemorating the 50th anniversary of martin luther king jr.'s assassination on april 4, 1968. that is the outdoor ceremony from the national civil rights museum plaza in front of the motel where the reverend king was shot. you will see remarks by religious and civil rights leaders including andrew young and jesse jackson. both of whom were with martin luther king. nearly 3 our commemoration and with the tolling of the bill is exactly 50 years after the assassination. >>>

. >> in the weeks ahead we'll hear from helen bentley, barbara kennelly, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories, sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. >>> every spring the u.s. army heritage and education center in carlisle, pennsylvania, posts a living history event featuring several hundred reenactors from all eras of american history. next, on american artifacts, we visit a mock world war i trench to hear from two u.s. army veterans who specialize in portraying french soldiers of the great war. this is about 20 minutes. >>> good morning, my name is carter bertone, i portray a first lieutenant in the 18th infantry regiment french army 1917/1918. we're sitting here at carlisle barracks at the army historical education center and we're giving presentations on the french army and its role in the world war i and its links to the american forces. 23 you take a look here at this trench system, you'll see it's riveted with wood. this is actually -- this was actually taken off the u.s. army manual dated 1917 of how to build a trench system copied from

announcer: in the weeks ahead, we will hear from heaven bentley, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories sunday at 10 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. america's 30 third president estates life in washington, d.c. by visiting what he calls the little white house in key west, florida. we take you there as we hear the stories of how president truman spends his time at this historic retreat. ♪ >> the little white house got its name partly through an accident. partly through just the fact that franklin roosevelt had had a little white house. in our particular case, president truman was at everglades city dedicating the everglades national park in december 1947, and the press corps started yelling at the president, are you going to return to florida? he responded by saying, of course, i have a little white house in key west. the house at that time was painted gray. the navy took this as a clear indication the president was returning so they painted the building all white. it is no longer navy grey, it is all white for the little white house. i would like to

. >> and in the weeks ahead, we'll hear from elin bentley, barbara canali, nancy johnson, and lynn woolsey. watch oriole histories sunday at 10 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >>> each week american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places to learn about american history. next we continue our tour of the driving america exhibit at the henry ford museum in dearborn, michigan. transportation curate or matt anderson shows us a 1931 car and describes how auto manufacturing changed during world war ii. we'll also learn how vehicles evolved based on customer preference and available technology. one of the last models we'll see is a 1983 honda accord, the first model built in the united states. >>> we're standing in front of what is probably our guests' favorite car, if we had to poll all the visitors who came through to ask which car they enjoyed seeing the most, i suspect it would be this car here, our bugati1931royale. he was a designer of race cars in the 1920s, but he had hopes in the early 19 #30s of building cars that were so luxurious that they would be favored b

. >> and in the weeks ahead, we'll hear from barbara kennelly, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. women in congress sunday on american history tv on c-span3. >>> rolling thunder is the name of an annual motorcycle ride to washington, d.c., but originally it was a vietnam war air campaign. up next douglas kennedy of the u.s. air force academy describes the goals of the campaign such as destroying north vietnam's transportation system, plus the limitations put in place. this is from our weekly "lectures in history" series. it's about 50 minutes. >>> sir, passport is ready for instruction. >> thank you, officer. take a seat. good to see you all here today. appreciate you coming here. we did reading out of thompson book, two big chapters discussing rolling thunder. those two chapters focusing on the latter part of rolling thunder. we're establish some good context and then discuss air power in this operation. again, last time we talked about vietnam, this is our second of four lessons talking about air power in vietnam. last time reading our text, we discussed air power in the south.

. >> and in the weeks ahead, hearing from helen bentley, barbara kennelly, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >>> next, on lectures in history, university of central florida professor yanek mieczkowski teaches a class about some of the people who challenged the status quo of the u.s. auto industry from the post-world war ii era toth

announcer: in the weeks ahead, we will hear from heaven bentley, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories sunday at 10 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. america's 30 third president estates life in washington, d.c. by visiting what he calls the little white house in key west, florida. we take you there as we hear the stories of how president truman spends his time at this historic retreat. ♪

. >> in the weeks ahead we will hear from helen bentley, barbara kelly, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch oral history sunday at 10 am eastern time on american history tv on c-span 3. >>> each week, ic

. >> and in the weeks ahead, hearing from helen bentley, barbara kennelly, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch "oral histories" sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >>> next, on lectures in history, university of central florida professor yanek mieczkowski teaches a class about some of the people who challenged the status quo of the u.s. auto industry from the post-world war ii era to the present day. he discusses the successes and failures of people such as harley earl, preston tucker, john delorean and elon musk. his class is about 50 minutes. >> all right.

. >> in the weeks ahead we'll hear from helen bentley, barbara kennelly, nancy johnson and lynn woolseyistories, sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3.

. >>> in the weeks ahead, we will hear from helen bentley, barb racanelli, nancy johnson, and lynn woolsey. wa

. >> in the weeks ahead we'll hear from helen bentley, barbara kennelly, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch "oral history" sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. >> each week, american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and historic sites around the country. next we visit the smithsonian national air and space museum to learn about stone carvings created in trenches and bunkers by world war i soldiers and only recently rediscovered. our guide's photographs of the carvings are featured in the exhibit. >> hello, my name is dr. jeff guessky, i'm a national geographic photographer, emergency physician, explorer and television host. welcome to the smiths

barbara kennely, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> >> 2018 is the centennial year of u.s.cipation in world war i and american history tv is marking the anniversary with a variety of programs. previously on american artifacts we visit the u.s. army heritage and education sister's living history event in carlisle, pennsylvania, to talk to reenactors who portray french and german world war i soldiers. we return to carlisle to learn what life was like for the 2 million american dough boys who served overseas. >> my name is michael mccloskey. i'm here to talk about what the american average soldier from the merp expeditionary soldier would have thought, felt, carried, that sort of thing. what we have here to start with, this is the 1910 haversack. this is what we would call a knapsack or backpack today, but this was the -- what all of the soldiers would have carried, everything they would have needed, at least according to the united states government's view. in the back here you have -- then to open the pack, you would unattach a buckle beneath the front flap. and then you wou

. >> in the weeks ahead we'll hear from helen bentley, barbara kennelly, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch "oral history" sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. >> each week, american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and historic sites around the country. next we visit the smithsonian national air and space museum to learn about stone carvings created in trenches and bunkers by world war i soldiers and only recently rediscovered. our guide's photographs of the carvings are featured in the exhibit. >> hello, my name is dr. jeff guessky, i'm a national geographic photographer, emergency physician, explorer and television host. welcome to the smithsonian national air and space museum and to artist soldiers which is an exhibit on world war i commemorating the 00-year anniversary of world war i. we're seeing a small segment of this vast space which once held up to 4,000 world war i soldiers. it was occupied by the french and german and the french took it back and then the americans. and in this place soldiers from the maine national guard chwhic we

we will hear from eva clayton, helen bentley, barbie cannoli, nancy johnson, and lynn woolsey. watch oral history, sunday at 10 am eastern. on american history tv on c- span3. >>> next on american history tv. from our series 1968, america in turmoil, a look at liberal politics 50 years ago. lbj's great society and and liberal activist redefine the role of the federal government and challenge traditional values. the assassinations of martin luther king jr. and robert f kennedy

. >> we will hear from helen bentley, barbara cannoli, nancy johnson, and lynn woolsey. at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. a talk about mourning during the victorian era. she describes the rituals for men, women, and children when a family member died and how the civil war impacted radius norms. the gettysburg heritage center hosted this talk. any further introduction, i would like to present -- she has been a friend of mine for a number of years. ,or those of you not familiar she is a native new yorker and move to gettysburg 20 years ago. after managing to military history bookstores, she is happily retired and continues her research and writing and caring for a number of battlefield adopted position sites. today, she will speak to us about life in the midst of death, mourning rituals in 19th century america. thank you. [applause] happy to see so many familiar faces here today. before we start, i would like to thank the heritage center for this, and for c-span being here and filming this, and most especially kevin drake from gettysburg publishing,

. >> and in the weeks ahead, we'll hear from barbara kennelly, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >>> san diego state university professor pierre asseline teaches a class on the vietnam war looking at the conflict from the u.s. escalation from 1965 to the fall of saigon in 1975. on tuesday. no? everything -- i am that good, aren't i, right? so, so do you, i want you guys to pay especially good attention today because as it turns out, this is the only thing i'm actually qualified to teach. i didn't know there was a war in korea until i read the textbook with you guys. but the vietnam war, that's that's kind of my thing. and so i've tried to present relatively kind of concise history of the war and hopefully it makes some sense to you. so on tuesday we're talking about how starting in 1964, as a result of developments in hanoi, north vietnam under, under its new leader, it esclas to a point where by late '64 we have a state of war in southern vietnam. we have big wars, as i mentioned. in, in southern vietnam. and then at that point the position of the a

. >> and in the weeks ahead, we'll continentally,ra nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. oral histories, sunday at americanastern on history t.v. on c-span 3. c-span. where history unfolds daily. 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of house, thehe white supreme court, and public policy in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. dinner held by the ohio republican party, president trump encouraged activists to work on voter

announcer: in the weeks ahead, we will hear from nancy johnson and lynn woolsey.atch oral histories sunday at 10 a.m. eastern on american history tv, on c-span3. c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and you.y issues that impact coming up sunday morning, christian science monitor white house correspondent linda susman and newsmax white house correspondent john gilby discuss .he future of the trump presidency rebecca zimmerman discusses the future of afghanistan. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live 7:00 eastern on monday morning. join >> next, and how it talks about her book oss operation blackmail, one woman's covert war against the imperial japanese army which chronicles elizabeth betty mcintosh is 18 months of psychological warfare in china, burma, and india during world war ii. the national world war ii museum in new orleans posted this event. it's just under an hour. >> good evening, ladies and don't unwelcome to the national world war ii museum. i would like to offer a spec

. >> and in the weeks ahead, we hear from barberton alley, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. sunday at histories 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. joining us from columbus serves asas would who an assistant professor of political science coming here to talk to us about conspiracy theories and people directly associated to it. could you talk to us about your study of conspiracy theory? decade, my associate and i became very interested in what we suspected would be a fringe element of american public opinion and we started off as students in the realm of american public opinion, we thought this would be a media success story. be responding and reflecting the political considerations of the presence in the media of their choice. mediad, modest consumption differences that relate to the kind of conspiracy theories american survey respondents expressed, and it was also the scope of conspiracy believe. we imagined this would the responsibility of a fringe element but through some subscription of narratives have been incredibly widespread in the american public.

. >> in the weeks ahead, we will hear from barbara tonelli, lindsay johnson and lynn woolsey.americanistories history tv on c-span3. join us for book tv's live coverage of the national book festival next saturday starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern. our coverage includes your collins from our set -- call ins frur

. >> and in the weeks ahead we'll hear from helen bentley, barbara kennelly, nancy johnson and lynn woolseytch "oral histories" sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. america first was a term started during the 1916 presidential election when woodrow wilson used the slogan as well as he kept us out of war. next, historians talk about how america first thinking impacted u.s. foreign policy in the cold war, between 1945 and 1968. they talk about international trade policy, the rise of anti-communism and how conservative commentators came into prominence. the miller center in charlottesville, virginia, hosted this talk. it's an hour and a half. >> so,

. >> in the weeks ahead we will hear from barbara kelly, nancy johnson, and will -- lynn woolsey. watch oral histories on the at 10 am eastern on american history tv on c-span three. claire mack

. >> and in the weeks ahead, we'll hear from helen bentley, barbara canali, nancy johnson, and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories sunday on c-span3. >>> each week american artifacts takes you to mu # see museums. next we take you to dearborn, michigan. transportation coordinator matt anderson shows us early vehicles made by

. >> in the weeks ahead, we will hear from helen bentley, nancy johnson, and lynn woolsey.watch oral histories sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span-3. >>.org department produced seven 1945.between 1942 and to explain the causes course of the war to u.s. army troops. frank capra supervised production of the "why we fight" series, using a team of army corps technicians and hollywood veterans. america, divide and conquer. the documentary details military aggression by germany after the september 1, 1939 invasion of poland. using animated maps created at disney studios, newsreels, traumatized scenes, a nd nazi and u.s. army footage, "fight and conquer" covers the invasions of denmark, norway, belgium, holland, and france.

fromncer: we will hear robert canales, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. announcer: the franklin d. roosevelt residential library did your a unique film collection and joining us on the phone is library

. >> in the weeks ahead, we will hear from -- helen bentley, barbara cannoli, nancy johnson., lynn woolsey. watch oral histories. sunday at 10 am eastern on american history tv on c-span three. >>> lectures in history. princeton university professor julian zelizer teaches a class on the growth of conservative influence over u.s. foreign policy in the 1970s. following the vietnam war, american presidents richard nixon to jimmy carter favorite and easing of relations called ditente with the soviet union and communist china. the rising conservative movement, professor zelizer explains, pushed for a more hawkish approach to communism. and ultimately found a champion in ronald reagan. president reagan challenged the centrist policies of republican incumbent gerald ford in the 19pr

. >> in the weeks ahead we'll hear from eva clayton, helen bentley, barbara kennelly, and lynn woolseytch american history tv on c-span3. >> next, from our series, 1968, america in turmoil, a look back at conservative politics 50 years ago. perceived liberal excesses and disenchantment with the government gave rise to the resurgence of richard nixon and a republican presidential victory. ronald reagan made his debut as a presidential candidate. our guests to discuss conservative politics are robert mary editor of the american conservative and author of where they stand, the american presidents in the eyes of the voters and historian, matthew delick, george washington university professor and the school of political management. he's the author of the right moment, ronald reagan's first victory and the decisive turning point in american politics. first, here's richard nixon accepting the republican nomination for president at the gop national convention in miami beach, august 8, 1968. >> we make history tonight, not for ourselves, but for the ages. the choice we make in 1968 will determi

. >> in the weeks ahead, we will hear from sue myrick, helen bentley, barbara kennelly, and lynn woolsey. atch world histories, sunday 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. q&a,nday night on congressional historian spre -- congressional historians. >> one of the questions that i do people ask all the time, is this the most uncivil time in history. >> if you are going to pick another period, the years leading to the civil war when a host member caned another senator because he disagreed with what he said and a lot of senators cheered on the host member. hot by the sitting vice president of the united states which is pretty dramatic. we have had terrible times. >> there was one brawl in 1858 to before the civil war that 80 members rolling around on the floor fighting one another. one of the members who had a wig, one of the members pulled it off during the fight, and someone else yelled, he scalped im, and that was enough levity to stop the fight. [laughter] >> congressional historians sunday night at 8:00 eastern on &a.span's q >> earlier today, president trump met with in

. >> in the weeks ahead we will hear from barbara kelly, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories, sunday at 10 am eastern on american history tv, on c-span three. >>> coming up tonight american history tv and primetime features our series lectures in history. we will look at lectures on the reconstruction area with brandeis university professor abigail cooper on african americans during the reconstruction era and how former slaves fought for economic rights and full citizenship including the right to vote. >> next, abigail cooper teaches a class on african americans during the reconstruction era. her lesson looks at how former slaves fought for economic rights in full citizenship, including the right to vote, make contracts, and choose where they worked. this is about 50 minutes.>>> slavery to freedom revisited. radicals and roots. they talk about the leaden -- latin of radicalism and roots. it's almost a cli