listen -- next time you meet on friday, it will be back over in morrill hall and we will be doing an artifact analysis of garments from the 20th century to try to identify which garment fits into which decade. so, that's friday. hope to see you then. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] caption content and accuracy.>> you are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook at c-span history. on american history tv, cornell university history professor fred logevall talks about how policymakers use and misuse the past. he cites a number of analogies and how they have been used by contemporary policymakers including neville chamberlain's pre-world war ii appeasement policies and the vietnam war. southern methodist university hosted this event. it is about 80 minutes. host: my main purpose is to introduce you to professor fred logevall, a professor of histo