dropped a second atomic bomb on nagasaki three days later. japanese em por ear hirohito announced surrender on august 15th, 1945, with the formal surrender ceremony taking place on september 2nd aboard the uss missouri in tokyo bay ending world war ii. american history tv and c-span's washington journal were live to look at the strategic situation in the war leading up to the bombings. president harry truman's decision to use the new weapon and the legacy of those atomic attacks. next you'll hear from ian toll, author of "twilight of the gods, war in the western pacific, 1944, 1945" anded in an hour by harry truman's grandson, clifton truman daniel. >>> a short time ago, an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. that bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of tnt. the japanese began the war from the air at pearl harbor. they have been repaid many fold. and the end is not yet. with this bomb, we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction so supplement the growing power of our

i assume nagasaki as well. have you ever spoken to a former crew members of the airplanes that dropped the bombs the ebola gay? on >> no, i have never spoken to anyone who is on that plane. >> what malaria gallup new mexico good morning. >> good morning. i'm with the navajo nation and i want to say a little piece here regarding the navajo code talkers code talkers. my father served in the gilbert islands over jima nagasaki and -- the navajo code talkers were formed and informed, you heard that term fat cat a and little big boy that the navajo were working in the south pacific headquarters company and they were told that there would be something going to happen in the wind. that was the message that was sent out. after all the events of the bombing that happen, the forces were broken down and some of the no navajo code talkers were sent into nagasaki and hiroshima confiscating the weapons, guarding the streets, and distributing food and clothing. that was the role of the navajo. the message that they sent after

nagasaki, that's another time. you don't get too much of that. the thing i get mostly is what we are doing here. people ask about it. for me, there's no question about it. it was a strange series of circumstances. i was just standing at the right place at the right time every damn time, and i ended up in this thing. so. you're watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend and on holidays to only on c-span 3. weeknights this month we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span 3. the u.s. capital has been home to the house and senate since 1800 but it's their home districts in states that send members to washington d.c.. on tuesday, c-span cities tour takes a look at pivotal politicians as we travel the nation in search of their stories. watch tuesday night, beginning at 8:00 eastern. enjoy american history tv, this week and every weekend on c-span 3. august 9th marks 75 years since the united states dropped a second atomic bomb on japan, devastating the city of nagasaki three days a

so the mission was changed to nagasaki. i often think, i've been saying this to students for 30 years as a university professor, the and luckiest city on earth. really by nothing more than an accident of weather and a bit of chance, nagasaki we see the second atomic bombing. >> the battleship missouri, 53,000 ton flagship of admiral hall sees third fleet. it becomes the scene of an unforgettable ceremony, marking the complete and foremost or render of japan. in the bay of tokyo itself, united states destroyer new cannon comes alongside bringing representatives of the allied powers to witness the final capitulation. general of the army, douglas mcarthur, supreme allied commander for the occupation of japan boards the missouri. fleet admiral nimitz, pacific fleet commander and general hala c welcome mcarthur and his general of staff, sullivan, on board. he's escorted to the deck with a 20-minute ceremony is to take place. it is sunday september 2nd, 1945. >> right now, we are on the oh one level of the battleship missouri. it

one place i take them is a museum in nagasaki. that museum is entirely dedicated to japanese atrocities. to americans but mostly otherations. what people have to keep in their minds was that japanese were victims but also victimizers. so while american students have to deal with their guilt for 1952, japanese have to deal with their guilt and responsibility. nets the american government nor japanese government has dealt well with their history. one country that's taken responsibility for their past in a much more consciousable way is germany. japanese hasn't done it under shinzo abe and the united states hasn't. tried to have an honest historical exhibit in 195. maybe now we're getting ready to have this discussion in a way that we did it. >> let's go to brian in east massachusetts. good morning. >> caller: good morning. thanks for letting me speak. >> yes. >> caller: i have some questions about the personalities. in the comment we see an ill looking franklin roosevelt with stalin and winston churchill. i'm wondering if they had m

we blew nagasaki to smithereens. nagasaki is built back completely by the japanese. a beautiful city. detroit got ruined a little later than that and it is still ruined. it was something. when those people, when the japanese knew what happened to them, all they wanted to do was put things back together. and that surrender was by the emperor, it was not by anybody else. he just made up his mind when he saw what those two bombs did. of course, they thought we had more. we didn't have more. we had one more but it wasn't ready. if he was not going to see another bomb land on his country. so, that's when he quit. >> there is something you mentioned too before you wrote a note. you mentioned something about a ceremony for some big wheels. eugene: oh, that's what you mean -- >> [indiscernible] eugene: he was the embedded reporter. we were in the tin building adjacent to the pit where the bomb had been loaded. and all the main characters were in there writing a note on the bomb before it was dropped into the pit. and lawrence was with the new york times, i believe. he sat th

and also why did nagasaki, the bomb drop get kind of pushed aside? >> it's odd, and i think it has to do with the secrecy that surrounded hanford for so long even during the cold war. at that point people knew more about oak ridge and places like los alamos. some of it's just timing. the hiroshima bomb was first. but it is mysterious, as i say at the very beginning of my book. i make the case in this book that hanford's really the most important place in the history of the nuclear age. the development of large scale nuclear reactors that occurred there, the production of this new element on a large scale, the development of the material that now serves as a trigger for our nuclear weapons and their rapid expansion of hanford during the cold war, there were all kinds of things that happened at hanford that really have not gotten the attention they deserve. there's been many, many books written about the manhattan project, and one of the things that excited me about writing this book was i would actually be able to talk about things that hadn't been wr

the first one there is hiroshima and the fourth one listed is nagasaki. the second point says that the additional bombs will be delivered as soon as they are made ready by project staff. we found out later that in the early part of august, only two moms were ready and they used both of them. the third bomb was and probably going to be ready until around the 16th or 17th of august. the third point is that he dissemination of any information about this is reserved for the secretary of war and the president. so the military are not going to make any comment about this. any new stories, any people asking for information, they need to refer back to the secretary of war for them to respond to. the last point is that this is done with the approval of the secretary of war which i mentioned before is stimson and the chief of staff. it also mentions that a copy has been sent to general mcarthur and a copy has been sent to admiral nimitz. this is the closest you are going to get for the actual orders of the dropping of the bond on hiroshima. that is updated the 25th

most of the people in nagasaki died from burns. same in hiroshima. nagasaki, most died from burns. what you are looking at an a picture of nagasaki is the picture of what happens to a you explode a modern thermonuclear weapon. the h-bomb with a percussion cap. eisenhower inherited roughly a-bombs.-- 1000 when he left office, we had 21,000 nuclear weapons, mostly h-bombs. inorked under eisenhower then kennedy960, came in, inherits 21,000. nixon, 27,000. a much smaller number of russians at that point. 13-year-oldrom my -- in a nuclear era come to be, as i have alluded to right now -- it's in the book -- working on war plans, which i was? i was told, i had a top-secret clearance in 1958, i was 27, that the russians were, had a program of icbms. they were a little bit ahead of us in testing and icbm -- an ic bm, and as hitler's would have done if he had the bombs, had icbms, was working night and day to have the ability to wipe out our strategic air command and have an arsenal of nuclear weapons, would have won the world that, essentially, and wipe us out in the process. with these mi

. >>> next we turn to this photo book called testimonials from nagasaki.0 years ago it features images of people who survived the atomic bomb attack. the book was long out of print but the photographers f feel no is the time for the stories to be known again. >> reporter: the pictures were taken by a group of amateur photographers. the leader of the group was in his 30s at the time. he was not particularly skilled at photography but hoped to portray his subjects as intimately as possible. this woman w wro poems about her experience as a survir was ee of his models. she always wore a wign public after losing her hair after exposure to nuclear radiation. for this, she made an exception. >> i asked her to take her hat off when i photographed this. as she was taking it off, she said, i'm a woman, also. and her eyes swelled up with tears. i'm so grateful to her for enduring such humiliation to pose for this >> reporter: the leader of a civic movement organized by the survivors also posed. he agreed to be photographed taking a bath. >> translator: though some of

nagasaki he thinks it's a criminal action. he knows he will cover it but not exactly how just yet. then he has lunch with william shah and talk about the coverage so what happened to the human beings from the mushroom cloud? nobody was reporting on that. it is likely that they knew the extent or some of the restrictions on foreign and japanese reporters. allied former wartime friends and colleagues so they probably knew he would not paddle boat from guam but have to get military clearance. so he starts a major trip starting in china and then apply for clearance and accredited in china and then we establish himself with the military there to get into tokyo. and it works. and there are certain restrictions with that. >> the reporters have less freedom because everyone expects you to perform to the needs of the military. but at the same time the whole business vietnam they wanted to keep reporters away as far as humanly possible. >> it was the buddy system and that gave huge advantage because he was with the military during the war. he had written growing profiles. he was a commended

summer of 1945, the united states dropped two atomic bombs on japan, one august 6 and the other nagasaki on august 9. in this recorded history by the national world war ii museum, army veteran eugene disabatino talks about his assignment to the manhattan project which included the assigned at los alamos and watching over the bomb being dropped on nagasaki. the national world war ii museum provided the video. eugene: well, i was born in wilmington, delaware. and basically, i grew up in

that definitely helps the cause even though hiroshima and nagasaki were restricted topics, they werests coming and going into japan. hersey had been seen as a relatively innocuous à >> liable man works exactly. company man still. >> he gets from china, he gets to japan. >> when he gets to hiroshima, tell us about how he does that, the extraordinary step forward is that he talks to people rather than reporting on events, how does he begin to find the people who will form this spine of the great pc right? >> that was an incredibly important departure and it might seem obvious now to focus on a few individuals to bring out the human element of the story but it was pretty revolutionary then. especially because what he was proposing to do was humanize japanese victims and japanese were enemy number two because they attacked us directly. when hersey eventually is admitted to tokyo Ãbhe did not have free reign there just because he sent the company man, he's not being monitored by staff, which is macarthur's operation there. the fbi knows he's on the ground to notify the fbi dc. at the same

he felt bad about what it portended for humanity and nagasaki he felt was a total criminal action.he thought that the memory of what happened at your oshima is what had kept the world safe from subsequent use of nuclear weapons. whether that's true or not i think we can definitely say it's beenan element and it has been a deterrent . it's actually a controversial opinion. that's your oshima didn't have to happen to prevent future hiroshima's but it did help. personal feelings are that i still have found the then government argument about why they drop a demonstration bomb in an uninhabited area i find that to be inadequate. >> that was oppenheimer, did you know. that was oppenheimer's desire to announce it after the fact that they should have dropped it at least on an uninhabited area , a shipyard or a purely unpopulated zone. >> they had pressedjunkets in bikini , they could have had a press junket and dropped it in an uninhabited area one of the arguments, in the retort was that when they have assembled the world even in light of if it didn't work that it would have been discredi

the second, nagasaki, japan sued for peace. and steel are turned into gas. ♪ and now, still from six miles distance, another picture of the same explosion. [explosion] in war, atomic power can level an entire elation -- entire nation in a few days. opens limitless horizons. on the eighth day of august, three days after the one dropped on hiroshima, the soviet union declared war on the japanese empire. this participation had long been anticipated by the big three. assured, marshal stalin roosevelt and churchill that sup that following the surrender of germany, russia would enter the war in the pacific and it was estimated it would take three months from v-e day for the red army to move the necessary supplies to each and -- eastern front. seasoned troops, veterans of stalingrad, and a drive across europe to berlin smashed over the manchurian border and hammered back the crack troops of the japanese army. ♪ >> i have received this afternoon a message from the toanese government in reply the message forwarded to that government by

. >> august marked the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki.astern time, we look back with author .an told --toll here is a preview. >> at that point, japanese strength was down to its last drop. it is true as the caller: that essentially were pouring all of their remaining strength, military strength and civilian population, they were preparing to meet the invasion and fight us tooth and nail. you had women and children are being organized into militias. being trained how to fight with bamboo spears, being told to use kitchen knives if necessary. avoiding an invasion of japan was absolutely critical, and i think it was so critical that if it was true you could say the choice was bomb two cities with an atomic bomb or launch a bloody invasion. it was one or the other. if that was true, i think using the bombs exactly the way that cities without prior explicit warning, i think you could defend that. the traditional way in which americans have understood the atomic bomb is this forced binary, where you choose either hit the cities without warning

. >> august marked the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki.astern, we look back with author ian toll. here's a preview. , japanese point strength was down to its last drop. but it is true, as the caller says, that the japanese were essentially pouring all of their remaining strength and military and their civilian population, they were preparing to meet the invasion and fight us, as she says, tooth and nail. you had women and children even being organized into militias, being trained how to fight with told to uses, being kitchen knives if necessary. an invasionvoiding of japan was absolutely critical . and i think it was so critical that if it was true that really, if you could say the choice was cities-- was to bomb two or launch a bloody invasion, if it was one or the other, i think if that was true, i think using the bombs exactly the way we did, hitting cities without a prior explicit warning, i do think you could defend that. the traditional way in which americans have understood the atomic bombings sets up this kind of forced binary wher

but he does end up going on the second flight, the nagasaki flight. describes of the first-person witness the detonation of the second atomic bomb in warfare he's a great character and it's a delight to think about, how do you describe the first atomic bomb blast? how do you describe seeing an atomic bomb take out a city? he does it masterfully. >> the surprising thing it's almost like a postscript that you wrote about was that i guess there was a movement several years later to pull the pulitzer prize from him and the new york times because of the arrangement that had been made at the time i thought, i would've chose that. an interesting story, what had happened was, during that period of time he was behind the scenes he was on the government payroll. there was just a different sort of relationship in terms of people, the media, the country, it was much more of a sense that we are all in this together that obviously has ended at a certain point i think in the 50s maybe the 60s that he went to the times and said, basically he was riding government pre

eastern, august marks the anniversary of the bombing of here shema and nagasaki.e look back at the events that led to the bombing and their legacy with ian troll and president truman's grandson, exploring the american story. tv thiserican history labor day history tv is on c-span3 every weekend, and all our programs are archived on our website at c-span.org/history. watch lectures and college classrooms, tours of historic sites, archival films, and see our schedule of programs at c-span.org/history. bookshelf,"history erik larson talks about his book, "isaac's storm: a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history." and come of the writing and research behind it creation. it chronicles the life of scientist isaac cline and the galveston, texas hurricane of 1900, which killed more than 6000 residents and destroyed 3700 building and remains -- buildings and remains the nation's deadliest disaster. this program was recorded in 2000, shortly ahead of the anniversary of the storm. thank you, for joining us. i see some familiar faces. did anybody get real -- get u

august mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. monday at 8 pm eastern time, we look back with author ian toll. here's a preview. >> that point, japanese strength was kind of down to its last draw. but it is true as the caller says that the japanese were essentially pouring all of the remaining strength and military strength into their civilian population who are preparing to meet the invasion to fight us, as she says tooth and nail. women and children even being organized into militias, being trained how to fight with bamboo spears, being told to use kitchen knives if necessary. so i think avoiding an invasion of japan was very critical. i think it was so critical that if it was true that really if you could say the choice was bomb two cities with an atomic bomb or launch a bloody invasion, is one of the other one door a or derby, i think that was true, using the bombs exactly the way we did, that is hitting cities without prior source of warning, i think you can defend. the traditional way in which americans have understood the u

. >> august marked the 75th anniversary of the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki. monday we look back with author you and told. -- with the author. here is a preview. >> at that point, japanese strength was down to it/drop. , the japanese were essentially pouring all of the remaining strength, military strength and their civilian population. they were preparing to meet the invasion to fight tooth and nail. you had women and children being --anized into malicious being trained tied a fight with bamboo spears. i have been told they used kitchen knives is necessary. i think avoiding an invasion of japan was absolutely critical. i think it is so critical that if it is true, you can say the choice was to bomb to cities with an atomic bomb or launch a bloody invasion, it was one of the other. i think if that were true, using the bombs exactly the way we did, that is hitting cities without prior explicit warning, i do think you could defend that. way in whichtional americans have understood the atomic bombings sets up that force binary or you have to cities being hit with

and august marked the 75th anniversary of the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. look back with arthur ian toll. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this labor day weekend on c-span 3. >> you're watching american history tv. every weekend on c-span 3 explore our nation's past and brought to you today by your television provider. >> now on american history tv from gillferred technical community college in north carolina a history class about civil war weaponry such as muskets, carbines and revolvers. the professor describes technological advances that allowed soldiers to fire faster and with more accuracy. >> all right, guys. how are y'all doing today? welcome to class. today as i talked about a little bit earlier this week we have a special lecturer here. you may have a class with him. he is the chair of our history and political science here at gillford technical community college. what you may not know about the doctor is that he's a military historian. he's an expert in military history. he has published at least four books on anything from

. >>> in our final story, we meet a survivor of the atomic bombing of nagasaki who runs a unique photographyusing on that specific moment in time and what the horrors of war can take from us. ♪ ♪ >> that's all for today's "newsline in depth." thank you for watching and see you again next time. >> coronavirus is on the verge of claiming the one millionth life nearly nine months to the day after it was first reported. this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up, fighting between armenia and azerbaijan intensifies. casualties are reported in the battle over nagorno-karabakh. trump on the defensive over his taxes. do democrats have a nbewew line of attack? >> we have seen no sanctions, no pressure. >>

august marks the 75th anniversary of the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. american history tv and washington journal look back to the events with author ian toll and president truman's grandson. exploring the american story, watch american history tv this labor day weekend on c-span 3. you're watching american history tv. every weekend on c-span 3 explore our nation's past. c-span 3, created by america's cable television companies as a public service and brought to you today by your television provider. >> we continue with lectures in history on c-span 3 with an emory university history professor teaching a class about the california gold rush of the mid 1800s and how people traveled to california, the physical geography of the area and evolving technology used to mine gold. >> good morning everybody. the topic of our lecture is the history of the gold rush and i will talk mainly about california in the years following 1848. but gold played a very, very important role in american history. think back to the conquistadors, one of the things they were fascinat

anniversary of the bombings of he hiroshima and nagasaki. we look back at the events that led to the bombing. exploring the american story, watch american history tv, this labor day weekend, on c-span3. >>> up next on lectures in history, university of minnesota professor teaches a class about neutrality and what that concept meant in america. she talks about how the u.s. viewed itself as the defender of democracy yet faced criticism for how it treated its own dissenters. >> good morning, everyone. this morning we're going to be talking about -- we will begin our conversation about neutrality. that will last over the course of several lectures. we'll wrap up other countries' neutralities. but we're going to focus on what neutrality looked like and meant for the americans, especially in the first half of the war. so the thing that i want you to understand the most, and this is really vital, because it's -- it's a very different understanding of neutrality than we have today. neutrality at the beginning of the war did not mean inactivity. it d

nagasaki. e we lowe look back at the even is led to the bombings with ian tall and president truman's grandson. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this . >> on lectures in history, davidson college professor sally mcmillen teaches a class about the polio epidemic in the united states. beginning with a major outbreak in 1916 in brooklyn, new york, that killed more than 6,000 people. the professor examines efforts by franklin roosevelt to help find a crew by starting the march of dimes organization. in addition, she details the efforts that led to the 1955 announcement of a successful vaccine created bid dr. jonah sulk. >> this history course looks at responses to disasters in american history with an emphasis on research and writing. over the semester, we've examined various disasters. first of all the psychological and physical problems at jamestown, disaster sermons in responses to fires, hurricanes and epidemics in colonial america, famine suffered by the donner party, th

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and americans were also killed after the atomic bombings on hiroshima and nagasaki on the 6th the 9th of august $9045.00 japan finally capitulated on the usa 1st because of a nationwide reaction to a victory a while back press conference president calderon gives a long awaited announcement i've been this reply april acceptance of the pop than declaration which specifies the on conditional surrender of japan admitting to the as proud box reporters better than yours while waiting work while the east coast to the west americans billions that i've been waiting to go completely while. on the 2nd to september 1945 the japanese government formalized its surrender on a u.s. warship. to this day the past weighs heavily on japan of course kiting. inflecting on our past and bearing in mind the feelings of deep remorse i earnestly hope that the ravages of war will never be repeated. though japan surrender brought to an end perhaps the darkest chapter in its history for both perpetrators and victims the atrocities of the past live on. so what shadows do there cast on modern japan jeff gangster new

this year marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. this armament is of vital importance for ensuring global peace and security. in contrast to the architecture of arms control has suffered significant damage in recent years. the international community must move forward on the basis of equality and justice in this regard eliminating all weapons of mass destruction. another important issue where we have an obligation to act together is climate change. we see how human interference in the balance of nature can lead to heavy cost. we must stop and reverse this bad course. as turkey and we sincerely support the efforts in this struggle and fulfill our obligations even though we have an almost negligible historical responsibility at this point. in the recent past we hosted the conference of the parties to the united nations conventions to combat certification. we have conducted food folk operation with many regions in countries especially in africa. we also undertook to host the 16th conference of the parties to the convention on biologica

august mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic borrowings of not hiroshima and nagasaki. we look back at this strategic situation in the wars pacific theater leading up to the bottom's and the decision to use them and the end of world war ii. at 10:05 eastern, seven five pacific, army veteran eugene disappear tina talks about his assignment to the manhattan project being station at los alamos and drop working on the bomb dropped over nagasaki. >> and this evening, we are pleased to have to distinguish speakers scholars with us and dialog about the red summer of 1919. we will have a discussion between our guests followed by a brief q and a should there be time for us to do that. and so pleased tonight to introduce two of our friends and colleagues the first being doctor sage matt foul. doctor mouth i was an associate professor of history at the university of minnesota. she is currently just finishing up a faculty fellowship at harvard fellowship harvard university's in history. she owned a joint ph.d. in history in african americans studies at yale university and specializ

shamus 74 millimeters of rain before the west on cecil from we saw 199 millimeters affright in and nagasaki now that west of whether or making its way a little further race with say further heavy showers long spells of rain coming into 100 sheep brought the skies come back in behind lexia showers sunshine and showers there for north and south korea over the next couple days although the korean peninsula should brighten up a little more as we go on into monday 26 celsius in seoul some a temperature there for beijing so very heavy rain coming in here mind she all monday heavy showers too into southern parts of china joining up the showers across india china some heavy downpours there pushing into the northeast of india but 2 distinct areas of cloud one across the eastern side of india and over towards the west some heavy showers there into kind of dhaka pushing down into carolina and this circulation bringing some big downpours into under the dash there gnashing their way further northwards as we go into monday. but. in response to global warming germany is gradually shutting down its coal in

was to be a matching pair in tokyo we were left out because we be called on the carpet because of nagasaki and hiroshima but there was no question that the japanese have dropped all kinds of evil on china in the thirties before the world war but they were the world leaders of this technology in part of this story is the united states caught on and using the japanese in some fashion. and they did a beautiful job to tell the story and it was indispensable book. i'm sorry she has gone. >> and the wife who is also a major figure in this book because they are both so important. what she chronicled other people have talked about to have as many japanese as possible the work times trial should take place so they held their own work crimes trial it is the appalling book it's an absolute transcript and the japanese scientist said it was an amazing book actually so the russians were upset and worried and frightened of the united states and meanwhile it had teams of experts interviewing all the japanese savants of biological weaponry to figure out how best to take what they had learned so it's pricel

and we mark the 75th anniversaries of the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki.merican tv in washington journal look back at the events that led to the bombing and explore the, american story. watch american history tv this labor day weekend on c-span3. >> next, the author of "the second line of defense: american women and world war i" talks about her book. she examines the different roles women played during the conflict, including their participation in the workforce and their use in media and propaganda. the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri hosted this event and provided a video. matthew: this evening, we are thrilled to have our guest with us. dr. lynn dumenil with us. lynn, thank you for making the journey. she'll have a conversation with us, make a presentation for 45 minutes, after which there will be a q&a time. there will be microphones on each side. camille will help navigate that. and if those of you who are unable to come to the microphone, just let her know and we can accommodate that. then afterwards, there is a book

eastern, august marked the 75th anniversary of the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. and american history tv look back at the events that led to the bombings and their legacy. with president truman's grandson. exploring the american story. watch american history tv. this labor day weekend on c-span3. >>> on lectures in history, chapman university history professor jennifer keene looks at myths about america's involvement in world war i including the misconceptions the u.s. was not involved in europe prior to entering the war or that world war i failed to have a lasting impact on american society. this class is about an hour, 20 minutes. >> all right. so today we're going to talk about america during the first world war. and i've called this lecture "americans at war: the myth busters edition." and i did that kind of intentionally. because when we think about understanding the first world war in general, there are so many myths and misconceptions that are attached to the war that it's really interesting for us to first understand why those myths exist and then to unpam

british duchesse trail ians and americans were also killed after the atomic bombings on hiroshima and nagasaki on the 6th the 9th of august 945 japan finally capitulated on the usa because of a nationwide reaction to a victory back press conference president calderon gives a long awaited announcement i then there's your ply april acceptance of the pops than by. aeration i specified the surrender. to the gallows pound box does yours while waiting work on the east coast of the west american millions that i've been waiting. a while. on the 2nd get so 10 men 145 the japanese government formalized it surrender on a u.s. warship. to this day the past weighs heavily on japan. but. like reflecting on our past and bearing in mind the feelings of deep remorse i earnestly hope that the ravages of war will never be repeated sinking 80 . 3rd japan surrender brought to an end perhaps the darkest chapter in its history for both perpetrators and victims the atrocities of the past live on. so what shadows do there cast on modern japan just kingston is director of asian studies at temple university in tokyo and

august mark ed the 75th anniversary of the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. and american history tv and the "washington journal" look back to the events that led to the bombing with ian toll and president truman's grandson. exploring the american story. watch american history tv. this labor day weekend on cspan 3. >> coming up on american history tv, robert childs of the university of maryland, talks about labor and social unrest at the turn of the 20th sempblry. he describes the tension over

august mark ed the 75th anniversary of the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. and american history tv and the "washington journal" look back to the events that led to the bombing with ian toll and president truman's grandson. exploring the american story. watch american history tv. this labor day weekend on cspan 3. >> coming up on american history tv, robert childs of the university of maryland, talks about labor and social unrest at the turn of the 20th sempblry. he describes the tension over working knconditions. >> welcome back, everybody. as you know, we've been in the guilded age for some time now. and we've already scene the technological innovations that made some of this economic expansion possible. we saw both the economic transformations and the effects of those changes in the economy as far as lifestyles, both of the very rich, these opulent robert barren lifestyles on the one hand on on the other hand, of the very poor. whether it was the people living in the shacks of the new england mill towns or whether it was when we explored the guild l age ci

. >> august marked the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of her row she may and nagasaki.ok back at this with ian 208. here's a preview. >> you know, at that point, you know, japanese strength was kind of down to its last drop. but it is true as the caller says that the japanese were essentially pouring all of their remaining strength, their military strength and their civilian population, they were preparing to meet the invasion and fight us -- as she said, tooth and nail. you had women and children being trained to fight with bamboo spears and being told to use kitchen knives if necessary. and so i think avoiding an invasion of japan was absolutely critical. and i think it was so critical that if it was true that really if you could say the choice was bomb two cities with an atomic bomb or launch a bloody invasion, is one or the other -- i think if that was true, i think using the bombs exactly the way we did, that is hitting cities without prior explicit warning -- i think you can defend that. the traditional way in which americans have understood the atomic bombings ha

. >> august marked the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern time we look back with an author. here's a preview. >> at that point japanese strength was kind of down to its last drop. but it is true as the caller says, that the japanese were essentially pouring all of their remaining strength, military strength and their civilian population, they were preparing to meet the invasion and to fight us, as she says tooth and nail. you had women and children being organized into militias, being trained how to fight with bamboo spears. being told to use kitchen knives if necessary. and so i think avoiding an invasion of japan was absolutely critical. and i think it was so critical that if it was true, that really if you could say the choice was bomb two cities with an atomic bomb or launch a bloody invasion, it was one or the other, i think if that was true, i think that using the bombs exactly the way we did, that is hitting cities without a prior explicit warning, i do think you could defend that. the traditional way in wh

dropped atomic bombs on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki 75 years ago last month. japan surrendered shortly afterwards, and in world war ii. up next on the presidency, education director marc adams shows items in the areas truman presidential library and museum collection to tell the story of president truman's decision to use the bo

eastern, august marked the 74th anniversary of the bombings of nagasaki and hiroshima. look back at the events that led to the bombings and their legacy with ian toll and clifton truman daniel. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this labor day weekend on c-span3. ♪ >> "the contenders" about the men who ran for the presidency but lost and changed history. barry goldwater. "the contenders," this week at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> you know, when you read the things that were said about thomas jefferson, you know, that he was an infidel and he was an agent of the french government sounds a little reminiscent, doesn't it? the things that were said about abraham lincoln, the things that were said about fdr, that he wanted to be a dictator. so, it does kind of come with the territory. but i think in trump's case, at least in the modern political era, post-world war ii, i've never seen anything like it. >> sunday at noon eastern on "in depth." our live two-hour conversation with author and faith and freedom coalition founder ralph reed, who's books inc

don't stoop crazy into hiroshima and nagasaki.as a given york of august of 195 cares about it has mixed feelings about hiroshima and think is going to end the war. i think is totally criminal action. he knows he's going to cover but he doesn't know exactly how just yet. and he has lunch with william shawn. they talk about the coverage. and they realized what he'd been again was a story about the human toll. what happened to the human beings when there is this huge mushroom crop cloud. it's likely that they knew the extent or some of the extent of the restrictions being placed in the japanese reporters in tokyo because the journalism community was very close to beckman. a lot of former worktime friends and colleagues, they probably knew that the only way in is a paddle from guam to japan. he had to get military clearance to get in. he's going to do a major reporting trip that starts first in china which is a country he was born in. and then apply for clearance is going to be accredited in china. having reestablished himself of the

eastern, august marks the 75th anniversary of the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki.l and president truman's grandson. exploring the american story, watch american history tv this labor day weekend on c-span 3. you're watching american history tv. every weekend on c-span 3 >> we continue with lectures in history on c-span 3 with an emory university history professor teaching a class about the california gold rush of the mid 1800s and how people traveled to california, the physical geography of the area and evolving technology used to mine gold. >> good morning everybody. the topic of our lecture is the history of the gold rush and i will talk mainly about california in the years following 1848. but gold played a very, very important role in american history. think back to the conquistadors, one of the things they were fascinating about was the quest for gold. an unquenchable desire for precious metals, gold above all,

block out in some face because we would have been called about the nuclear weapon we dropped on nagasaki and hiroshima. there's no question that the japanese had dropped all kinds of evil bugs on china before world war but the japanese, they were the world leaders in this technology and part of this story you're revealing or confirming is that the united states caught onto this and were using the japanese in some fashion in this whole project. have i got it right? this is a global monstrous story. >> and gene did a good job in telling the story, absolutely indispensable book and i'm sorry that she's gone and -- >> she would be incredible witness in this covid moment. >> she's -- she was the wife of matthew who is also a major figure in this book. i quote both of them in the book because they are both so important, but what she -- what she chronicled was the fact -- was something that other people have talked about too but she did the best job of it that there was a desperate attempt to get as many of the japanese germ warfares and get them away from russians and into american whoever orb

eastern, august marked the 75th anniversary of the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. exploring the american story, watch american history tv this labor day weekend on c-span3. >>> now, on american history tv from guilford technical community college, a history class about civil war weaponry such as muskets, combines and revolvers. the professor discusses advances in weaponry. >> how are you doing today? welcome to class. today as i talked about a little bit earlier this week, we have a special lecture here. you may have a class with the doctor, he's the chair of your history and political science program here at guilford technical community college. what you may not know

coming up tonight at 8 pm eastern august march the 75th anniversary of the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. american history tv in washington journal back at the events that led to the bombing and their legacy with author ian toll president truman's grandson, clifton truman daniels exploring the american story. what american history tv tonight on c-span3. >> good evening everyone and thank you so much for joining us area my name is bennett and i'm a bookseller and event coordinator and i'm going to be your host tonight for at-home literati field featuring miles party. before we get underway i want to explain a big thank you to everyone for your support of our virtual programming in particular. we feel incredibly lucky were able to continue to offer virtual events release through the difficult times and we wouldn't be able to do that and gather and hear about the intricacies it wasn't for you all showing and stopping by and continuing to be supported so that for doing that. i like to go over our zoom policies for event. we ask your video feed disabled for the duration of the event and if yo