we have come along way since the quadricycle and the model t.plished much, but the achievements to come will dwarf our own. the american road stretches ahead of us towards a new horizon. we are all traveling along that road, all moving ford towards an even better tomorrow. ♪ >> interested in american history tv? visit our website, c-span.org/history to see our upcoming schedule or watch a recent program. artifacts, wrote to the white house rewind, lectures and history and more at c-span.org/history. up next from the international spy museum, the story of slave and revolutionary wars fight games lafayette. general,or a french james lafayette posed as an escaped slave to infiltrate british camps. jamestown-yorktown foundation curator katherine egner gruber describes how the enslaved patient gain the trust of benedict arnold and general cornwallis, and how the information together to help the american cause at the decisive battle of yorktown in 1781. the smithsonian associates and international spy museum

1896er cycle -- quadricycle. muddyarly 20th century lanes to the highways of the 1950's. ♪ >> the old road was not only a road, it was a way of life, slow and often rough. ♪ >> if you lived way out in the country, 15 or 20 miles from the railroad station, you had to get up before dawn to catch the 9:30 train. for the next two hours, the carriage went creaking down the old, familiar road while the countryside moved slowly past. if you were leaving the farm for good, to go to the city, you had mixed feelings on that long ride to the station. it is not easy to pull up roots and start a new life. use saw the faces of old friends as you passed their houses, waving goodbye, and you felt sad leaving them. but you felt to, how old and tired they looked, locked on the land. a woman looked 50 before she was 35. in a way, you were glad you were leaving. you past the old schoolhouse and you remembered the long miles you walk morning after morning to get there. that final run to get inside before the bell stopped clinging. --

in 1953ican road is ford motor company developed of its first car, then 1890 six 1896er cycle -- quadricycleddyarly 20th century lanes to the highways of the 1950's. ♪ >> the old road was not only a road, it