Congress, Politics, Books
and American History

C-SPAN visited the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab in St. Leonard, Maryland to learn more about work at the facility. About eight million objects are housed at the "MAC Lab."

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C-SPAN visited the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum on Capitol Hill to learn about the protests that helped lead to the 19th Amendment.

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C-SPAN visits the Secret Service headquarters for an exclusive tour of the Secret Service museum which is typically closed to the public.

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Travel back to April 15, 1865—and the manhunt for Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. We visit the Center for Education and Leadership which opened this month across from Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC. It was there that John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln as he enjoyed the play “Our American Cousin.” We see the 35-foot tower of Lincoln books symbolizing one of the most documented lives in human history, and walk through exhibits that contemplate Lincoln’s life, death and legacy.

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Professor Allan Lichtman teaches a course on the modern American presidency. In this class he used slides as he lectured about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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A film biography about United States Army General Douglas MacArthur who served in World War II as Commander of the Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific.  MacArthur’s military career came to a close in 1951 when President Harry S. Truman relieved him of his command.

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The twenty-six-hundred-acre estate of Montpelier was once home to the nation’s fourth president , James Madison and his wife Dolley. It lies about 90 miles south of the nation’s capital in Orange County, Virginia. American History TV visited the site for a tour with Michael Quinn, president of the private non-profit Montpelier Foundation that manages the property.

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The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is located in what was once the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, the building from which Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Museum curator Gary Mack spoke to a tour group led by historian Richard Norton Smith about how the museum presents the information about the assassination and ensuing investigations.

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On May 14, 1607, 104 English settlers landed at Jamestown Island, Virginia to establish a colony for the Virginia Company.  Thought to be lost to history, the original fort was unearthed in 1994. We visited Jamestown to learn how the story of the 1607 settlers is being revealed everyday through the study of artifacts, and how artifacts are conserved for future scholars.

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Historian Frank Laumer speaks at a 175th anniversary commemoration of the Dade massacre that led to the outbreak of the Second Seminole War. The Second Seminole War, also known as the Florida War, took place in central Florida from 1835 to 1842 and was the first American war fought partially over the issue of slavery. The event was hosted by the Tampa Bay History Center.

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