Early on the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese submarines and carrier-based planes attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. This month marks the 70^th anniversary of the attack. Hear eyewitness accounts of Pearl Harbor veterans and survivors in this collection of interviews from an oral history project of the National Park Service.

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Early on the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese submarines and carrier-based planes attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, the Hawaiian site of one of the principal naval bases of the United States. This month marks the 70th anniversary of those attacks. We'll hear eyewitness accounts from a National Park Service oral history project with Pearl Harbor veterans and survivors, describing what they saw that day.

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Housing roughly 2.5 million historic artifacts, the Museum Resource Center collects, catalogues, and maintains items from National Park Service sites in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Director Bob Sonderman took American History TV on a tour of the warehouse to describe the holdings and the science behind historic preservation.

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Chief Historian of the National Park Service Robert Sutton discusses how his organization is telling history in new ways by including more information about civilians and non-military events.

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In this program from our 1999 "American Presidents: Life Portraits" series we focused on James Garfield's life and career. Historians discussed Garfield's military service, his election as president and assassination shortly after his inauguration. Suzanne Miller, the site manager at Garfield's home in Mentor, Ohio, talked about several of the artifacts and documents that Garfield left behind. 

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C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles take American History TV on the road. Throughout the weekend of May 18-20 we feature the history of Columbia, South Carolina.

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Thousands of colonists rejected the War for American Independence and many fled to the British stronghold of New York City. San Jose State University History Professor Ruma Chopra discusses the situation in the city and the perspective of those who looked upon the British as natural allies in religion, language and blood and thought the violence of rebellion was unnecessary and unlawful.

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This is a look at President Eisenhower’s views and actions in the area of civil rights, including the desegregation of the armed forces, his appointments of pro-civil rights Supreme Court justices and the dispatching of the 101st Airborne division to assist in the integration of Little Rock High School in Arkansas.  This discussion was part of a conference titled, “Ike Reconsidered: Lessons from the Eisenhower Legacy for the 21st Century,” co-hosted by Hunter College, City University of New York, the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute & the Eisenhower Foundation.

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American History TV visited San Francisco’s Chinatown to follow historian Charlie Chin as he tells the story of the Chinese in America to a group of college students. This is part one of a three-part series on San Francisco’s Chinatown. This portion of the series was recorded in the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum.
 

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Metropolitan State University professor Douglas Rossinow teaches a class on the Iran-Contra affair, which took place in the mid-1980s during the Reagan Administration. The Iran-Contra affair stems from Reagan administration officials funding the Contras - who were fighting against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua - with money from the sale of arms to Iran. The arms were being sold to Iran in the hope of gaining the release of American hostages held in Lebanon - hence the reason the affair is sometimes called as the “arm-for-hostages” scandal. Metropolitan State University is in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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