The B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore is marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with the ongoing exhibit "The War Came by Train." We visited the museum's historic roundhouse building for a tour with guest curator Daniel Toomey.  Mr. Toomey argues that due to the extensive use of railroads and the telegraph, the Civil war was the first "modern war."

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Two Civil War sailors who went down with the USS Monitor ironclad off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1862 are interred in a full military honors funeral at Arlington National Cemetery.

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American History TV visited Alexandria, Virginia and the National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum - inside the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - to tour an exhibit about health & fitness inventions. We'll learn about 19th century patent medicines, a mechanical horse used by President Calvin Coolidge, the origins of Gatorade & Nike, and the trademarks and patents of fitness guru Jack LaLanne.

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Each week American Artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and historic sites around the country.The American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, is an independent research library founded in 1812 by Revolutionary War patriot and printer Isaiah Thomas. The library's holdings include more than four million items, and its collection of American printed materials prior to 1825 is the most extensive in the world. Next, a look at selected items from the American Revolutionary period. 

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Each week, American Artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and historic sites around the country. We visited the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum facility near Washington’s Dulles Airport where curator Tom Crouch showed us the airplanes that have carried Americans aloft from the earliest days of the 20th century – planes that have earned a place not only in our history but in our collective imagination.

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We visit the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum facility near Washington’s Dulles Airport – the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. We’ll see the museum’s newest prize possession: Space Shuttle Discovery. And we’ll get a look at the earliest capsules that carried Americans into Earth’s orbit and beyond at the beginning of the Space Age.

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This June marks the 50th Anniversary of two of President John F. Kennedy’s most memorable speeches. On June 10th 1963, JFK delivered the commencement address at American University known as his “Peace Speech.” He called for high-level negotiations with the Soviet Union, a nuclear test ban treaty and an end to the Cold War.  On June 26th 1963, President Kennedy took a harder line in West Berlin, famously stating that as a free man he took pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner.” This is a discussion from the Kennedy Presidential Library about the significance and lasting influence of these two addresses.

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The Battle of Gettysburg took place July 1-3, 1863, in Pennsylvania, as Union forces turned back an invasion of the North by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The Union victory inspired President Abraham Lincoln to call for “a new birth of freedom” in his address a few months later dedicating the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg. C-SPAN's American History TV was LIVE on June 30 from Gettysburg National Military Park covering events commemorating the 150th anniversary of the battle, including remarks by scholars such as Harold Holzer, Allen Guelzo, and Doris Kearns Goodwin, as well as your calls and tweets for Civil War Institute Director Peter Carmichael and novelist Jeff Shaara.

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American History TV joined historian Carol Reardon and Col. Tom Vossler to learn the story of the three-day Battle of Gettysburg through a selection of their favorite monuments.

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Virginia Commonwealth University professor Deirdre Condit teaches a class on the history of reproductive law in the U.S. Professor Condit touches on the 1965 U.S. Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut, about the prohibited use of contraceptives and the right to marital privacy. The class also examines rights and access to abortion, looking at the 1962 story of actress Sherri Finkbine, who had taken medication she later discovered causes birth defects, prompting her to fly to Sweden for an abortion. Also discussed is the historic 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion case.

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