American History TV visits Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts, a “living history” museum that depicts early New England life from 1790 to 1840. Now, we hear from costumed historians who present what is was like to live and work in 19th-century New England. Curator Tom Kelleher serves as our guide.
 

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The Andrew Johnson National Historic Site in Greeneville, Tennessee is owned and operated by the National Park Service. It was one of the stops on a 10-day bus tour from Asheville, North Carolina to Austin, Texas led by historian and author Richard Norton Smith in May of 2011.

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The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee stands adjacent to the Lorraine Motel, the site of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination on April 4, 1968. The museum depicts the evolution of American civil rights from 1619 through 2000, and celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2011. Gwen Harmon, the museum's director of governmental and community affairs, led this tour.

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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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Before serving as our eleventh President from 1845 to 1849, James K. Polk was Speaker of the House and Governor of Tennessee.  We take a tour of the James K. Polk Ancestral Home in Columbia, Tennessee, the only surviving home—save the White House—in which Polk lived. He died of cholera just three months after leaving the Presidency.

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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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Baltimore, Maryland is often called the birthplace of railroading in the United States.  American History TV visited the B&O Railroad Museum for a look at examples of historic equipment beginning with stagecoaches and wagons used on the National Road, and ending with the first diesel locomotive.

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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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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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