This program explores African American work and life in Washington, D.C., especially in the area around the White House known as President's Park. This is a discussion with descendants of the De Priest, Wormley, Syphax, and Jennings families.
 

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This program is about the rise of a free black family residing near President's Park and about First Lady Lou Henry Hoover's invitation to Jessie De Priest, the wife of Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), to a White House Tea Party.

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This is a program on African American work and life in Washington, D.C., especially in the area around the White House known as President's Park. Speakers include Alexandra Lane, Rights and Reproductions Coordinator for the White House Historical Association, and Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, author of A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons. This event took place at St. John's Church on the edge of President's Park.

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This is about African American work and life in Washington, DC, especially in the area around the White House known as President's Park. Speaking at this event are Lonnie Bunch, director of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, George Mason history professor Spencer Crew and Katherine Malone-France of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.  The David M. Rubenstein National Center for White House History at Decatur House hosted this event.

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In May 2002, President George W. Bush addressed members of the German Bundestag. It was eight months after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, and he appealed for Europe's support in fighting global terrorism.

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President Clinton focused on economic globalization in this speech in front of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on July 12, 1994.

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President Reagan called on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" in this address at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin on June 12, 1987.

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Fifty years ago on June 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy spoke in Berlin on the differences between free and Communist systems, famously stating that as a free man he took pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner.”

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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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