Gerald Ford's presidency is explored through a discussion with one of his Commerce Department undersecretaries: James Baker. Ford served as the 38th president from the years of 1973 - 74 and was the only unelected person to serve in the office. Ford became Vice President after Spirow Agnew resigned during the Watergate scandal. After Nixon's resignation, Ford served the remainder of the term.

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Steven Ford, the youngest son of President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford, reflects on the role that ethical considerations played in many of President Ford’s decisions.

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Members of Congress gathered in the Capitol Rotunda to dedicate a new statue of former President Gerald Ford.  Members of the former president’s family, including his son Steven and daughter Susan, also spoke.  President Ford served in the U.S. House from 1949 until taking the office of Vice President in 1973.  He served as the Republican Minority Leader for his last 8 years in the House.

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Richard Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9th, 1974.  Later that day, Gerald Ford took the oath of office and assumed the presidency. Three days after becoming president, Gerald Ford delivered an address to a Joint Session of Congress. The address is shown courtesy of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum.

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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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