Ronald Reagan was born in 1911, and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is marking the 40th president’s centennial by featuring his life and presidency in their “One Life” room. We visited the National Portrait Gallery and toured the Ronald Reagan “One Life” exhibit with curator Sidney Hart.

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In January, as part of the Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration, Reagan’s alma mater, Eureka College held a conference that focused on Reagan’s formative years in the Midwest.

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On November 2, 2011, the CIA released more than 200 declassified documents and videos that President Reagan used in developing his Soviet Union policy.  Officials from the CIA, KGB and the Reagan Administration discuss President Reagan, the use of intelligence and the end of the cold war.  This event took place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California.

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A look back at Nancy Reagan's 1999 tour of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

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The University of Southern California hosted this panel discussion as part of a centennial symposium marking the 100th birthday of the 40th president of the United States.

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Del Quentin Wilber, author of “Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan,” met American History TV at the Washington Hilton to recreate the afternoon of March 30, 1981. On that day, John Hinckley fired six bullets at President Reagan, who had just completed a speech to the AFL-CIO. Using archival photographs and video, and declassified audio from the U.S. Secret Service, we trace the route of the presidential motorcade to The George Washington University Hospital.

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President Ronald Reagan's presidency and prior career as an actor is remembered at an event hosted by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Former Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), current president of the MPAA, joins NBC's Andrea Mitchell and ABC's Sam Donaldson to discuss the 40th president's life at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and his film career in Hollywood.

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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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Florida Atlantic University professor Stephen Engle teaches a class on the evolving nature of the Civil War. Among the issues discussed: President Lincoln’s decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation in the middle of the war -- and to use former slaves as troops – and how these ideas changed the Civil War from a fight to preserve the Union, to one about abolishing slavery, thus altering the nation forever. Florida Atlantic University is in Boca Raton. 
 

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University of Kansas professor Shawn Leigh Alexander teaches a class on the period following the end of slavery to the beginning of segregation. Professor Alexander discusses the failed Civil Rights Act of 1875, the Supreme Court ‘s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, and African American journalist Ida B. Wells work to expose the horrors of lynching in the United States. The University of Kansas is in Lawrence.
 

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