On January 20th, 1993, Bill Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States. Watch C-SPAN’s coverage of Bill Clinton and his family on that inauguration day.

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On January 20th, 1989, George H.W. Bush was sworn in as the 41st President of the United States. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor administering the vice-presidential oath to Dan Quayle, followed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist administering the presidential oath to George H.W. Bush.

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Actor Sam Waterston will recite Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural address to mark the 150th anniversary of his swearing-in as President of the United States on March 4, 1861. The oath of office will be re-enacted and Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer will deliver remarks. As was the sequence in 1861, the swearing-in follows the reading of the inaugural address.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 Presidential Inauguration was the last one held in March. The 20th Amendment fixed inauguration day in January.

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Fifty years ago, on January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a farewell address to the nation in which he warned against the influence of the “military industrial complex”. The speech took place just days before his successor, John F. Kennedy, was sworn in as the 35th president of the United States. We’ll hear first from President Eisenhower – and then, after his 15 minute speech, we’ll see footage from JFK’s inauguration day.

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In honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1961 inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, Congress held a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol with remarks by House and Senate leaders and a "word of thanks" by Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the late president.

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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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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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Metropolitan State University professor Douglas Rossinow teaches a class on the Iran-Contra affair, which took place in the mid-1980s during the Reagan Administration. The Iran-Contra affair stems from Reagan administration officials funding the Contras - who were fighting against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua - with money from the sale of arms to Iran. The arms were being sold to Iran in the hope of gaining the release of American hostages held in Lebanon - hence the reason the affair is sometimes called as the “arm-for-hostages” scandal. Metropolitan State University is in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Forty years ago, in May 1973, a U.S. Senate Select Committee began its nationally televised hearings on Watergate. James McCord was one of the five men arrested a year earlier attempting to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. McCord was security director for the 1972 Committee to Re-elect President Nixon, and was convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in January 1973. In this portion, Committee Chair Sam Ervin questioned McCord about his January 1973 conversation with Jack Caulfield, a former White House aide.

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