Major Sean Sculley of U.S. Military Academy–West Point teaches a course on American history from the late 19th century to the present. In this week’s class, he focuses on the conflicting worldviews during the Vietnam War era. Professor Sculley was recently deployed to Iraq and returned to West Point this past spring to resume his teaching duties.

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The State Department Office of the Historian recently hosted a symposium on the American Experience in Southeast Asia. The following discussion focuses on the impact of the Vietnam War on the home front in the United States.

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Donald Stoker is a professor at the Naval War College in Monterey, California.

This class is about North Vietnamese strategy during the Vietnam War.

It is part of a course called, “Strategy and War,” which examines the relationship between political goals and the use of military force.

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“The Big Picture” was a documentary series produced by the Defense Department that aired on ABC Television from 1951 through 1975. The series focused on battles and figures in U.S. military history. This film features President Lyndon B. Johnson outlining U.S. policy in Vietnam.

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Robert McNamara served as Defense Secretary from 1961 to 1968 under President Kennedy and President Johnson. This is a discussion of his leadership during the Vietnam War.  Panelists include former Defense Secretary Harold Brown, and Edward Drea, the author of "McNamara, Clifford, and the Burdens of Vietnam, 1965 to 1969."

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C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles take American History TV on the road. Throughout the weekend of June 15-17 we feature the history of Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Author and professor Jonathan Gill talks about his book “Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America.” To illustrate the scope of the Harlem Renaissance, Professor Gill discusses James Weldon Johnson -- a poet, songwriter, author, educator, diplomat and civil rights activist. This event was hosted by the New York City Bar Association.

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The Civil War Battle of Chancellorsville was fought April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Many historians consider the battle to be Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory. Facing a Union Army more than twice the size of his own, Lee divided his forces, sending 27,000 men under “Stonewall” Jackson on a 12-mile march to deliver a flank attack. In this program, we follow two National Park Service historians on a tour as they walk the same ground exactly 150 years after Jackson launched his attack.

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Author Graham Hodges looks at New York City’s cartmen, who hauled goods on one-horse carts and dominated the streets of the city from 1667 to 1850. He talks about how the cartmen developed deep relationships with the merchants and residents of New York City and came to be a part of the civic culture. The cartmen also came to hold political power and can be considered the forerunners of modern labor unions. The Gotham Center for New York City History hosted this event.

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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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