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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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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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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