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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More than 20 years after the end of the Cold War, a panel convened by the New York Historical Society reflects on the critical relationship between the two great superpower leaders – Ronald Reagan of the United States and Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union.

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In 1984 President Ronald Reagan visited China. Reagan was the first American president to visit China since Richard Nixon in 1972.

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February 6, 2011 marks the centennial of President Reagan’s birth. And in the coming months, American History TV will air discussions from academic conferences convened to consider Ronald Reagan’s legacy. But, for now, we’ll hear directly from President Reagan, who addressed his fellow Americans from the Oval Office for the last time on January 11, 1989.

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Fmr. Pres. Ronald Reagan is eulogized at the National Cathedral by Pres. Bush, Fmr. Pres. George H.W. Bush, Fmr. British P.M. Margaret Thatcher & Fmr. Canadian P.M. Brian Mulroney.

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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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Mary Elizabeth Bowser was a former slave who became a Union spy in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. She was part of a pro-Union underground spy ring run by Elizabeth Van Lew, the daughter of a prominent Richmond citizen. In this program, authors Elizabeth Varon and Lois Leveen talk about the life and story of Ms. Bowser, as well as her relationship with Ms. Van Lew. The two authors also discuss how they wrote and researched their books. The event took place at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond.

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