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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This June marks the 50th Anniversary of two of President John F. Kennedy’s most memorable speeches. On June 10th 1963, JFK delivered the commencement address at American University known as his “Peace Speech.” He called for high-level negotiations with the Soviet Union, a nuclear test ban treaty and an end to the Cold War.  On June 26th 1963, President Kennedy took a harder line in West Berlin, famously stating that as a free man he took pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner.” This is a discussion from the Kennedy Presidential Library about the significance and lasting influence of these two addresses.

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The Battle of Gettysburg took place July 1-3, 1863, in Pennsylvania, as Union forces turned back an invasion of the North by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The Union victory inspired President Abraham Lincoln to call for “a new birth of freedom” in his address a few months later dedicating the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg. C-SPAN's American History TV was LIVE on June 30 from Gettysburg National Military Park covering events commemorating the 150th anniversary of the battle, including remarks by scholars such as Harold Holzer, Allen Guelzo, and Doris Kearns Goodwin, as well as your calls and tweets for Civil War Institute Director Peter Carmichael and novelist Jeff Shaara.

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American History TV joined historian Carol Reardon and Col. Tom Vossler to learn the story of the three-day Battle of Gettysburg through a selection of their favorite monuments.

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