From the Organizations of American Historian’s annual conference, a panel of historians look back at the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks.

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C-SPAN remembers September 11th, 2001 through the stories of Americans who were at the White House, U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon – and in the skies above Washington.

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C-SPAN remembers September 11th, 2001 through the stories of Americans who were at the White House, U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon – and in the skies above Washington.

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C-SPAN remembers September 11th, 2001 through the stories of Americans who were at the White House, U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon – and in the skies above Washington.

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At the 2011 Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations’ annual conference, a panel of historians reflected on the impact September 11th has had on American foreign policy and how the “war on terror” has changed the way we look at history since the attacks.

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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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