In April, Pepperdine University Law School hosted a symposium, exploring the most maligned United States Supreme Court Decisions.

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Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal headed up a panel of legal scholars to review the recent Supreme Court term.  He talked about important cases from this term including the Wal-Mart case, the impact Justice Kagan has made on the Court and also looked forward to what’s ahead including the Obama health care law cases currently being heard in circuit courts around the country.  The Heritage Foundation hosted this discussion in Washington, DC. 

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Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor speaks about historical conflicts between the judicial and executive branches of government. She talks about the separation of powers in cases of war and reflects on moments in American history when the three branches of government intersected and clashed. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York hosted this event in 2007.

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Arlen Specter died Sunday, October 14th, 2012, at the age of 82. In his 30 years representing Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate, Specter participated in the confirmation hearings of 14 U.S. Supreme Court nominees. Soon after leaving the Senate in 2011, Specter sat down for a series of oral history interviews with the Pennsylvania Cable Network. In this interview, he recounts his experience as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee as it considered the nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.

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45 years ago, on October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African American Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.  He was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson.  This is his 1991 retirement press conference.

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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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