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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C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles take American History TV on the road. Throughout the weekend of June 15-17 we feature the history of Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Author and professor Jonathan Gill talks about his book “Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America.” To illustrate the scope of the Harlem Renaissance, Professor Gill discusses James Weldon Johnson -- a poet, songwriter, author, educator, diplomat and civil rights activist. This event was hosted by the New York City Bar Association.

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The Civil War Battle of Chancellorsville was fought April 30 to May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Many historians consider the battle to be Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory. Facing a Union Army more than twice the size of his own, Lee divided his forces, sending 27,000 men under “Stonewall” Jackson on a 12-mile march to deliver a flank attack. In this program, we follow two National Park Service historians on a tour as they walk the same ground exactly 150 years after Jackson launched his attack.

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Author Graham Hodges looks at New York City’s cartmen, who hauled goods on one-horse carts and dominated the streets of the city from 1667 to 1850. He talks about how the cartmen developed deep relationships with the merchants and residents of New York City and came to be a part of the civic culture. The cartmen also came to hold political power and can be considered the forerunners of modern labor unions. The Gotham Center for New York City History hosted this event.

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University of Kansas professor Shawn Leigh Alexander teaches a class on the period following the end of slavery to the beginning of segregation. Professor Alexander discusses the failed Civil Rights Act of 1875, the Supreme Court ‘s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, and African American journalist Ida B. Wells work to expose the horrors of lynching in the United States. The University of Kansas is in Lawrence.
 

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