This May marked 40 years since the Senate Watergate hearings began. We are airing oral history interviews from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library that provide a new look into the Nixon impeachment inquiry. After a silence of four decades, key staff charged with investigating whether there were grounds to impeach the president have recorded their part in history. These interviews were conducted by the former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, Timothy Naftali.

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Timothy Messer-Kruse examines the events surrounding the 1886 Haymarket bombing & trial in Chicago. He is the author of "The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age" and a professor of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this event.

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The Civil War Battle of Chancellorsville was fought April 30th to May 6th, 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 continue on a tour with two National Park Service historians as they walk the same ground exactly 150 years after Jackson launched his attack. This is the second of a two-part program, and picks up with the Union 11th Corps in retreat, and the Confederates in pursuit.

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William Hogeland, author of the book “Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation," explains how conflicting views of economics and class among the founders influenced the debate over the Constitution. The Kansas City Public Library hosts this event.

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Florida Atlantic University professor Stephen Engle teaches a class on the evolving nature of the Civil War. Among the issues discussed: President Lincoln’s decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation in the middle of the war -- and to use former slaves as troops – and how these ideas changed the Civil War from a fight to preserve the Union, to one about abolishing slavery, thus altering the nation forever. Florida Atlantic University is in Boca Raton. 
 

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Military historian Gregory Hospodor looks at the year-long campaign by the Union Army and Navy to take Vicksburg – the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River. He discusses Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s series of strategic maneuvers that led to a prolonged siege and ultimately the fall of the fortified city on July 4, 1863. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this event.

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Winston Groom discusses his book, “Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847.”  Under orders from President James K. Polk, General Stephen Watts Kearny led a cavalry from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to California to acquire Mexican territory for the United States.  This crucial and successful campaign during the Mexican-American War helped to pave the way for the rapid westward expansion of the United States.

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This May marked 40 years since the Senate Watergate hearings began. This is an oral history interview from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library that provides a new look into the Nixon impeachment inquiry. After a silence of four decades, key staff charged with investigating whether there were grounds to impeach the president have recorded their part in history. These interviews were conducted by the former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, Timothy Naftali.

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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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