Videos

Mark Bowden talked about his book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, in which he recounts the 1993 U.S. special operations raid in Mogadishu, Somalia that resulted in the deaths of 18…

Alice Wygant talked about the Galveston County Historical Museum. She focused on the “Tragedy into Triumph” exhibit on the natural disasters that have struck the city, including the 1900…

Louisiana Secretary of State Fox McKeithen gave the School Bus crew a tour of the Governor Huey Long exhibit in the Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The exhibits included a…

The C-SPAN school bus crew toured the State Historical Society of North Dakota as Mark Halvorson talked about the legacy of Sitting Bull. Video clips were shown of the bus crew’s visits to…

The C-SPAN Bus crew toured the site of the Manhattan Project, the scientific laboratory which developed the atom bomb in Los Alamos.

The School Bus crew visited the Ernest Hemingway House. Mr. McWilliam talked about Ernest Hemingway and his house.

The School Bus crew visited Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace in Oak Park, Illinois. Virginia Cassin, Ernest Hemingway Birth Place Home Coordinator, talked about the early years of Hemingway.

The C-SPAN bus went to Robert Frost Farm.

During a visit by the C-SPAN School Bus Mr. Ellington related the history of the Hotel Eaton, where in 1900 Carrie Nation first made news as an activist for prohibition. She damaged the…

Ms. Robinson and Ms. Smith talked about the civil rights leader Juanita J. Craft who worked with the NAACP to desegregate Dallas, Texas. The C-SPAN School Bus visited the Juanita Craft…

The Civil Rights Memorial is located on the grounds of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Mr. Dees talked about the mission of the center and about the memorial.

Duery Felton showed the collection of memorabilia left by visitors at the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial. All items left at the memorial are collected and displayed. He talked about the reasons…

The C-SPAN School Bus stopped at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Richard Norton Smith led a tour of the exhibit area showing the gifts of state, a model of the White House, and a…

Carol Kohan, Superintendent of the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, took C-SPAN cameras on a tour of former President Herbert Hoover’s boyhood home in West Branch, IA.

When the Gloucester schooner Adventure retired in 1953 she was the last American dory fishing trawler working in the North Atlantic. She was used for sailing cruises until 1988 and now…

The C-SPAN School Bus crew visited the SS Jeremiah O’Brien at the National Liberty Ship Memorial. The SS Jeremiah O’Brien is one of the two surviving Liberty ships from World War II. Thomas…

The C-SPAN School bus crew toured the National Steinbeck Center. Amanda Holder talked about the life of John Steinbeck and the museum created to showcase his life and work.

Members of the C-SPAN School Bus crew visited the home of Eleanor Roosevelt in Hyde Park, NY.