Lived in ohio, although they had immigrated from england and scotland. But the wilsons lived here in augustine and they were the only ones on his side of the family who were in the south and took the Southern Side of the conflict. All of his brothers and sisters his mother was of norse of the time up north at the time it. They created a bit of a division. The civil war affected the wilsons like it did most people. The modern part of the civil war the latter part of the civil war, the south was subject to a huge inflationary situation with money because of course, the confederate currency was getting more and more worthless. And we see that demonstrated in the church records, president wilsons fathers salary was 3000 a year when the war started. That was given to him quarterly in 750 installments. The latter part of a 264, the first part of 1865, they paid him in regular installments and they started shoving money at him, thousands of dollars at a time, 5000 here, 3000 there, of course, it was practically worthless. And then when the war was over, there is really no payment until the u. S. Currency started coming into play in the south. And they kind of got back on their feet. As he grew older, president wilson remembered the war and reflected back on it from time to time. His Fathers Church was turned into a stockade of sorts with union and confederate people he came here after the battle of chickamauga so he wouldve seen the wounded and dying soldiers, right in his Fathers Church and surrounding in the yard. So that would have had a profound impact. He thought of war truly is held. As hell, and not a good thing. When world war i began to escalate, there was an effort to get america our with one side of the other. Wilson, being president , resisted because he remembered war, he knew of its misery and what ms. Reed could bring to the american people. He wanted to avoid that if at all possible. All that goes right back to his experiences as a child during the civil war. This is the best room it was the best space in the house, reserved for your guests. Therefore you have a bed and bedchamber here. It would also double as a sitting room for more informal visits that the family might have had with more intimate neighbors and friends that they did not need to take them to the formal parlor for. One of the things in this room that is really interesting is this panel, this glass pane that includes a scratch of the word tom, that was done by the president himself when he was a child. He must have gotten his mothers diamond ring and scratched his name in the glass, something you find in many old houses. The signature is on the glass actually matches some of his earliest signatures. We are very certain that is him. His name was Thomas Woodrow wilson, he only dropped his first name after he started to law school at the university of virginia. Because he felt that one day he would become an important political figure he thought at that time he would be a senator. But he didnt think that tommy wilson sounded dignified enough, so with his familys permission he dropped his first name and just went by woodrow. Woodrow being his mothers maiden name. Back here are pictures of his maternal grandparents, Thomas Woodrow, for whom he was named his grandfather, his grandfather marion woodrow. Woodrow was a great reformer interested in, even from childhood, translating into his career as president and governor, and then president of the United States come he was always examining the rules, the bylaws, the constitution. And trying to improve it. As president , some of the first things he did were to have economic impact, he established the Federal Reserve act, setting up a system of national banking. The clayton antitrust act, which took the antitrust laws farther than they had gone in previous acts. He enacted, under his watch, there were enacted labor laws, child labor laws, and also Railroad Worker laws, the our day was established. The child labor laws had to do with age limits on children working in factories. Which previously had almost no effect. There was no checks and balances on that. Initially have been coming along before but the amendment that made senators elected directly by the people rather than other state legislatures was ratified by wilson in 1913. One thing that is important to us as historic preservationists is is 1916 he established the National Park service. The parks that existed before that, he established what we now know as the National Park service is. He organized it all into a systematic way of administering the parks. One thing that people probably dont appreciate that he did in the financial realm was, the act that led to the establishment of the federal income tax. Which is still with us. Theyre so many things today that we just take for granted that we are used to and we hear about all the time, we often dont connect them to the wilson administration. In november of 1911, when president wilson was still governor of new jersey and considering a run for the presidency, he was going around the country talking to various political wellconnected people, including newspaper editors and press folks, he came to augustine and spent a weekend here. He took tours of the city, he actually watched ty cobb, who lived in the time downtown, there was a reception and so forth. On sunday he went to church with his father, as he always did attend church on sunday, and the pastor invited him to come to sunday dinner, which he did. Which was held here in this room. As he was having dinner, he sat at the table and said this is the very table that i sat at as a child, and he got up under the table and show them some scuff marks he thought he had made with his feet. While he was here, he also had a photograph taken in the yard. This was taken during the visit. You can see he is here on the right, the ladies and children are the severe family, mrs. Severe and her daughter, virginia, and son john and a friend, sadie fields, who was here the time. We treasure this photograph, its the only one that we have of him here at the site that was taken here at the site. In augustine would like to refer to certain quotes the wilson used from time to time. One of those is that a boy never gets over his boyhood and never can change, the subtle influences that became part of him and performed formed on him when he was a child. When people come to visit the wilson house in augustine, we hope they leave with a number of ideas about the man, woodrow wilson. For instance that is later life was affected by his childhood here during the civil war and reconstruction. How the federal governments played an Important Role in peoples lives. As he experienced as a child. His education, his religion, all started here in augustine. Also, his leadership. His leadership ability started here in augustine. With the Lightfoot Baseball Club and eventually led to more and more organizations with more and more responsibility and grander and grander ideas. Until he was organizing the entire world. We think that is a very important thing that should be told here in augustine. It started right here in this house. Throughout the weekend, American History tv is featuring augustine, georgia. Our staff travel there to learn about its rich history. Learn more about augustine and other stops on our tour at www. Cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching a good history tv, all weekend, on cspan3. I have two messages, moscow is good for docking, houston is good for docking, its a to you guys. Have fun. Sounds good. Mid july, 1975. An american apollo spacecraft and a soviet site use spacecraft prepare to join or become a 140 miles above the atlantic near portugal. Around the world, millions watch and listen as the two spacecraft become one. Now they wait for the next about events, a meeting of soviet and american cruise. Crews. Theres the camera. [laughter] let him stay open. Go ahead. Just a moment. Turn on the camera. Ok. I have to see you. [speaking in russian] in the first crew transfer, astronauts are hosted by cosmonaut. One remains behind. In the name of the soviet people and for myself personally, i am leaders of the ussr and the United States really their congratulations. New possibilities are opening up for fruitful development of scientific cooperation between countries and peoples, in the interest of this peace and progress of all humanity, i wish you successful completion of the planned program, and a safe return to earth. The astronauts are online. Gentlemen, let me express my very great admiration for your hard work, your total dedication in preparing for this first joint flight. It has taken as many years to open this door to useful cooperation in space between our two countries. Im confident that the day is not far off when and made possible by this first joint efforts will be more or less commonplace. In signing off, here is to a soft landing. Thank you, mr. President. Joint American History tv tomorrow as we look back 50 years to the Voting Rights act. President Lyndon Johnson went to the u. S. Capitol rotunda on august 6 1965, to sign the bill that he believed would be his greatest legacy. American history tv will go behind the scenes to hear white house telephone calls between lbj and his aides, as well as civil rights leader Martin Luther king and members of congress who strategize how to enact and enforce a Voting Rights law. We talk with lbj estimates of policy adviser, jill kelley format, and historian cap germany, who has edited transcripts of lbjs white house call. And we will see the president s speech at the u. S. Capitol before he signed the bill. That is sunday at 10 00 a. M. , 5 00 p. M. , antenna caught clock p. M. Eastern here on American History tv. In the year 1215, king john of england signed the magna carta which placed limits on the monarchs power. The Founding Fathers turn to the magna carta when drafting the u. S. Constitution. Up next on American History tv, a panel of scholars examined the influence of the magna carta on the constitution. Panelists discuss the Historical Context of the magna carta, as well as common