Would drop their careers and go off to film overseas for three or four years. You know, all of the men i write about have their flaws as people and their complicated personal issues, but we understand in many ways what world war ii looked like and felt like because of the work they did. It was all worked they had never done before. It was an extraordinary leap of effort and sacrifice and thought for every single one of them and is a legacy ofus world war ii on film that has deeply informed everything about world war ii that has been filmed and much that has been written. Mark harris is a columnist for energy met weekly Entertainment Weekly and his book is titled five came back a story of hollywood and the second world war. Thank you for being with us. Thank you. This year, cspan is touring cities across the country exploring American History. A look at our recent visit to st. Louis, missouri. You are watching American History tv. St. Louis is celebrating 250 years of history. The museum has put together an 250. Incalled the public a story and shares with us selections from one of the exhibits live sections. St. Louis is a collection of incredibly diversenot just in tf architecture, but the effect they have had nationally. We have local artist draw all 50 places in the giant chalkboard mural behind me. Where people can find out much more information electronically about each lace and a Photo Gallery one through each one. People can go find each one of these places up on the wall and they can dive further in. We have a descriptive we have a Photo Gallery of the place. Some of them, they were places that were formally very noticeable and now you would never see them. River,other side of the a massive native american former and 1300s. N the 12 this is a very large urban area for the native american culture. On the st. An mounds louis side of the river, too. This was 100 some odd feet long. You could not miss it. In 1860s, it was a railroad. All that is left is a small rock marking where the biggest thing in the city used to be. Without passing on the stories, people would never know about this kind of thing. Becauseally interesting they can see old photographs, old philip illustrations of where these over this mountain was. Of where this mountain was. Diverselaces are very collection of places. That noway arch, laces one could ever visit now because they have been removed from the landscape. Places that everybody is proud of. Francis field at washington university, the site of the first olympic games. And we have places that people are not proud of and rightfully so. The largest slave dealing location in st. Louis. Everybody was throwing out their favorite landmark. Teamber of our exhibit said, when i think about the places i spent the most time at on the places where i interacted people the most, it it is the Grocery Store. She put forward a local st. Louis Grocery Store chain. Why is this in a History Museum . What is the big deal . We wanted to show that even those commonplaces you spend your most boring time of the week, this history there is Something Interesting that is such a specific part of life. They are a local st. Louis family and they started with just one small store where they sold it was a butcher shop and ice cream store. Now they are a huge chain that is very widely used in the st. Louis area. Looking at history from that angle, the idea of even those commonplaces have history was something we thought was very interesting. One of our other places, the overarching idea of home. Sony different neighborhoods somebody different neighborhoods in st. Louis. Just as much a part of the city as all of these landmarks. This is where you interact and you work through all of these things in your life that later we wanted toy that show people that idea that history is not just a series of old military fortresses. History can be surrounding you all the time. Allen huffman shares the tale of two mississippis. We visit Prospect Hill in jackson. Prospect hill was founded by revolutionary war veteran in south carolina. When he realized he would die , hethe slaves would be sold wrote in his will that at the time of his daughters death, the implantation would be sold and the money used to pay the weight the slaves winter to integrate to emigrate. They call it repatria nation. Repatriation. Most of these people were americans. They had been here for three, 4, 5 generations. It was not just like they were going home. It was quite a risk. They took their culture. Some of them took the bad aspects, too. Slavery was all they had ever known. They built houses like this one because they are the ones who built this house. A lot of revival houses the free slaves built in mississippi and africa and across the river was louisiana. There was a georgia, virginia, kentucky, maryland counties. All of those people came from those states in the u. S. Explore the history and literary life of jackson, mississippi, next weekend on book tv and American History tv on cspan three. Tv, barryn history lewis talks about the creation of new york citys central park. He talks about why the park was built in the many different recreational sections. He argues that the park was the first great civic work of art in the united states. The New York Historical society hosted this hourlong event. She is the official historian and photographer for the central park observance he and she gave us a new