and join us as historians preview the series on saturday, june 2nd, at 10:00 a.m. eastern. there s a new website for american history tv where you can find our schedule and see our upcoming program. history in the news. follow american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3, and online at c-span.org/history. each week, american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and historic sites around the country. at the outbreak of the civil war in the spring of 1861, washington, d.c. was a lightly defended city and vulnerable to attack with only one fort located 12 miles south of the city, and the confederate state of virginia just across the potomac river. by 1865, the nation s capital arguably had become the most fortified city in the world with a ring of about 70 armed forts and batteries encircling the city. we visited three of the surviving forts with dale floyd, author of a study on the civil war defenses of washington for the national park service. right
us. russell, thank you for giving us the chance to offer you a panel on this subject of bush s diplomacy today, and we re glad to have had your patient attendance and helpful comments. i hope the audience will join me in thanking all of you for an extraordinary beginning. [ applause ] i think it exceeded my greatest expectations, so thank you so much. we re going to break now for about 15 minutes and come back for the second panel on bush s commander in chief. each week, american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and historic sites around the country. at the outbreak of the civil war in the spring of 1861, washington, d.c. was a lightly defended city and vulnerable to attack with only one fortt located 12 miles south of the city, and the confederate state of virginia just across the potomac river. by 1865, the nation s capital arguably had become the most fortified city in the world with a ring of about 70 armed forts and batteries encircling the city. we v
dozen workers represent justice, unity and the spirit of self improvement. franklin and eleanor roosevelt were on hand when the memorial was on hand early in 1933. fittingly so, at the dawn of the new deal and the decade of historic strides for organized labor. each week, american artifacts takes viewers into archives around the country. at the outbreak of the civil war in the spring of 1861, washington d.c. was a lightly defended city and vulnerable to attack with one fort located 12 miles south of the city and the fate of virginia across the potomac river. by 1865, the capital had been the most fortified city in the world. we visit three of the surviving forts with dale floyd. author of the studies for the national park service. right now, we are in the museum at fort ward which has a variety of different artifacts in it. the nice thing is they have a map of the defenses of washington and it gives you a good idea of where they are today. we have at fort ward, which is h