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Transcripts For CSPAN3 American Artifacts Arlington National Cemetery 1915 Memorabilia Box 20240711

Bush pushed president world war wilson watch beginning at eight eastern and enjoy American History tv every weekend on cspan 3. In 1915, the president Woodrow Wilson place the memorable box in the cornerstone at the memorial 105 years later, in april 2020, the box was carefully removed and opened to discover what was inside. Next on american artifacts, we visit arlington to see the contents with cemetery historians tim frank and conservator caitlin smith. In order to talk about this member label and cornerstone we really have to take you back to 1864, and bringing forward to 1950. In 1864 we buried the first soldier here, private william, in may of 1864, and one month later, the secretary of war satisfy 200 acres to become a national secretary. By the end of the civil war, there were 15,000 union and confederate soldiers buried here, and in 1868, general john logan who come ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 C-SPAN Cities Tour- The Atomic Bomb 20240711

Its a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history. In a august 6th, 1945, the United States detonated the First Nuclear weapon in history over the city of hiroshima, japan, followed by a second detonation august 9th over the city of nagasaki. Six days later japan surrendered bringing an end to the second world war. I have received this afternoon message from the japanese government and applied to the message forded to the secretary on august 11th. I deem this reply a full acceptance of the potsdam declaration which specifies the Unconditional Surrender of japan. Through the work of cspans cities tour well share stories of the people that contributed to this worldaltering event. We begin in new orleans at the
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Transcripts For CSPAN3 American Artifacts Fort Monroe Casemate Museum 20240711

The president. Lectures in history every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures is history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. The largest stone fort in the United States sits at the mouth of the chesapeake bay. Fort monroe Casemate Museum director gives us a tour showcasing its history and its role in the civil war. Were inside the casemate music because were inside a casemate. Its a vault inside of a wall. Kind of unique for museums in this day and time. Were going to walk you through the museum and talk about the interesting history that occurs here. Some of our stories will deal with the indians, the africans that first arrived here. Thousands and thousands of years ago, the natives of this land started to migrate. They migrated as far as as far west as mexico and the Mississippi Ri ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 C-SPAN Cities Tour Visits National Parks 20240711

Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 they worked in order to really attack the problem of a cap americans here in selma not having the right to vote. In the 1993, in february of that year the first representatives were sent here, Bernard Lafayette and his wife kahleah to be the voice for snc in this area. The they were going into places that hadnt been touched by the civil right movement in a way. They were the people working with the noung people other in selma to prepare them for the work of civil rights and to march and protest in the streets for rights they werent even old enough to have. Sncc really laid the foundation and groundwork to build off of in 1965. Sncc did not meet here in the church but they met in
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Transcripts For CSPAN3 C-SPAN Cities Tour Visits National Parks 20240711

Of land with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited these sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, well feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin outside of cleveland. Well learn how the canal plays a major role in western expansion. The ohio canal is part of a twocanal system that was put in place in the early years of america, built between 1825 and 1832. And basically its a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river which is part of a large idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated along the atlantic seaboard. And our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we needed that country to expand westward. However, there was a big obst ....

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