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[applause] interested in American History . Watch American History television on cspan3 at the weekend. 40 hours of people and events that helped document the american story. Visit cspan. Org history for more information. Booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. Im going to try to get through a few. One is the future of the brain. Doing a lot of work in neuroscience space in congress. We have a map of the brain. A group of essays that if they all point to the direction of the future. As a euro sign tracers. Im also interested in both st...

And the signing of the bill. Also this weekend, tonight at 7 10 university of california at berkeley history professor brian delay looks at the history of drug production in europe and how arms trading contributed to an american victory during the american resolution revolution. Get our complete schedule at cspan. Org. All weekend long, American History tv is featuring a guster, georgia, where singer james brown was raised. The largest collection of his memorabilia in the world is housed at the Augusta Museum of history. Together with our Comcast Cable partners cspans cities tour staff recentl...

Monday night at 8 00 eastern on the communicators on cspan2. Welcome to augusta on American History tvp or with health from our Comcast Cable partners, we will explore the history of georgias secondlargest city, situated on the georgia South Carolina border. Home to the u. S. Army known around the world for his golf tournament. Coming up, visit the boyhood home of president woodrow wilson. When wilson was elected for his second term, it was all about staying out of the war. This harkens back to augusta doing civil war. He knew what civil war meant. He knew it would mean death for many young me...

Manmade waterway and it comes from the Savannah River, our main river here and troughs in town about 7. 5 miles. Here, the son of the first mayor of augusta was in massachusetts and saw the canal. Augustas economics came to a standstill. Hes aware to do something and thought we could do that here. We can build a canal and pull that Savannah River and bring into town of high so it can fall. The canal was his main purpose was hydropower. A secondary use there were long barges. Well, they had to shoot the rapids. As the river dropped a very dangerous down the river. They were very pleased when it...

Decision that he was going to march to the sea, come hell or high water. There were so many rumors going on in that era of him coming through georgia. Rumors scare. The people get scared. Of the people think he is coming in than they do not move there almost paralyzed. That caused as much far as him actually attacking this area. Strategically he never intended to. He marched to the sea started in north georgia. He came down from tennessee general sherman, he started in north georgia. He had a number of major skirmishes bottles, that were in north georgia. Went down to atlanta, and then from at...