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>> of the 2012 local content vehicle cities to work takes both tv and american history tv programming on the road the first weekend of each month. this past weekend featured little rock arkansas. he collected photographs and is particularly interested in the nineteenth century. the civil war, particularly. these are friends, you get that confederate that merely to other prior to the civil war, fought against each other, survived, and made friends after the war. here they are at age 100 talking about the old days. >> and talking about the japanese internment camps. a >> a wonderful bo...

for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. "q and a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. each week americ"american h t tv"'s "american artifacts" takes viewers to archives, museums and historic sites around the country. the smithsonian museum of african-american history and culture will open a new building off the national mall in 2015. "american history tv" spoke to lonnie bunch, the new director of the facility. we spoke to him in a washington, d.c., suburb where he shows us the artifacts that will be on display in the ...

the two most important decisions that were decided since you were in law school? he thought the question was when i was in law school. so he answered grigs versus power and roe v. wade. he was asked the question again as if he had given a stupid answer. he answered grigs and rowe. i stand by my answer. the answer is pretty good for since he was in law school because we checked with -- to see what issues provoked the most democratic questions during his confirmation hearings, and the two issues that garnered by far the most questions were, yep, you guessed it, grigs and roe vs. wade. ...

staff of two, no place to know for sure where the museum was going to be, no sense of what the building would look like and today we have a wonderful architect who has created this wonderful model that i'm standing next to. this gives a sense of what the model will look like when it's erected right next to the washington monument. the cost of this building is a wonderful public private partnership. the building itself will cost $500 million. congress is committed to paying 50% and i'm committed to raising 50% of those costs. one of the joys of this building is that it's got a beautif...

c-span.org/history and sign up to have it e-mailed to you by pressing the c-span alert button. each week american history tv's american artifacts take viewers into archives, museums and historic sites around the country. the smithsonian national museum of african-american history and culture will open a new building on the national mall in 2015. american history tv spoke with lonnie bunch, the museum's founding director, about the new facility. and later we travel with mr. bunch to the museum's storage site in the washington, d.c., suburb where he shows us some of the artifacts that ...