John Lloyd of California State Polytechnic University looks at the political and ideological conflicts between the North and South that led up to the Civil War, including the extension of slavery into the territories and debate over the Fugitive Slave Law.

Harvey Sicherman of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Walter A. McDougall of the University of Pennsylvania, Lowell Dittmer of the University of California at Berkeley, and Robert G. Sutter of Georgetown University examine U.S. policy toward East Asia during the George W. Bush administration; and consider the impact which the 2008 presidential campaign and the upcoming change in leadership might have on policy.

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Harvey Sicherman of the Foreign Policy Research Institute discusses the history of U.S. policy and interventions in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, following forward particularly from Clinton's term in office through George W. Bush's actions and policies.

Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library Director Tim Naftali tells the story of how Elvis Presley came to Washington, DC, and requested and received a meeting with President Richard Nixon.

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Presidential Materials Staff Director Nancy Smith discusses the process by which items gifted to a U.S. president find their way to the Presidential Libraries, and describes a few of her favorite artifacts from recent presidential administrations.

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Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library Director Betty Sue Flowers discusses the library's collection of Johnson's recorded phone conversations and plays one such conversation, in which Johnson called Harry Truman to ask him to attend a state funeral in Greece.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library Director Cynthia Koch talks about a nine-foot papier-mache caricature of President Roosevelt displayed at a Gridiron Club Dinner. She then goes on to describe FDR's election to a third term in office and his struggle to be paired with the vice president of his choice.

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Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Director Timothy Walch talks about the embroidered Belgian flour sacks sent to Herbert Hoover as thanks for his work as the head of the Commission for the Relief of Belgium during World War I.

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Truman Presidential Library Director Mike Devine describes Harry Truman's two Chryslers, commenting on the condition they were in when the library received them and the condition in which Truman kept them.

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Director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Duke Blackwood describes the installation at the library which displays Air Force One.

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