>> every weekend beginning saturday at 8:00 a.m. eastern, we bring you 48 hours of unique programming exploring our nation's past. american history tv is only on c-span3. >> well in riverside, we took a driving tour of the city with historical consultant and former director of the riverside metropolitan museum, vincent moses. inriverside was founded 1870, shortly after the civil war, by judge john westley noris, who was a radical abolitionist before the war. he was on the nominating committee for abraham lincoln to

be the republican candidate for president in 1860. he ran lincoln's ohio campaign in 1860. colony he founded with like-minded individuals was a joint colony, the intent was to create a civilized, high level, cooperative commonwealth on the edge of the california desert. it lasted for a while. in fact, riverside is the result of his work. but by 1875, he left riverside for northern california to help found oleander and fresno. riverside really develops as a citrus town. it was the home of the navel orange culture, the first navel orange trees introduced from 1873. it made the community a really .ealthy process

we are about to pass the historic par, and i am -- park. often we think about real estate of the movies or oil as what makes southern california, but really it was citrus first. we're looking at this citrus state park, which now has over , bearing late navel orange grows. we are working on that. isinterpret how significant the industry was not only to the economy but how it influenced the culture. land companies, transportation systems, railroads.

california fruit growers exchange was so powerful -- it is known as sun-kissed now. 1951.enamed themselves in he manages the grows for the state on contract. this is what old riverside looked like, when we had 20,000 acres of navel oranges surrounding the state. it would have been incredible. >> and with the orchard growing, how does that -- with the water situation -- can you talk to us about how that may affect the growth of agriculture here? >> yes, i can. this was a desert, semidesert, semi-arid region. this citrus required irrigation. this is not rain-based agriculture, and it's not dry farming. citrus trees require -- navel oranges especially -- 40 inches of water per year.

distributed throughout the year. to grow and to produce a crop. and otherriversiders citrus communities had to de velop your edition systems. this is all watered by the famous gauge can now, -- gauge which was completed at the end of the 1890's by a british syndicate, the waterhouse family, which bought out matthew gauge and owned and purchased his 3500 acres of citrus.and develop we are going down magnolia avenue now. you'll see that this is suburbanite now, but in the 1920's, this would have all been washington naval alliance. by the way, this tree right

here, this is the last remaining parent naval orange tree. the one that's covered. it is covered for this reason. the university of california riverside citrus research center covered that along the city to tiny,t it against a almost microscopic insect that carries a bacteria called the greening disease. it has threatened citrus all over the world. it is from china. it has devastated the florida citrus crop, and we now know it is in california. was planted inh 1873 and moved to the site you just saw, was threatened. if it gets bitten by a bacteria-bearing silid, it is gone. so the city and the university have covered it with mesh to protected, which is a pretty radical approach, but this is the last remaining parent naval

orange tree, which created the vast citrus industry of california. we're on michigan avenue now. originally 7th street. area,ed us to see this because it's an historic district in two ways. if the national registered district, and it overlaps with the historic district that spreads out away from 7th. and of course, we are going now pass the national historic landmark, mission end. it is significant because it is the largest missionary revival structure in california, maybe in the united states. the mission inn has been visited by several presidents. ronald reagan, nancy reagan, theater roosevelt spent the night in the presidential suite

when it first opened in 1903. the next day he presided over the replanting of one of the parent naval orange trees in from of the new glenwood mission inn. of earlyen the scene peace conferences before world war i. international visitors from all over, including asia and europe. quite a significant role played in southern california, a regional hub and a national winter resort. on the left -- is this sherman? this is sherman institute, one of the last remaining boarding schools for native americans. that little mission style building is the sherman indian museum. in the late 1800s, thanks to helen hunt jackson and some

others, there was a real move to americanize, bringing them up to speed, to "civilized status," the native american population, who was by then mainly residing on reservation, to americanize them. and the way to do that the government felt was to bring them into boarding schools around the country and teach them english, teach them skills they could use in society, teach girls traditional, stereo typical female skills and the young men male skills like carpentry and mechanics. not assuming they would ever go to university. the sherman institute was eventually established at paris, just southeast of us here, in the 1890's. he was a real

advocate of the arts and crafts movement, and his hotel had just been redesigned and rebuilt in the mission revival style. he wanted to get a real mission, a real indian to riverside. a promoter and a progressive for his time. so he convinced the federal government they ought to move sherman institute from paris to riverside. riverside lost its status as an elite city, maybe the early 1970's, but it is gaining it back again, and as it gains it back it is taking on the 21st century look, mixed in with the historic district buildings. now we're kind of reestablishing and refocusing, like a lot of cities are, for the digital world and the digital future, and clean energy. we will turn up here in front of

-- this building sat vacant for a long time, and now my friend, a chinese entrepreneur, purchased this building. now she manufacturers solar panels in this building. >> and its sister did a nationwide? >> distributed nationwide. she brought a chinese manufacturing line to the united states, so these are bona fide u.s. solar panels. i think i see riverside regaining its status as one of the elite cities in southern california. evend been a competitor with los angeles before world war ii, and because of the naval orange culture. it lost a step for a while. we are regaining some of the status because of the level of our university capacity and clean energy programs and the fact that we own are own utility

and water and electric generating capacity. attracting anow large population of the new generation of millennials. they're geared to the 21st century and everything about it, all this digital capacity and all of its international ability to do online trade and online business. announcer: our cities tour staff recently traveled to riverside, california to learn about its rich history. learn more about riverside and other stops on our tour at c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. announcer: join american history tv for live, all day coverage of

the international conference on world war ii from the national world war ii museum in new orleans. starting today at 9:00 a.m. eastern, with authors and historians discussing d-day, the war with japan, world war ii's greatest unheralded commanders, and lessons learned from the war. watch the international conference on world war ii, live today starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. announcer: tonight on -- kent state university professor ealing france teaches a class about being arrested america, from the 1850's to today. the clash took place at the correctional institution in ohio as part of the national inside out prison exchange program, which brings together college students and inmates for classes. here's a preview. i'm wondering if you can

comment during your research on the context of public demonstrations, or even protests, and what the effect of a public arrest would be throughout history. for instance, we know it may be a preventative measure to stop something from occurring, but maybe it actually insights more violence. that definitely is something that has been interesting to me, looking through the pittsburgh police records. in the 1960's and the early 1970's, basically after 1966, pittsburgh gets really serious about training officers for dealing with demonstrations, and one thing they do is they sit there and map out -- they sit there and map out, how can you effectively police a demonstration? it's very different than policing other areas. people are in solidarity with each other, and they are more

heavily -- they're in higher density. actually have strategies that they start to develop about e, the move in a wedg things we are familiar with today, and they were find them further. you can see that kind of technique and mapping being 1967,even as early as 1968, all over the country. announcer: you can watch the entire class, recorded at the trumbull correctional facility in ohio, tonight at 8:00 p.m. in and midnight eastern time. this is american history tv, only on c-span3. announcer: the academy award-winning world war ii film "saving private ryan" was released in theaters in 1998. the movie portrayed the 1944 d-day invasion of normandy, and

the mission to find a soldier behind enemy lines. next on american history tv, former national world war ii museum president nick meuller talks about the museum's connection to the film, and share stories about historian stephen ambrose, a consultant on "saving private ryan" and the museum's early founder. he also talks about the reaction of historians and military leaders to the film and its legacy today. this 35 minute even was part of a symposium held at the national world war ii museum in june to mark the 20th anniversary of the film's release. at 9:00 a.m. eastern, we will be live from the museum in new orleans for coverage of their international conference on world war ii. >> welcome back, everybody. last but not least. early this morning we mentioned that yesterday was the 74th anniversary of d-day, a slightly