As the U.S. withdraws military and diplomatic personnel from Afghanistan, we look back nearly 40 years at that country's history. Starting at 4:40pm ET on C-SPAN 2, watch two U.S. Information Agency films on the aftermath of the Soviet invasion, followed by former CIA officer Duane Evans talking about his tour of duty in southern Afghanistan shortly after the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks. | American History TV

50K views · 198 reactions | How did the Bay of Pigs operation change and what went wrong? Find out this and more about national intelligence under John F. Kennedy on Lectures in History. Class taught by former CIA historian, Nicholas Dujmovic. WATCH Saturday at 8pm ET on C-SPAN3. | American History TV | Facebook

47K views · 81 reactions | "Lectures in History" has a new time & channel! Watch at 8am & 8pm ET on C-SPAN 2. This weekend, professor Felix Harcourt talks about how conspiracy theories about UFOs have shaped American culture. "With this divorce from physical evidence, virtually any conspiracy theory is possible." https://www.c-span.org/video/?425446-1/20th-century-ufo-conspiracies | American History TV | Facebook