Bill Moyers speaks with historian Simon Schama, who spent months traveling across America in the run-up to an historic election to discover what events in our nation's past can tell us about how we live today and what's in store for the future.

Bill Moyers speaks with historian Simon Schama, who spent months traveling across America in the run-up to an historic election to discover what events in our nation's past can tell us about how we live today and what's in store for the future. In his four-part BBC series "The American Future: A History," Schama looks at how conflicts in the past resonate in political life today, addressing such issues as land resources, war, faith and immigration. Schama is professor of art history and history at Columbia University in New York, and he also has written and presented more than 30 documentaries for the BBC.