C-SPAN 2 TV Schedule
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The Civil War: National Museum of the Civil War Soldier - 1864 Battle of Cold Harbor
1 hour, 3 minutesHistorian Gordon Rhea discussed the Civil War Battle of Cold Harbor, Confederate Gen. Lee's last major victory and a bloodbath for the Union army. The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersburg, Virginia, hosted this event.
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Caroline Janney, "Ends of War"
53 minutesUniversity of Virginia Center for Civil War History director Caroline Janney examined military and political uncertainty in the weeks following the end of the Civil War in 1865. This program was part of the Lincoln Forum's annual meeting in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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The Civil War: Lincoln's Journey to Washington
1 hour, 5 minutesHistorian Ted Widmer traced Abraham Lincoln's trip to Washington through a divided country before his first inauguration in 1861. The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia, hosted this discussion.
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CIA Museum Tour
43 minutesAmerican History TV toured the CIA Museum at the agency's Langley, Virginia, headquarters. Director and curator Robert Byer highlighted covert action tools of the trade in the CIA's collection, dating from the Cold War to 21st century terrorism. The museum was created primarily for CIA employees - as a resource for their ongoing work - and is not open to the general public.
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Reel America: "The Wall" - 1962
11 minutesThis 1962 U.S. Information Agency film produced by Hearst Metrotone News showed the situation before the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 and the changes in the year following. Scenes showed families attempting to communicate across the wall and many successful and unsuccessful escape attempts, including 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who was shot and left to die beside the wall on August 17, 1962. Scenes were also shown of the August 13, 1962, commemoration in West Berlin of the first anniversary of the wall.
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U.S. Senate: 06/01/2023
13 hours, 28 minutesThe Senate will vote on a House-passed resolution repealing an Education Department rule on federal student loan forgiveness. Senators are also expected to begin work on the debt limit-federal spending deal legislation once it's received from the House.
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CIA Museum Tour
47 minutesAmerican History TV toured the CIA Museum at the agency's Langley, Virginia, headquarters. Director and curator Robert Byer highlighted covert action tools of the trade in the CIA's collection, dating from the Cold War to 21st century terrorism. The museum was created primarily for CIA employees - as a resource for their ongoing work - and is not open to the general public.
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Ronald Reagan's Role in Ending the Cold War
1 hour, 35 minutesOn March 8, 1983, Ronald Reagan declared the Soviet Union an "Evil Empire" in a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals. The Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C., convened political and foreign policy experts to assess Mr. Reagan's role in ending the Cold War. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute co-hosted this event.
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Lectures in History: The Cold War & the Atomic Apocalypse
1 hour, 27 minutesUniversity of Maryland professor Piotr Kosicki taught a class on the Cold War and the concept of the atomic apocalypse. The University of Maryland is located in College Park, Maryland.
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Victims of Communism Museum Tour
47 minutesAmerican History TV toured the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C., with founding director Elizabeth Spalding. The museum is within sight of the White House, and is designed to tell a story of political domination and persecution spanning more than a century and across national boundaries, from Lenin in Russia to Mao in China. Artifacts include a medical x-ray repurposed into a Beatles record in the old Soviet Union, and a transistor radio used to navigate out of communist-held Cambodia.
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Jeff Shesol, "Mercury Rising - John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War
1 hour, 0 minuteAuthor Jeff Shesol talked about why President Kennedy placed his Cold War hopes, at the height of Soviet tensions, in astronaut John Glenn's February 20, 1962, orbit of Earth aboard Friendship 7. His book is "Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War." The University of Virginia Miller Center hosted this virtual event.
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Reel America: Face to Face with Communism - 1951
28 minutesThis 1951 Armed Forces Information Service film dramatizes the effects of an imagined Communist invasion on an American small town. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films produced mostly by government agencies.
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Reel America: "The Wall" - 1962
12 minutesThis 1962 U.S. Information Agency film produced by Hearst Metrotone News showed the situation before the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 and the changes in the year following. Scenes showed families attempting to communicate across the wall and many successful and unsuccessful escape attempts, including 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who was shot and left to die beside the wall on August 17, 1962. Scenes were also shown of the August 13, 1962, commemoration in West Berlin of the first anniversary of the wall.
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CIA Museum Tour
44 minutesAmerican History TV toured the CIA Museum at the agency's Langley, Virginia, headquarters. Director and curator Robert Byer highlighted covert action tools of the trade in the CIA's collection, dating from the Cold War to 21st century terrorism. The museum was created primarily for CIA employees - as a resource for their ongoing work - and is not open to the general public.
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Ronald Reagan's Role in Ending the Cold War
1 hour, 31 minutesOn March 8, 1983, Ronald Reagan declared the Soviet Union an "Evil Empire" in a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals. The Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C., convened political and foreign policy experts to assess Mr. Reagan's role in ending the Cold War. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute co-hosted this event.