C-SPAN 2 TV Schedule
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Hearing on Regulating Capital Markets
1 hour, 52 minutesA House Financial Services subcommittee held a public hearing to examine the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) oversight and regulatory enforcement of U.S. capital markets. Witnesses testifying included two former SEC officials and industry experts.
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Lectures in History: World War II Battle of the Atlantic
54 minutesUniversity of Notre Dame military history professor Ian Ona Johnson discussed the contest for control of Atlantic sea routes during World War II. The University of Notre Dame is located in Indiana.
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Reel America: "Alaska Highway" - 1944
36 minutesThe U.S. Army Signal Corps documented the difficult task of building a 1,500 mile highway through the Canadian wilderness as a World War II supply route from the lower 48 states to Fairbanks, Alaska. The highway connected several airfields and isolated ports on the Alaska panhandle. It was opened to the public in 1948.
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Jacqueline Kennedy's 1962 Televised White House Tour
40 minutesFirst lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave Americans a televised tour of the restored White House public rooms on Valentine's Day 1962. A reported 56 million viewers tuned into the CBS broadcast. James Wagner -- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum exhibits specialist - talked in this virtual program about Mrs. Kennedy's restoration and the tour that captured the nation's imagination.
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Dick & Pat Nixon World War II Love Letters
40 minutesThe World War II correspondence between Richard and Patricia Nixon - he serving with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific and she part of the war effort in San Francisco - recently was made public. Author Heath Hardage Lee talked about their letters and wartime experiences in this virtual program hosted by the White House Historical Association.
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Reel America: Housing News from 1935
9 minutesThis Better Housing News Flash film from 1935 showed short pieces on news and lifestyle topics from that year, including government assistance programs for building modernization. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films produced mostly by government agencies.
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Lectures in History: World War II Battle of the Atlantic
55 minutesUniversity of Notre Dame military history professor Ian Ona Johnson discussed the contest for control of Atlantic sea routes during World War II. The University of Notre Dame is located in Indiana.
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Reel America: "Alaska Highway" - 1944
36 minutesThe U.S. Army Signal Corps documented the difficult task of building a 1,500 mile highway through the Canadian wilderness as a World War II supply route from the lower 48 states to Fairbanks, Alaska. The highway connected several airfields and isolated ports on the Alaska panhandle. It was opened to the public in 1948.
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Jacqueline Kennedy's 1962 Televised White House Tour
40 minutesFirst lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave Americans a televised tour of the restored White House public rooms on Valentine's Day 1962. A reported 56 million viewers tuned into the CBS broadcast. James Wagner -- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum exhibits specialist - talked in this virtual program about Mrs. Kennedy's restoration and the tour that captured the nation's imagination.
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Dick & Pat Nixon World War II Love Letters
40 minutesThe World War II correspondence between Richard and Patricia Nixon - he serving with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific and she part of the war effort in San Francisco - recently was made public. Author Heath Hardage Lee talked about their letters and wartime experiences in this virtual program hosted by the White House Historical Association.
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Reel America: Housing News from 1935
9 minutesThis Better Housing News Flash film from 1935 showed short pieces on news and lifestyle topics from that year, including government assistance programs for building modernization. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films produced mostly by government agencies.
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The Civil War: Wounded Soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
1 hour, 15 minutesHistorian Wayne E. Motts discussed patients treated during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. From the barn where the 11th Corps Union Army Hospital was based, on George and Elizabeth Spangler's property in Gettysburg, he talked about Southern soldiers who were cared for alongside Union wounded. The Gettysburg Foundation in Pennsylvania hosted this event.
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Scott Shane, "Flee North"
1 hour, 0 minutePulitzer Prize-winning author Scott Shane recounted the life of Thomas Smallwood, a slave who bought his freedom & helped hundreds to escape slavery. The Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore hosted this event.
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Historical Discussion on Huck Finn
45 minutesHigh school teachers talked about Mark Twain's novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and its legacy. They discussed the controversy surrounding the book and how perception of the book has changed over time.
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Peter Moore, "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness"
1 hour, 0 minuteEnglish historian Peter Moore discussed the generation that preceded the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the influence of leading figures on the ideas that started the American Revolution. This event was part of the American Inspiration series from American Ancestors and the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
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1973 Saturday Night Massacre 50th Anniversary
2 hours, 1 minutePresident Richard Nixon's firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox on October 20, 1973, set off a chain of political and legal events that left his presidency hanging in the balance. Fifty years later, key players convened to talk about their roles, and the larger implications for the presidency and the country. Speakers included the Washington Post's Bob Woodward, Watergate Assistant Special Prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, and Nixon White House Counsel John Dean.
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Lectures in History: World War II Battle of the Atlantic
54 minutesUniversity of Notre Dame military history professor Ian Ona Johnson discussed the contest for control of Atlantic sea routes during World War II. The University of Notre Dame is located in Indiana.
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Reel America: "Alaska Highway" - 1944
36 minutesThe U.S. Army Signal Corps documented the difficult task of building a 1,500 mile highway through the Canadian wilderness as a World War II supply route from the lower 48 states to Fairbanks, Alaska. The highway connected several airfields and isolated ports on the Alaska panhandle. It was opened to the public in 1948.
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Jacqueline Kennedy's 1962 Televised White House Tour
40 minutesFirst lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave Americans a televised tour of the restored White House public rooms on Valentine's Day 1962. A reported 56 million viewers tuned into the CBS broadcast. James Wagner -- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum exhibits specialist - talked in this virtual program about Mrs. Kennedy's restoration and the tour that captured the nation's imagination.
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Dick & Pat Nixon World War II Love Letters
41 minutesThe World War II correspondence between Richard and Patricia Nixon - he serving with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific and she part of the war effort in San Francisco - recently was made public. Author Heath Hardage Lee talked about their letters and wartime experiences in this virtual program hosted by the White House Historical Association.
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Reel America: Housing News from 1935
8 minutesThis Better Housing News Flash film from 1935 showed short pieces on news and lifestyle topics from that year, including government assistance programs for building modernization. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films produced mostly by government agencies.
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Lectures in History: World War II Battle of the Atlantic
55 minutesUniversity of Notre Dame military history professor Ian Ona Johnson discussed the contest for control of Atlantic sea routes during World War II. The University of Notre Dame is located in Indiana.
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Reel America: "Alaska Highway" - 1944
36 minutesThe U.S. Army Signal Corps documented the difficult task of building a 1,500 mile highway through the Canadian wilderness as a World War II supply route from the lower 48 states to Fairbanks, Alaska. The highway connected several airfields and isolated ports on the Alaska panhandle. It was opened to the public in 1948.
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Jacqueline Kennedy's 1962 Televised White House Tour
40 minutesFirst lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave Americans a televised tour of the restored White House public rooms on Valentine's Day 1962. A reported 56 million viewers tuned into the CBS broadcast. James Wagner -- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum exhibits specialist - talked in this virtual program about Mrs. Kennedy's restoration and the tour that captured the nation's imagination.
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Dick & Pat Nixon World War II Love Letters
40 minutesThe World War II correspondence between Richard and Patricia Nixon - he serving with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific and she part of the war effort in San Francisco - recently was made public. Author Heath Hardage Lee talked about their letters and wartime experiences in this virtual program hosted by the White House Historical Association.
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Reel America: Housing News from 1935
9 minutesThis Better Housing News Flash film from 1935 showed short pieces on news and lifestyle topics from that year, including government assistance programs for building modernization. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films produced mostly by government agencies.
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The Civil War: Wounded Soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
1 hour, 15 minutesHistorian Wayne E. Motts discussed patients treated during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. From the barn where the 11th Corps Union Army Hospital was based, on George and Elizabeth Spangler's property in Gettysburg, he talked about Southern soldiers who were cared for alongside Union wounded. The Gettysburg Foundation in Pennsylvania hosted this event.
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Scott Shane, "Flee North"
1 hour, 0 minutePulitzer Prize-winning author Scott Shane recounted the life of Thomas Smallwood, a slave who bought his freedom & helped hundreds to escape slavery. The Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore hosted this event.
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Historical Discussion on Huck Finn
45 minutesHigh school teachers talked about Mark Twain's novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and its legacy. They discussed the controversy surrounding the book and how perception of the book has changed over time.
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Peter Moore, "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness"
1 hour, 0 minuteEnglish historian Peter Moore discussed the generation that preceded the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the influence of leading figures on the ideas that started the American Revolution. This event was part of the American Inspiration series from American Ancestors and the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
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1973 Saturday Night Massacre 50th Anniversary
2 hours, 2 minutesPresident Richard Nixon's firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox on October 20, 1973, set off a chain of political and legal events that left his presidency hanging in the balance. Fifty years later, key players convened to talk about their roles, and the larger implications for the presidency and the country. Speakers included the Washington Post's Bob Woodward, Watergate Assistant Special Prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, and Nixon White House Counsel John Dean.