C-SPAN 2 TV Schedule
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The Civil War: Wounded Soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
1 hour, 16 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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Lectures in History: Slavery in the Northern Colonies
1 hour, 14 minutesUniversity of South Carolina Professor Nicole Maskiell teaches a class on the early development of slavery in the northern American colonies. The University of South Carolina is located in Columbia, South Carolina.
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FDR & Churchill New Year's 1942 Church Service
15 minutesJohn Lawson and Reverend Noelle York-Simmons talked about President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proclamation of a National Day of Prayer for January 1, 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill worshiped together that day in George Washington's hometown church.
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A Friendship of Rivals - Gerald Ford & Jimmy Carter
1 hour, 10 minutesRepublican Gerald Ford and Democrat Jimmy Carter -- political rivals in the 1976 presidential campaign -- became lifelong friends who found common cause in the decades after they left the White House. What gave that friendship staying power - even as the country became more partisan? The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation & the Carter Center hosted this event.
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Reel America: President Reagan New Year's Radio Address - 1983
6 minutesPresident Ronald Reagan delivers a New Year's radio address to the nation on the topic of drunk driving prevention. This recording is from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum collections.
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Reel America: "Soviet Internal Propaganda" - 1985
16 minutesThis CIA film from 1985 details what the agency argued was a vast system of indoctrination in the Soviet Union which discouraged individualism and encouraged passive acceptance of Kremlin rule from cradle to grave. In 2011, the CIA's Information Management Services declassified over 200 documents regarding intelligence on the Soviet Union that the CIA provided the Reagan administration. Included in the release were video briefings created by the Directorate of Intelligence for policymakers.
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Lectures in History: Slavery in the Northern Colonies
1 hour, 14 minutesUniversity of South Carolina Professor Nicole Maskiell teaches a class on the early development of slavery in the northern American colonies. The University of South Carolina is located in Columbia, South Carolina.
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FDR & Churchill New Year's 1942 Church Service
15 minutesJohn Lawson and Reverend Noelle York-Simmons talked about President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proclamation of a National Day of Prayer for January 1, 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill worshiped together that day in George Washington's hometown church.
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A Friendship of Rivals - Gerald Ford & Jimmy Carter
1 hour, 10 minutesRepublican Gerald Ford and Democrat Jimmy Carter -- political rivals in the 1976 presidential campaign -- became lifelong friends who found common cause in the decades after they left the White House. What gave that friendship staying power - even as the country became more partisan? The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation & the Carter Center hosted this event.
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Reel America: President Reagan New Year's Radio Address - 1983
6 minutesPresident Ronald Reagan delivers a New Year's radio address to the nation on the topic of drunk driving prevention. This recording is from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum collections.
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Reel America: "Soviet Internal Propaganda" - 1985
16 minutesThis CIA film from 1985 details what the agency argued was a vast system of indoctrination in the Soviet Union which discouraged individualism and encouraged passive acceptance of Kremlin rule from cradle to grave. In 2011, the CIA's Information Management Services declassified over 200 documents regarding intelligence on the Soviet Union that the CIA provided the Reagan administration. Included in the release were video briefings created by the Directorate of Intelligence for policymakers.
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The Civil War: Civil War Pensions, Widows, and Orphans
1 hour, 14 minutesShenandoah University Civil War Institute director Jonathan Noyalas talked about how veterans and widows applied for pensions and the ways that states and military organizations provided for orphans after the war. This talk was part of a conference hosted by Shenandoah University's Civil War Institute.
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Michael Worden, "Lynched by a Mob"
1 hour, 18 minutesAuthor Michael Worden discussed the 1892 lynching of Robert Lewis, an African American man hanged on accusation of assaulting a white woman in Port Jervis, New York. The D&H Canal Museum in High Falls, New York, hosted this event.
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Historical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
1 hour, 10 minutesHistory Professors Matthew Jones (Princeton), Janet Abbate (Virginia Tech), Matthew Connelly (Columbia), and Jeffrey Yost (University of Minnesota) discussed the historical development of artificial intelligence. The American Historical Association hosted this discussion as part of a Congressional briefing series.
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Robert Oppenheimer's Legacy
1 hour, 15 minutes"Father of the atomic bomb," Robert Oppenheimer's life and evolving legacy was the topic of a discussion hosted by Indiana Wesleyan University. Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird ("American Prometheus"), Washington Post reporter Jada Yuan ("Unleashing Oppenheimer") and Department of Energy advisor Narayan Subramanian participated in this event.
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Phillip Dodd, "An American Renaissance"
1 hour, 0 minuteAuthor Phillip Dodd discussed the finest examples of Beaux-Arts Architecture associated with the opulence of the Gilded Age (1877-1920) and the stories of those who commissioned, designed, and built them. The Greenwich Historical Society in Cos Cob, Connecticut, hosted this event.
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Lectures in History: Slavery in the Northern Colonies
1 hour, 15 minutesUniversity of South Carolina Professor Nicole Maskiell teaches a class on the early development of slavery in the northern American colonies. The University of South Carolina is located in Columbia, South Carolina.
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FDR & Churchill New Year's 1942 Church Service
15 minutesJohn Lawson and Reverend Noelle York-Simmons talked about President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proclamation of a National Day of Prayer for January 1, 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill worshiped together that day in George Washington's hometown church.
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A Friendship of Rivals - Gerald Ford & Jimmy Carter
1 hour, 10 minutesRepublican Gerald Ford and Democrat Jimmy Carter -- political rivals in the 1976 presidential campaign -- became lifelong friends who found common cause in the decades after they left the White House. What gave that friendship staying power - even as the country became more partisan? The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation & the Carter Center hosted this event.
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Reel America: President Reagan New Year's Radio Address - 1983
6 minutesPresident Ronald Reagan delivers a New Year's radio address to the nation on the topic of drunk driving prevention. This recording is from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum collections.
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Reel America: "Soviet Internal Propaganda" - 1985
16 minutesThis CIA film from 1985 details what the agency argued was a vast system of indoctrination in the Soviet Union which discouraged individualism and encouraged passive acceptance of Kremlin rule from cradle to grave. In 2011, the CIA's Information Management Services declassified over 200 documents regarding intelligence on the Soviet Union that the CIA provided the Reagan administration. Included in the release were video briefings created by the Directorate of Intelligence for policymakers.
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Lectures in History: Slavery in the Northern Colonies
1 hour, 13 minutesUniversity of South Carolina Professor Nicole Maskiell teaches a class on the early development of slavery in the northern American colonies. The University of South Carolina is located in Columbia, South Carolina.
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FDR & Churchill New Year's 1942 Church Service
16 minutesJohn Lawson and Reverend Noelle York-Simmons talked about President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proclamation of a National Day of Prayer for January 1, 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill worshiped together that day in George Washington's hometown church.
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A Friendship of Rivals - Gerald Ford & Jimmy Carter
1 hour, 10 minutesRepublican Gerald Ford and Democrat Jimmy Carter -- political rivals in the 1976 presidential campaign -- became lifelong friends who found common cause in the decades after they left the White House. What gave that friendship staying power - even as the country became more partisan? The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation & the Carter Center hosted this event.
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Reel America: President Reagan New Year's Radio Address - 1983
5 minutesPresident Ronald Reagan delivers a New Year's radio address to the nation on the topic of drunk driving prevention. This recording is from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum collections.
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Reel America: "Soviet Internal Propaganda" - 1985
16 minutesThis CIA film from 1985 details what the agency argued was a vast system of indoctrination in the Soviet Union which discouraged individualism and encouraged passive acceptance of Kremlin rule from cradle to grave. In 2011, the CIA's Information Management Services declassified over 200 documents regarding intelligence on the Soviet Union that the CIA provided the Reagan administration. Included in the release were video briefings created by the Directorate of Intelligence for policymakers.
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The Civil War: Civil War Pensions, Widows, and Orphans
1 hour, 13 minutesShenandoah University Civil War Institute director Jonathan Noyalas talked about how veterans and widows applied for pensions and the ways that states and military organizations provided for orphans after the war. This talk was part of a conference hosted by Shenandoah University's Civil War Institute.
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Michael Worden, "Lynched by a Mob"
1 hour, 20 minutesAuthor Michael Worden discussed the 1892 lynching of Robert Lewis, an African American man hanged on accusation of assaulting a white woman in Port Jervis, New York. The D&H Canal Museum in High Falls, New York, hosted this event.
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Historical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
1 hour, 10 minutesHistory Professors Matthew Jones (Princeton), Janet Abbate (Virginia Tech), Matthew Connelly (Columbia), and Jeffrey Yost (University of Minnesota) discussed the historical development of artificial intelligence. The American Historical Association hosted this discussion as part of a Congressional briefing series.
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Robert Oppenheimer's Legacy
1 hour, 13 minutes"Father of the atomic bomb," Robert Oppenheimer's life and evolving legacy was the topic of a discussion hosted by Indiana Wesleyan University. Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird ("American Prometheus"), Washington Post reporter Jada Yuan ("Unleashing Oppenheimer") and Department of Energy advisor Narayan Subramanian participated in this event.
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American History TV
1 hour, 2 minutesPeople and events that help document the American Story.