C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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Lectures in History: Mid-20th Century American Oil Interests
1 hour, 15 minutesUniversity of Notre Dame professor Darren Dochuk teaches a class about mid-20th century American oil interests. He describes the east Texas oil boom and the expansion of US oil businesses abroad to places like Saudi Arabia and Alberta, Canada. He argues that religion played a significant role in the worldview and business practices of both global companies and individual prospectors in the industry.
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Special Forces in Cold War Berlin
59 minutesJames Stejskal talks about the classified U.S. Army Special Forces detachments that were stationed in Berlin, Germany for over 30 years. He is author of "Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the U.S. Army's Elite, 1956-1990." The Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security hosted this program.
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The Civil War: New York City During the Civil War
1 hour, 5 minutesHistorians discuss New York City during the Civil War, emphasizing residents' divided loyalties despite being in a Union state. They give examples of the city's southern economic ties as well as the prominent Union regiments raised from New York. They also discuss the causes and effects of the city's draft riots in 1863. The New-York Historical Society hosted this event.
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Life & Legacy of Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger
55 minutesNew York University law school professor and NYU President Emeritus John Sexton talks about the life and legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger. Mr. Sexton served as law clerk to Justice Burger in 1980-81. The Supreme Court Historical Society hosted this event at the Supreme Court.
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Lectures in History: Jonathan Barth on the Presidency of Andrew Jackson
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The Manhattan Project
1 hour, 55 minutesThe Manhattan Project is the subject of a lecture by George Mason University history professor Martin Sherwin. He's the author of, "A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies," and co-author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Mr. Sherwin details the development of the atomic bomb, beginning with the discovery of fission in 1938 through the bombing of the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this event in Washington, DC.
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Reel America: "Nurses in the Army" - 1954
30 minutes"Nurses in the Army" looks at the work of peacetime nurses in the mid-1950s in Korea, Japan, Hawaii, and Germany. This is an episode of "The Big Picture," a weekly television series produced by the U.S. Army between 1950 and 1975. The program was recently restored by the National Archives.
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Reel America: "The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson" - 1961
25 minutesHosted by former President Herbert Hoover, this Encyclopaedia Britannica film details Woodrow Wilson's efforts to influence the Versailles Peace Treaty following World War I, and his failed push to win Senate approval of U.S. membership in the new League of Nations. The film is based on Herbert Hoover's book by the same title. Mr. Hoover served as President Wilson's director of the U.S. Food Administration during World War I, overseeing distribution of food to the allies.
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1917 Selective Service Act & History of the Draft
1 hour, 10 minutesTo mark the centennial of Selective Service, historians Richard Faulkner and Beth Bailey discuss the evolution of the military draft in the United States from the Civil War to the Vietnam War and beyond, when military service eventually became voluntary. Shortly after declaring war on Germany, the U.S. Congress passed and President Wilson signed the Selective Service Act on May 18, 1917. The act required men ages 21 to 30 to register for military service.
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Reel America: "Home Front 1917-1919, War Transforms American Life" - 1965
20 minutesEducational film narrated by actor Robert Ryan shows how World War I brought about industrial growth and increased government involvement in the U.S. economy, and led to suppression of dissent, deportations, and pro-war government propaganda efforts by the Committee on Public Information.
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1917 to the Present
1 hour, 5 minutesThe Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College in Pennsylvania recently hosted a two-day conference titled "The God That Failed: Communism & Socialism Then and Now." In this program, three scholars open the conference with a discussion of the influence of communism and socialism around the world since the 1917 Russian Revolution one hundred years ago. They also discuss how socialism was viewed in the United States in the past and its influence in the twenty-first century; including the presidential run of Senator Bernie Sanders.
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Justice Thurgood Marshall's Legacy
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Public Affairs Events
38 minutesPublic affairs events, congressional hearings, speeches, and interviews.
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Reel America: The Black American Heroes of World War I"
1 hour, 0 minuteThe soldiers of the 369th U.S. Infantry Regiment, an all-black unit known as the "Harlem Hellfighters," served with the French army in World War I. This documentary uses interviews with WWI veterans, photographs, and archival film to tell their story. The film was directed by Harlem-born filmmaker William Miles.
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Reel America: "On the Firing Line with the Germans" - 1915
2 hours, 0 minuteTwo WWI film scholars and two Library of Congress preservationists describe how this film was rediscovered and restored by the Library of Congress. The entire film is then shown with commentary by the two scholars. In the spring of 1915, American journalist Wilbur Durborough & cinematographer Guy Ries left Chicago bound for Berlin, Germany. They traveled with the German army to the front lines in East Prussia and Poland and shot 25,000 feet of film, about five and a half hours. They returned to the United States in September of 1915 and in November released the 108-minute feature film "On the Firing Line with the Germans." The film received positive reviews and screened widely in the United States, despite the fact that it presented a favorable view of the Germans.
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Reel America: The Black American Heroes of World War I"
1 hour, 0 minuteThe soldiers of the 369th U.S. Infantry Regiment, an all-black unit known as the "Harlem Hellfighters," served with the French army in World War I. This documentary uses interviews with WWI veterans, photographs, and archival film to tell their story. The film was directed by Harlem-born filmmaker William Miles.
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Reel America: "On the Firing Line with the Germans" - 1915
2 hours, 0 minuteTwo WWI film scholars and two Library of Congress preservationists describe how this film was rediscovered and restored by the Library of Congress. The entire film is then shown with commentary by the two scholars. In the spring of 1915, American journalist Wilbur Durborough & cinematographer Guy Ries left Chicago bound for Berlin, Germany. They traveled with the German army to the front lines in East Prussia and Poland and shot 25,000 feet of film, about five and a half hours. They returned to the United States in September of 1915 and in November released the 108-minute feature film "On the Firing Line with the Germans." The film received positive reviews and screened widely in the United States, despite the fact that it presented a favorable view of the Germans.
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Special Forces in Cold War Berlin
1 hour, 0 minuteJames Stejskal talks about the classified U.S. Army Special Forces detachments that were stationed in Berlin, Germany for over 30 years. He is author of "Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the U.S. Army's Elite, 1956-1990." The Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security hosted this program.
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The Civil War: New York City During the Civil War
1 hour, 5 minutesHistorians discuss New York City during the Civil War, emphasizing residents' divided loyalties despite being in a Union state. They give examples of the city's southern economic ties as well as the prominent Union regiments raised from New York. They also discuss the causes and effects of the city's draft riots in 1863. The New-York Historical Society hosted this event.
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Life & Legacy of Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger
55 minutesNew York University law school professor and NYU President Emeritus John Sexton talks about the life and legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger. Mr. Sexton served as law clerk to Justice Burger in 1980-81. The Supreme Court Historical Society hosted this event at the Supreme Court.
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Lectures in History: Jonathan Barth on the Presidency of Andrew Jackson
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The Manhattan Project
1 hour, 54 minutesThe Manhattan Project is the subject of a lecture by George Mason University history professor Martin Sherwin. He's the author of, "A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies," and co-author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Mr. Sherwin details the development of the atomic bomb, beginning with the discovery of fission in 1938 through the bombing of the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this event in Washington, DC.