C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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Eastern Europe After World War I
59 minutesUniversity of Kansas professor Nathan Wood looked at the state of Eastern European countries in the aftermath of World War I and following the collapse of the German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires. He discussed the reasons for the violence and chaos that continued in countries such as Bolshevik Russia and in newly formed states such as Poland and Hungary. The National World War I Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri hosted this talk as part of their annual symposium.
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The Rise & Fall of Prohibition
1 hour, 11 minutesThe Smithsonian Associates hosted this event in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of Prohibition enforcement in January of 1920. Historian, author, and tour guide Garrett Peck discussed the rise and fall of the 13 year experiment in America. He is the author of, "The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet" and "Prohibition in Washington, D.C.: How Dry We Weren't." Prohibition was a constitutional amendment banning the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors in the United States.
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Lectures in History: 1960s African American Voter Registration
50 minutesEmory University professor Carol Anderson taught a class about efforts in the early 1960s to register African American voters in Mississippi. She described some of the leaders of the movement, their tactics and the opposition they faced from segregationists.
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The Civil War: Fall 1863 Virginia Campaigns
1 hour, 39 minutesCivil War scholar Jeffrey Hunt detailed the movements of General George Meade and Union forces from July to December 1863 as they followed Confederates through Virginia. This event was part of Pamplin Historical Park's "Small Battles, Big Results" symposium.
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Medicaid and Medicare Since the 1960s
21 minutesGeorge Aumoithe, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University, discussed the history of universal healthcare in the United States. Beginning in the 1960s, he explained the rise of Medicaid and Medicare, and how the debate surrounding healthcare has evolved. This interview was recorded at the annual American Historical Association meeting.
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Lectures in History: Neutrality & World War I America
1 hour, 5 minutesUniversity of Minnesota professor Saje Mathieu taught a class about "neutrality" and what that concept meant in World War I America. She explained how neutrality did not mean inactivity, as the U.S. sold materials to both the Allied and Central Powers, helping both sides continue the fight. She also talked about how the U.S. viewed itself as the defender of democracy and sought to police certain nations and ethnic groups, yet faced criticism for how it treated its own dissenters and minorities.
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Black Cowboys in the American West
55 minutesHistorian Michael Searles talked about his book, "Black Cowboys in the American West: On the Range, on the Stage, Behind the Badge." Using images of black cowboys, Professor Searles discussed their experiences in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Tesoro Cultural Center in Morrison, Colorado hosted this event.
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Campaign: Bill Clinton Campaign Appearance
38 minutesOn Road to the White House Rewind, we look back to the 1992 campaign of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. He announced his candidacy on October 3, 1991, and five days later visited Franklin High School in New Hampshire, where he ate lunch, played basketball and took questions from students.
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Campaign: Road to the White House
27 minutesEach week until the 2016 presidential election, American History TV brings you archival coverage of presidential races. On Road to the White House Rewind, we look back to the 2000 campaign of Republican George W. Bush on his first trip to New Hampshire after announcng his candidacy. The Texas Governor went on to win the Republican nomination and defeated Vice President Al Gore in the general election. The race was among the most highly contested in U.S. history and was not decided until five weeks after voters went to the polls, when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a Florida recount. This ultimately awarded the state's electoral votes -- and the presidency -- to Governor Bush.
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Campaign: George W. Bush Campaign Event
9 minutesEach week until the 2016 presidential election, American History TV brings you archival coverage of presidential races. On Road to the White House Rewind, we look back to the 2000 campaign of Republican George W. Bush as he meets with citizens and takes questions from reporters in Keene, New Hampshire. The Texas Governor went on to win the Republican nomination and then defeated Vice President Al Gore in the general election. The race was among the most highly contested in U.S. history and was not decided until five weeks after voters went to the polls, when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a Florida recount. This ultimately awarded the state's electoral votes -- and the presidency -- to Governor Bush.
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Campaign: George W. Bush Campaign Event
21 minutesEach week until the 2016 presidential election, American History TV brings you archival coverage of presidential races. On Road to the White House Rewind, we look back to the 2000 campaign of Republican George W. Bush. In Keene, New Hamphsire in October, 1999 he meets with citizens and learns about the town's pumpkin festival. The Texas Governor went on to win the Republican nomination and then defeated Vice President Al Gore in the general election. The race was among the most highly contested in U.S. history and was not decided until five weeks after voters went to the polls, when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a Florida recount. This ultimately awarded the state's electoral votes -- and the presidency -- to Governor Bush.
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Drinking in the Antebellum Congress
19 minutesProfessor Thomas Balcerski talked about the prevalence of drinking in both the political and social life of congressional representatives before the Civil War. This interview was recorded at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City.
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Reel America: January 1945 United Newsreel
6 minutesThis 1945 Office of War Information United Newsreel includes five stories: President Franklin Roosevelt is inaugurated for a fourth term in a ceremony at the White House, a Coast Guard helicopter demonstrates a sea rescue, a Japanese airbase on Puerto Princesa Island in the Philippines is bombed, ice breakers work on Lake Michigan, and fighting in Burma (Myanmar) is shown.
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Reel America: "Election 1976 - Presidential Elections"
32 minutesDuring the bicentennial year of 1976, the U.S. Information Agency produced a series of eight programs about the election process for foreign audiences. This first episode includes a short documentary on presidential election history since the first party convention in 1831, a discussion with three political analysts about how the system has evolved, and profiles of each of the major candidates in 1976.
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Reel America: "Election 1976 - The Primaries"
32 minutesThree political analysts discuss the presidential primary system as it existed in 1976, the race between incumbent President Gerald Ford and challenger Ronald Reagan, and their ideas for reforming the nomination system. This U.S. Information Agency program was produced for international audiences.
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75th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation
2 hours, 47 minutesForeign dignitaries and Holocaust survivors gathered to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp run by Nazis during World War II. The ceremony concluded with a candle vigil held in memory of those killed at the concentration camp.
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Marion Cheek Jackson Center
9 minutesMembers of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center discussed Chapel Hill's Civil Rights history, including the Chapel Hill Nine sit-in on February 28, 1960.
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1999 State of the Union Address
1 hour, 25 minutesPresident Bill Clinton delivered a State of the Union address on January 19, 1999. At the time of this speech, his Senate impeachment trial was underway.
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Reel America: "Election 1976 - Presidential Elections"
35 minutesDuring the bicentennial year of 1976, the U.S. Information Agency produced a series of eight programs about the election process for foreign audiences. This first episode includes a short documentary on presidential election history since the first party convention in 1831, a discussion with three political analysts about how the system has evolved, and profiles of each of the major candidates in 1976.
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Campaign: Bill Clinton Campaign Appearance
39 minutesOn Road to the White House Rewind, we look back to the 1992 campaign of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. He announced his candidacy on October 3, 1991, and five days later visited Franklin High School in New Hampshire, where he ate lunch, played basketball and took questions from students.
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Campaign: Road to the White House
26 minutesEach week until the 2016 presidential election, American History TV brings you archival coverage of presidential races. On Road to the White House Rewind, we look back to the 2000 campaign of Republican George W. Bush on his first trip to New Hampshire after announcng his candidacy. The Texas Governor went on to win the Republican nomination and defeated Vice President Al Gore in the general election. The race was among the most highly contested in U.S. history and was not decided until five weeks after voters went to the polls, when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a Florida recount. This ultimately awarded the state's electoral votes -- and the presidency -- to Governor Bush.
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Campaign: George W. Bush Campaign Event
9 minutesEach week until the 2016 presidential election, American History TV brings you archival coverage of presidential races. On Road to the White House Rewind, we look back to the 2000 campaign of Republican George W. Bush as he meets with citizens and takes questions from reporters in Keene, New Hampshire. The Texas Governor went on to win the Republican nomination and then defeated Vice President Al Gore in the general election. The race was among the most highly contested in U.S. history and was not decided until five weeks after voters went to the polls, when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a Florida recount. This ultimately awarded the state's electoral votes -- and the presidency -- to Governor Bush.
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Campaign: George W. Bush Campaign Event
21 minutesEach week until the 2016 presidential election, American History TV brings you archival coverage of presidential races. On Road to the White House Rewind, we look back to the 2000 campaign of Republican George W. Bush. In Keene, New Hamphsire in October, 1999 he meets with citizens and learns about the town's pumpkin festival. The Texas Governor went on to win the Republican nomination and then defeated Vice President Al Gore in the general election. The race was among the most highly contested in U.S. history and was not decided until five weeks after voters went to the polls, when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a Florida recount. This ultimately awarded the state's electoral votes -- and the presidency -- to Governor Bush.
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Drinking in the Antebellum Congress
20 minutesProfessor Thomas Balcerski talked about the prevalence of drinking in both the political and social life of congressional representatives before the Civil War. This interview was recorded at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City.
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Reel America: January 1945 United Newsreel
5 minutesThis 1945 Office of War Information United Newsreel includes five stories: President Franklin Roosevelt is inaugurated for a fourth term in a ceremony at the White House, a Coast Guard helicopter demonstrates a sea rescue, a Japanese airbase on Puerto Princesa Island in the Philippines is bombed, ice breakers work on Lake Michigan, and fighting in Burma (Myanmar) is shown.
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1999 State of the Union Address
1 hour, 25 minutesPresident Bill Clinton delivered a State of the Union address on January 19, 1999. At the time of this speech, his Senate impeachment trial was underway.
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Reel America: January 1945 United Newsreel
5 minutesThis 1945 Office of War Information United Newsreel includes five stories: President Franklin Roosevelt is inaugurated for a fourth term in a ceremony at the White House, a Coast Guard helicopter demonstrates a sea rescue, a Japanese airbase on Puerto Princesa Island in the Philippines is bombed, ice breakers work on Lake Michigan, and fighting in Burma (Myanmar) is shown.
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American Artifacts: Civil War Surgery & Embalming
30 minutesAt the annual Gettysburg Civil War Battle Reenactment, we visited a camp surgeon and embalmer in the living history village and spoke to reenactors about medical practices during the war.
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Reel America: "Election 1976 - The Primaries"
31 minutesThree political analysts discuss the presidential primary system as it existed in 1976, the race between incumbent President Gerald Ford and challenger Ronald Reagan, and their ideas for reforming the nomination system. This U.S. Information Agency program was produced for international audiences.
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Reel America: "Election 1976 - Presidential Elections"
34 minutesDuring the bicentennial year of 1976, the U.S. Information Agency produced a series of eight programs about the election process for foreign audiences. This first episode includes a short documentary on presidential election history since the first party convention in 1831, a discussion with three political analysts about how the system has evolved, and profiles of each of the major candidates in 1976.
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Lectures in History: U.S. Expansion & Hawaii
50 minutesJohnson County Community College professor Tai Edwards taught a class about the expansion of the United States during the Spanish-American War and the acquisition of Hawaii. She examined the goals of the U.S. in gaining new territory and the debates at the time about having an overseas empire.
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Reel America: January 27, 1964 Universal Newsreel
5 minutesThis newsreel covers Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) announcing her candidacy for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination, and a story about a Defense Department experimental vehicle.
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The Rise & Fall of Prohibition
1 hour, 10 minutesThe Smithsonian Associates hosted this event in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of Prohibition enforcement in January of 1920. Historian, author, and tour guide Garrett Peck discussed the rise and fall of the 13 year experiment in America. He is the author of, "The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet" and "Prohibition in Washington, D.C.: How Dry We Weren't." Prohibition was a constitutional amendment banning the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors in the United States.
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75th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation
2 hours, 50 minutesForeign dignitaries and Holocaust survivors gathered to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp run by Nazis during World War II. The ceremony concluded with a candle vigil held in memory of those killed at the concentration camp.