C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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American Artifacts: Mobile, Alabama African American Heritage Trail - Part 2
57 minutesAmerican History TV joined tour guide Eric Finley to learn about the history of Mobile, Alabama from the Jim Crow era through the civil rights movement. The tour features stories of churches, businesses, leaders and entrepreneurs who thrived despite segregation and racial tensions. This is the second of a two-part tour.
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Reel America: "The American Revolution of '63 Part 1" - NBC News Report
1 hour, 13 minutesOn September 2, 1963, NBC News broadcast a three-hour program on the status of the civil rights movement. Reporting from 75 locations throughout the United States, the broadcast is organized into three parts, with each attempting to answer a question: 1) How did the civil rights revolution begin? 2) What course is it following? 3) What are the effects of the revolution? This 70 minutes is the first part of the report and covers slavery and Jim Crow laws, protests and violent responses in Georgia, Alabama, and Maryland as well as in northern cities such as Chicago, New York and Englewood, New Jersey.
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Reel America: "The American Revolution of '63 Part 2" - NBC News Report
49 minutesOn September 2, 1963, NBC News broadcast a three-hour program on the status of the civil rights movement. Reporting from 75 locations throughout the United States, it includes appearances by well-known activists, scenes from historic civil rights events, and comments from integration opponents. This 50-minute portion of the report covers the sit-in movement, the assassination of Medgar Evers, the Little Rock, Arkansas school integration crisis, and other events.
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Reel America: "The American Revolution of '63 Part 3" - NBC News Report
47 minutesLess than one week after the August 28, 1963 March on Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, NBC News broadcast a three-hour program on the status of the civil rights movement. This concluding 45-minute segment of the sweeping report examines the question: what are the effects of the civil rights revolution? This broadcast uses NBC archival footage to cover early 1960s conflicts including school integration struggles in New Orleans, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Georgia, and concludes with a look at the March on Washington and arguments for and against President Kennedy's proposed civil rights bill.
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American Artifacts: History of African Americans in Congress - 19th Century
30 minutesHouse of Representatives historian Matthew Wasniewski & House curator Farar Elliott use a selection of artifacts to tell the story of the first 22 black members of Congress who served between 1869 and 1901.
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American Artifacts: History of African Americans in Congress - 20th Century
45 minutesU.S. House of Representatives Historian Matthew Wasnieski and House Curator Farar Elliott use a selection of artifacts from their collections to tell the story of black members of congress between the 1920s and the 1970s. This program draws upon the House History publication "Black Americans in Congress."
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American Artifacts: Mobile, Alabama African American Heritage Trail - Part 1
50 minutesAmerican History TV joined tour guide Eric Finley to learn about the early history of Mobile, Alabama, and to visit Africatown, a National Historic Landmark neighborhood north of the city founded by former slaves who were captives on the ship Clotilda. Recently discovered under the mud of the Mobile River, the Clotilda smuggled approximately 110 kidnapped West Africans to Mobile in 1860. This is part one of a two-part tour.
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American Artifacts: Mobile, Alabama African American Heritage Trail - Part 2
57 minutesAmerican History TV joined tour guide Eric Finley to learn about the history of Mobile, Alabama from the Jim Crow era through the civil rights movement. The tour features stories of churches, businesses, leaders and entrepreneurs who thrived despite segregation and racial tensions. This is the second of a two-part tour.
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Reel America: "The American Revolution of '63 Part 1" - NBC News Report
1 hour, 13 minutesOn September 2, 1963, NBC News broadcast a three-hour program on the status of the civil rights movement. Reporting from 75 locations throughout the United States, the broadcast is organized into three parts, with each attempting to answer a question: 1) How did the civil rights revolution begin? 2) What course is it following? 3) What are the effects of the revolution? This 70 minutes is the first part of the report and covers slavery and Jim Crow laws, protests and violent responses in Georgia, Alabama, and Maryland as well as in northern cities such as Chicago, New York and Englewood, New Jersey.
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Reel America: "The American Revolution of '63 Part 2" - NBC News Report
49 minutesOn September 2, 1963, NBC News broadcast a three-hour program on the status of the civil rights movement. Reporting from 75 locations throughout the United States, it includes appearances by well-known activists, scenes from historic civil rights events, and comments from integration opponents. This 50-minute portion of the report covers the sit-in movement, the assassination of Medgar Evers, the Little Rock, Arkansas school integration crisis, and other events.
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Reel America: "The American Revolution of '63 Part 3" - NBC News Report
47 minutesLess than one week after the August 28, 1963 March on Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, NBC News broadcast a three-hour program on the status of the civil rights movement. This concluding 45-minute segment of the sweeping report examines the question: what are the effects of the civil rights revolution? This broadcast uses NBC archival footage to cover early 1960s conflicts including school integration struggles in New Orleans, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Georgia, and concludes with a look at the March on Washington and arguments for and against President Kennedy's proposed civil rights bill.
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American Artifacts: History of African Americans in Congress - 19th Century
30 minutesHouse of Representatives historian Matthew Wasniewski & House curator Farar Elliott use a selection of artifacts to tell the story of the first 22 black members of Congress who served between 1869 and 1901.
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American Artifacts: History of African Americans in Congress - 20th Century
46 minutesU.S. House of Representatives Historian Matthew Wasnieski and House Curator Farar Elliott use a selection of artifacts from their collections to tell the story of black members of congress between the 1920s and the 1970s. This program draws upon the House History publication "Black Americans in Congress."
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American Artifacts: Mobile, Alabama African American Heritage Trail - Part 1
49 minutesAmerican History TV joined tour guide Eric Finley to learn about the early history of Mobile, Alabama, and to visit Africatown, a National Historic Landmark neighborhood north of the city founded by former slaves who were captives on the ship Clotilda. Recently discovered under the mud of the Mobile River, the Clotilda smuggled approximately 110 kidnapped West Africans to Mobile in 1860. This is part one of a two-part tour.
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American Artifacts: Mobile, Alabama African American Heritage Trail - Part 2
57 minutesAmerican History TV joined tour guide Eric Finley to learn about the history of Mobile, Alabama from the Jim Crow era through the civil rights movement. The tour features stories of churches, businesses, leaders and entrepreneurs who thrived despite segregation and racial tensions. This is the second of a two-part tour.
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Geraldine Ferraro Vice Presidential Nominee Acceptance Speech 1984
35 minutesOn "Road to the White House Rewind," New York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro accepts the vice presidential nomination at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. Walter Mondale selected her as his running mate, and she became the first woman nominated by a major party for the presidency or vice presidency. The Mondale-Ferraro ticket lost the general election to Republican incumbents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, with Reagan & Bush winning 49 states and receiving 59 percent of the vote to Mondale and Ferraro's 41 percent.
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U.S. Domestic Politics & Treaty of Versailles
1 hour, 11 minutesWilliam Jewell College professor Gary Armstrong discussed the U.S. Senate's rejection of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles to end World War I, which President Woodrow Wilson had spent seven months overseas negotiating. Professor Armstrong argued Wilson had hoped the treaty would vault the U.S. into a leading position in the global order, but that U.S. domestic political divisions -- combined with turmoil created by a flu pandemic, a "Red Scare," racial unrest and Wilson suffering a stroke - all contributed to his failure to achieve Senate ratification. The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri hosted this event and provided the video.
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Women's Roles in World War I
57 minutesAuthor Lynn Dumenil talked about her book "The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I." She examined the different roles women played during the conflict, including their participation in the workforce and their use in media and propaganda. The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri hosted this event and provided the video.
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African American Soldiers & Post-World War I Activism
57 minutesChad Williams is the author of "Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era." He talked about the postwar activism of these soldiers, explaining how after fighting for the idea of "democracy" abroad, many returned to join movements aimed at securing more rights and better social standing for African Americans here at home. The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri taped this event in November 2019.
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1919 Paris Peace Conference
1 hour, 26 minutesHistorian Margaret MacMillan, author of "Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World", examined the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, which sought to hammer out a peace treaty for World War I. She discussed the difficulties in reaching an agreement that satisfied all participating nations in regards to territorial claims and adequately punishing Germany for its wartime actions. The National World War I Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri taped this talk as part of their annual symposium last November.
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Origins of Woodrow Wilson's Foreign Policy
55 minutesHarvard professor Erez Manela talked about how Woodrow Wilson's American upbringing and education shaped his outlook on foreign policy as president, particularly his vision for the League of Nations in the aftermath of World War I. Mr. Manela discussed how Wilson championed self-determination and reform as "bulwarks" against both concentrated power and disorder. This video is courtesy of the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.
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U.S. Domestic Politics & Treaty of Versailles
1 hour, 11 minutesWilliam Jewell College professor Gary Armstrong discussed the U.S. Senate's rejection of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles to end World War I, which President Woodrow Wilson had spent seven months overseas negotiating. Professor Armstrong argued Wilson had hoped the treaty would vault the U.S. into a leading position in the global order, but that U.S. domestic political divisions -- combined with turmoil created by a flu pandemic, a "Red Scare," racial unrest and Wilson suffering a stroke - all contributed to his failure to achieve Senate ratification. The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri hosted this event and provided the video.
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Women's Roles in World War I
58 minutesAuthor Lynn Dumenil talked about her book "The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I." She examined the different roles women played during the conflict, including their participation in the workforce and their use in media and propaganda. The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri hosted this event and provided the video.
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African American Soldiers & Post-World War I Activism
55 minutesChad Williams is the author of "Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era." He talked about the postwar activism of these soldiers, explaining how after fighting for the idea of "democracy" abroad, many returned to join movements aimed at securing more rights and better social standing for African Americans here at home. The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri taped this event in November 2019.
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1919 Paris Peace Conference
1 hour, 27 minutesHistorian Margaret MacMillan, author of "Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World", examined the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, which sought to hammer out a peace treaty for World War I. She discussed the difficulties in reaching an agreement that satisfied all participating nations in regards to territorial claims and adequately punishing Germany for its wartime actions. The National World War I Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri taped this talk as part of their annual symposium last November.
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Origins of Woodrow Wilson's Foreign Policy
54 minutesHarvard professor Erez Manela talked about how Woodrow Wilson's American upbringing and education shaped his outlook on foreign policy as president, particularly his vision for the League of Nations in the aftermath of World War I. Mr. Manela discussed how Wilson championed self-determination and reform as "bulwarks" against both concentrated power and disorder. This video is courtesy of the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.
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U.S. Domestic Politics & Treaty of Versailles
1 hour, 10 minutesWilliam Jewell College professor Gary Armstrong discussed the U.S. Senate's rejection of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles to end World War I, which President Woodrow Wilson had spent seven months overseas negotiating. Professor Armstrong argued Wilson had hoped the treaty would vault the U.S. into a leading position in the global order, but that U.S. domestic political divisions -- combined with turmoil created by a flu pandemic, a "Red Scare," racial unrest and Wilson suffering a stroke - all contributed to his failure to achieve Senate ratification. The National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri hosted this event and provided the video.