C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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Lectures in History: Asian Immigration and Angel Island
1 hour, 30 minutesUniversity of Minnesota professor Erika Lee talks about Asian immigration to the West coast from 1830 to 1930, including the role of San Francisco Bay's Angel Island in the 20th century. She compared the Angel Island and Ellis Island experiences, describing how Asian immigrants in California had more extensive background checks and longer holding times than European immigrants in New York. This class was from a course called "American Immigration History."
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American Artifacts: Fort Monroe Casemate Museum
18 minutesFort Monroe Casemate Museum director Robin Reed gave us a tour showcasing the coastal Virginia fort's history from the colonial era through its completion in 1834, and its role in the Civil War.
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Indigenous People of the Great Plains
12 minutesBill Mercer, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, guided us through the Native Lifeways of the Plains exhibition which showcases items from the indigenous people of the Great Plains.
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History Bookshelf: Miriam Pawel, "The Crusades of Cesar Chavez"
50 minutesMiriam Pawel talked about her book, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography, in which she chronicles the life and activism of United Farm Workers co-founder and president Cesar Chavez. This event took place at the second annual San Antonio Book Festival, held on April 5, 2014, and was filmed in the auditorium of the San Antonio Central Library.
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Nixon Administration Foreign Policy
1 hour, 20 minutesWinston Lord talked about the Nixon Administration's foreign policy approach. He is the author of "Kissinger on Kissinger: Reflections on Diplomacy, Grand Strategy, and Leadership." Mr. Lord described President Nixon's relationship with his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, and how it was instrumental in developing foreign policy strategies. The Richard Nixon Foundation hosted this event.
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The Civil War: 1865 Black Diamond Naval Disaster
50 minutesIn late-April 1865, with the Civil War drawing to a close, the barge Black Diamond sank following a nighttime collision on the lower Potomac River with a steamer loaded with Union troops. The accident resulted in the deaths of 87 men. Karen Stone, manager of the St. Mary's County, Maryland Museums Division, detailed the events of that night and why this naval disaster is often overshadowed by other events at the time, such as the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the hunt for his killer John Wilkes Booth. The National Museum of Civil War Medicine hosted this conversation and provided the video.
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Remembering George Washington
1 hour, 5 minutesMatthew Costello talked about his new book "The Property of the Nation: George Washington's Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President." He discussed the ways that Americans remembered and celebrated George Washington in the 19th century. And he talked about how the freed and enslaved people on Washington's Mount Vernon estate helped shape the historical narrative about the first president. Mr. Costello is a historian at the White House Historical Association, which hosted this event.
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Lectures in History: Constitutional Convention of 1787
54 minutesProfessor Jack Rakove talked about some of the issues debated during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, such as the number of representatives for each state and the method of presidential elections. He described the arguments put forth by James Madison and how delegates tried to reach compromises despite competing state interests. This class was from a course called "The Constitution: A Brief History."
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Hispanic Americans in Congress
1 hour, 1 minuteHouse historian Matthew Wasniewski disussed Hispanic Americans who have served in Congress. He explains that prior to the mid-twentieth century, many served as territorial delegates and comissioners as opposed to voting representatives
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Debating & Removing Monuments
59 minutesHistorians David Blight & Annette Gordon-Reed talked about recent debates over historical monuments, discussing how people could make decisions about removing or contextualizing them based on historical information and public sentiment.The American Historical Association hosted and recorded this event.
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Soviet Spy Klaus Fuchs
1 hour, 1 minuteNancy Thorndike Greenspan talked about her book, "Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs," which looks at the life of the spy who gave the Soviets America's plans for a plutonium bomb. The Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York hosted this event and provided the video.
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Reel America: "Zip Code with the Swingin' Six" - 1967
15 minutesThe 1960s folk band "The Swingin' Six" stars in a U.S. Postal Service public service announcement explaining the zip code system, which was first introduced in 1963. ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan.
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Reel America: "Men and Mail in Transit" - 1956
27 minutesThis is a U.S. Postal Service training film for the highly demanding job of Railway Mail Service postal clerk. Between the 1890s and 1960s, trains were the primary method for moving mail in the United States and thousands of specially designed postal cars were in use when this film was made. The service was discontinued in 1977.
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Reel America: "The Mailman" - 1946
11 minutesThis Encyclopaedia Britannica educational film shows how the U.S. Postal Service works by documenting a typical working day in the life of a mailman.
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Reel America: "Improving Mail Processing Through R & D" - 1970
27 minutesThis U.S. Postal Service film documents research and development and lab tests related to mail processing, featuring technology designed to automate the movement of letters and packages and reduce the amount of heavy lifting done by postal workers.
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National Museum of American History Coronavirus Artifacts
20 minutesAlexandra Lord, Medicine & Science director and curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, talked about the museum's coronavirus pandemic artifacts collection.
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Reel America: News Magazine of the Screen "Summer Review 1955"
20 minutesThis newsreel contains the following stories: Geneva Summit of 1955; continued civil war in Saigon; Allied occupation ends in West Germany; Big Four nations end occupation in Austria; national air raid drill "Operation Alert"; "Survival Town" atomic test; final run of the 3rd ave elevated rail in NY; and a story on the USS Constitution - Old Ironsides.
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American Artifacts: National Museum of the American Indian Photo Collections
41 minutesThe National Museum of the American Indian's Michelle Anne Delaney traced photography's evolution while describing a selection of the museum's images of Native Americans. She also demonstrated how to navigate their online collection of 25,000 photographs. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this program was recorded via Zoom.
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National Museum of American History Coronavirus Artifacts
19 minutesAlexandra Lord, Medicine & Science director and curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, talked about the museum's coronavirus pandemic artifacts collection.
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Texas Rangers - Behind the Myths
1 hour, 0 minuteDoug Swanson, author of "Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers," talked about the history behind the myths of the storied law enforcement organization. He argued that while the Rangers emerged out of a wild and violent Texas, it is time to confront atrocities they committed against Native Americans, African Americans and Mexicans. The Texas Rangers mark their 200th anniversary in 2023. The Falmouth, Massachusetts Museums on the Green hosted this event and provided the video.
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Presidential Retreats
47 minutesThis program looked at presidential retreats, with a focus on Abraham Lincoln's summer cottage, Herbert Hoover's Shenandoah mountains fishing camp, and stories about the Kennedys, Clintons and Obamas in Martha's Vineyard. The White House Historical Association provided this video.
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Lou Hoover's 1921 Cross Country Road Trip
23 minutesArchivist Craig Wright talked about a fall 1921 road trip that future first lady Lou Hoover took with her newly widowed father -- traveling from California to Washington, D.C., long before there was an interstate highway system. Her father documented the September 12 to October 16 trip down to how much they spent on gas. His four page summary is in the collection of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, and is quoted during this talk. The Hoover Presidential Foundation provided this video.
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The Civil War: Civil War Soldiers' Nutrition and Hygiene
50 minutesThe National Museum of Civil War Medicine hosted an online discussion with John Heckman, known as "The Tattooed Historian," about Civil War soldiers' nutrition and hygiene. He described what type of food would have been in their rations, how they might have cooked it, and their access to items like toothpaste and toilet paper. The National Museum of Civil War Medicine provided this video.
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American Artifacts: National Museum of the American Indian Photo Collections
41 minutesThe National Museum of the American Indian's Michelle Anne Delaney traced photography's evolution while describing a selection of the museum's images of Native Americans. She also demonstrated how to navigate their online collection of 25,000 photographs. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this program was recorded via Zoom.
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National Museum of American History Coronavirus Artifacts
19 minutesAlexandra Lord, Medicine & Science director and curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, talked about the museum's coronavirus pandemic artifacts collection.
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Texas Rangers - Behind the Myths
1 hour, 0 minuteDoug Swanson, author of "Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers," talked about the history behind the myths of the storied law enforcement organization. He argued that while the Rangers emerged out of a wild and violent Texas, it is time to confront atrocities they committed against Native Americans, African Americans and Mexicans. The Texas Rangers mark their 200th anniversary in 2023. The Falmouth, Massachusetts Museums on the Green hosted this event and provided the video.
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Presidential Retreats
48 minutesThis program looked at presidential retreats, with a focus on Abraham Lincoln's summer cottage, Herbert Hoover's Shenandoah mountains fishing camp, and stories about the Kennedys, Clintons and Obamas in Martha's Vineyard. The White House Historical Association provided this video.
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Lou Hoover's 1921 Cross Country Road Trip
22 minutesArchivist Craig Wright talked about a fall 1921 road trip that future first lady Lou Hoover took with her newly widowed father -- traveling from California to Washington, D.C., long before there was an interstate highway system. Her father documented the September 12 to October 16 trip down to how much they spent on gas. His four page summary is in the collection of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, and is quoted during this talk. The Hoover Presidential Foundation provided this video.
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The Civil War: Civil War Soldiers' Nutrition and Hygiene
50 minutesThe National Museum of Civil War Medicine hosted an online discussion with John Heckman, known as "The Tattooed Historian," about Civil War soldiers' nutrition and hygiene. He described what type of food would have been in their rations, how they might have cooked it, and their access to items like toothpaste and toilet paper. The National Museum of Civil War Medicine provided this video.
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Reel America: "Zip Code with the Swingin' Six" - 1967
15 minutesThe 1960s folk band "The Swingin' Six" stars in a U.S. Postal Service public service announcement explaining the zip code system, which was first introduced in 1963. ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan.
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Reel America: "Men and Mail in Transit" - 1956
28 minutesThis is a U.S. Postal Service training film for the highly demanding job of Railway Mail Service postal clerk. Between the 1890s and 1960s, trains were the primary method for moving mail in the United States and thousands of specially designed postal cars were in use when this film was made. The service was discontinued in 1977.
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Reel America: "The Mailman" - 1946
10 minutesThis Encyclopaedia Britannica educational film shows how the U.S. Postal Service works by documenting a typical working day in the life of a mailman.
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Reel America: "Improving Mail Processing Through R & D" - 1970
21 minutesThis U.S. Postal Service film documents research and development and lab tests related to mail processing, featuring technology designed to automate the movement of letters and packages and reduce the amount of heavy lifting done by postal workers.
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Barbara Bush Scrapbooks
6 minutesFormer first lady Barbara Bush kept scrapbooks of every year of the Bush's life together. Warren Finch, Director of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum showed items from one of 118 scrapbooks held in the library, including a memento from the couple's first Thanksgiving together.
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National Museum of American History Coronavirus Artifacts
20 minutesAlexandra Lord, Medicine & Science director and curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, talked about the museum's coronavirus pandemic artifacts collection.
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Reel America: News Magazine of the Screen "Summer Review 1955"
20 minutesThis newsreel contains the following stories: Geneva Summit of 1955; continued civil war in Saigon; Allied occupation ends in West Germany; Big Four nations end occupation in Austria; national air raid drill "Operation Alert"; "Survival Town" atomic test; final run of the 3rd ave elevated rail in NY; and a story on the USS Constitution - Old Ironsides.
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American Artifacts: National Museum of the American Indian Photo Collections
41 minutesThe National Museum of the American Indian's Michelle Anne Delaney traced photography's evolution while describing a selection of the museum's images of Native Americans. She also demonstrated how to navigate their online collection of 25,000 photographs. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this program was recorded via Zoom.
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National Museum of American History Coronavirus Artifacts
19 minutesAlexandra Lord, Medicine & Science director and curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, talked about the museum's coronavirus pandemic artifacts collection.
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Texas Rangers - Behind the Myths
1 hour, 0 minuteDoug Swanson, author of "Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers," talked about the history behind the myths of the storied law enforcement organization. He argued that while the Rangers emerged out of a wild and violent Texas, it is time to confront atrocities they committed against Native Americans, African Americans and Mexicans. The Texas Rangers mark their 200th anniversary in 2023. The Falmouth, Massachusetts Museums on the Green hosted this event and provided the video.
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Presidential Retreats
48 minutesThis program looked at presidential retreats, with a focus on Abraham Lincoln's summer cottage, Herbert Hoover's Shenandoah mountains fishing camp, and stories about the Kennedys, Clintons and Obamas in Martha's Vineyard. The White House Historical Association provided this video.
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Lou Hoover's 1921 Cross Country Road Trip
19 minutesArchivist Craig Wright talked about a fall 1921 road trip that future first lady Lou Hoover took with her newly widowed father -- traveling from California to Washington, D.C., long before there was an interstate highway system. Her father documented the September 12 to October 16 trip down to how much they spent on gas. His four page summary is in the collection of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, and is quoted during this talk. The Hoover Presidential Foundation provided this video.