C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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Public Affairs Events
7 hours, 1 minutePublic affairs events, congressional hearings, speeches, and interviews.
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African American Women's Activism & Suffrage
59 minutesMartha Jones, author of "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality For All" talked about the various ways African American women became involved in the women's suffrage movement and other political movements in the first half of the twentieth century. She focused on how they advocated for their communities in the face of voting restrictions by white state governments.
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Virtual Mayflower Project
35 minutesDirector Robert Stone talked about the Virtual Mayflower Project which uses virtual reality to recreate the ship that travelled from Plymouth, England to America in 1620 and the harbor from which it set sail. Using avatars and 360-degree images of the virtual world, professor Stone described what life might have been like for the Pilgrims and crew in the 17th-century English port, and narrated the walk a Pilgrim might have taken through the streets before boarding the ship.
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American Artifacts: Pilgrim Story & Mayflower II Tour
40 minutesPlimoth Patuxet deputy executive director Richard Pickering told the story of the Pilgrims' Atlantic crossing in 1620 from Plymouth, England to Plymouth, Massachusetts and the origins of the Mayflower Compact. On Mayflower II, a reproduction of the original ship, Mr. Pickering and Plimoth Patuxet's maritime preservation director Whit Perry described the living conditions on the Mayflower for the Pilgrims and crew.
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Wampanoag People
50 minutesDarius Coombs, Wampanoag & Eastern Woodlands director at Plimoth Patuxet discussed the culture of the Wampanoag people who lived in the Plymouth area prior to the arrival of the Pilgrims. He explained how they adapted to the presence of the English and how the remaining members, including him, live today. The Nantucket Historical Association hosted this event and provided this video.
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Reel America: "The Voyage of the Mayflower II" - 1957
10 minutesThis Castle Films newsreel documents the 1957 Atlantic crossing of the Mayflower II, a replica of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.
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Reel America: "The Pilgrims" - 1955
22 minutesThis classroom film dramatizes the Pilgrim's flight from religious persecution in England to the Netherlands, then twelve years later their ocean voyage on the Mayflower, and the founding of Plymouth Colony in 1620. The Encyclopaedia Britannica film was produced in Merton Park Studios in London, England.
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Reel America: "Plymouth Colony - The First Year" - 1980
16 minutesThis Coronet educational film dramatizes the Pilgrims' journey from England to Holland, and to New England in 1620, and ends with a depiction of the first Thanksgiving in Massachusetts. Much of the narration is taken from the book "Of Plymouth Plantation" written by Pilgrim William Bradford.
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Reel America: "Early Settlers of New England, Salem, 1626-1629" - 1940
10 minutesThis 1940 classroom film depicts the basics of colonial life, from household cooking and crafts, to farming, fishing, game hunting, and home construction methods.
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Reel America: "The Beginning at Plymouth Colony" - 1954
16 minutesThis Cold War classroom lecture film argues that the Pilgrims' early collectivist economic system failed, leading to a more successful capitalist system based on individual responsibility and private ownership. This is one of a series of lectures by historian Clifton Ganus, Jr. on the American system produced in the mid-1950s by the National Education Program at Harding College in Searcy, Arkansas.
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Former Senator Sam Nunn D-Georgia - the Cold War at 75
1 hour, 6 minutesThe Georgia Historical Society's senior historian Stan Deaton interviewed former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn about the Cold War 75 years after it began. Senator Nunn served from 1972 to 1997 as a Democrat from Georgia, and as Senate Armed Services Committee chair from 1987 to 1995. In 2001, he co-founded the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Senator Nunn reflected on his experience during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the leadership of presidents from Harry Truman to George H.W. Bush, foreign leaders who influenced events during the Cold War years, as well as the continuing threat of nuclear war.
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Former Secretary of State James Baker on Leadership & His Career
50 minutesFormer Secretary of State James Baker talks about leadership and his career with attorney and historian Talmage Boston. Mr. Baker served as secretary of state for President George H.W. Bush, and as Ronald Reagan's White House chief of staff and Treasury secretary. Baylor University Law School hosted the conversation and provided the video.
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Global History of the 19th Amendment
1 hour, 4 minutesHistorian Mona Siegel talked about her book, "Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women's Rights After the First World War." The Sacramento State history professor argued that a great diversity of women from around the world pushed for greater rights in the wake of the horrors of the Great War. Professor Siegel also argues that some of these women who were attending the 1919-1920 Paris Peace Conference helped push President Woodrow Wilson to support the 19th amendment. The National World War I Museum & Memorial hosted this event and provided the video.
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History Bookshelf: Nathaniel Philbrick, "Mayflower"
57 minutesNathaniel Philbrick talked about his book Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, published by Viking. He read from his book and talked about the history of Plymouth Colony, founded in the west of present-day Massachusetts in 1620. Mr. Philbrick detailed the complex relationship between the English settlers and the Wampanaog Indians, describing the first Thanksgiving celebration and the early years in New England as peaceful. He explained that over 50 years after the Pilgrims settled, the Indians waged war against them beginning with the burning of Springfield and King Philip's War. After his presentation he responded to audience members' questions.
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Reel America: "Discover America" - 1967
46 minutesThis United Airlines film narrated by actor Burgess Meredith takes a bird's eye journey across the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. "Discover America" was also the name of a public-private Johnson administration initiative which encouraged Americans to explore their country and foreigners to travel to the United States.
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Reel America: "Wonderful World" - 1959
44 minutesThis film funded by Coca-Cola takes a journey around the world celebrating cultures and tourist sites on six continents while also suggesting that people everywhere drink coke. This film from the Prelinger Archives was produced by Detroit's Jam Handy Organization, which made thousands of industrial and educational films from the 1930s through the 1970s.
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Reel America: "Welcome Home" - 1945
20 minutesAnticipating the return home of millions of service men and women after World War II, this film surveys the challenges they faced during years of war, their creative methods of coping, the new skills they acquired, and their hopes and dreams for future peacetime jobs.
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First Lady Florence Harding
54 minutesCarl Sferrazza Anthony, author of "Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President" discussed the life of President Warren G. Harding's wife, and dispelled some of the myths surrounding her time in the White House. The White House Historical Association hosted this event and provided the video.
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Slavery & the Constitution
1 hour, 0 minuteIn a discussion hosted by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, a law professor and two actors who portray free and enslaved blacks at Williamsburg discussed the role compromises over slavery played in drafting of the U.S. Constitution and the enduring legacy of those compromises. This program includes two performances by Colonial Williamsburg actors portraying African Americans in the 1780s. Colonial Williamsburg provided the video of this event.
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American Artifacts: History of Women in Congress Part 1
28 minutesHouse of Representatives historian Matthew Wasniewski and Curator Farar Elliott presented artifacts and photographs related to and talked about the history of women in the U.S. House of Representatives, beginning with the election of Jeannette Rankin in 1917 and ending with the story of Margaret Chase Smith.
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American Artifacts: History of Women in Congress Part 2
32 minutesHouse of Representatives historian Matthew Wasniewski and Curator Farar Elliott presented artifacts and photographs related to and talked about the history of women in the U.S. House of Representatives, from Clare Boothe Luce to Shirley Chisholm, and Lindy Boggs.
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Virtual Mayflower Project
35 minutesDirector Robert Stone talked about the Virtual Mayflower Project which uses virtual reality to recreate the ship that travelled from Plymouth, England to America in 1620 and the harbor from which it set sail. Using avatars and 360-degree images of the virtual world, professor Stone described what life might have been like for the Pilgrims and crew in the 17th-century English port, and narrated the walk a Pilgrim might have taken through the streets before boarding the ship.
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American Artifacts: Pilgrim Story & Mayflower II Tour
40 minutesPlimoth Patuxet deputy executive director Richard Pickering told the story of the Pilgrims' Atlantic crossing in 1620 from Plymouth, England to Plymouth, Massachusetts and the origins of the Mayflower Compact. On Mayflower II, a reproduction of the original ship, Mr. Pickering and Plimoth Patuxet's maritime preservation director Whit Perry described the living conditions on the Mayflower for the Pilgrims and crew.
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Wampanoag People
50 minutesDarius Coombs, Wampanoag & Eastern Woodlands director at Plimoth Patuxet discussed the culture of the Wampanoag people who lived in the Plymouth area prior to the arrival of the Pilgrims. He explained how they adapted to the presence of the English and how the remaining members, including him, live today. The Nantucket Historical Association hosted this event and provided this video.
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Reel America: "The Voyage of the Mayflower II" - 1957
10 minutesThis Castle Films newsreel documents the 1957 Atlantic crossing of the Mayflower II, a replica of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.
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Reel America: "The Pilgrims" - 1955
21 minutesThis classroom film dramatizes the Pilgrim's flight from religious persecution in England to the Netherlands, then twelve years later their ocean voyage on the Mayflower, and the founding of Plymouth Colony in 1620. The Encyclopaedia Britannica film was produced in Merton Park Studios in London, England.
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Reel America: "Plymouth Colony - The First Year" - 1980
16 minutesThis Coronet educational film dramatizes the Pilgrims' journey from England to Holland, and to New England in 1620, and ends with a depiction of the first Thanksgiving in Massachusetts. Much of the narration is taken from the book "Of Plymouth Plantation" written by Pilgrim William Bradford.
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Reel America: "Early Settlers of New England, Salem, 1626-1629" - 1940
11 minutesThis 1940 classroom film depicts the basics of colonial life, from household cooking and crafts, to farming, fishing, game hunting, and home construction methods.
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Reel America: "The Beginning at Plymouth Colony" - 1954
17 minutesThis Cold War classroom lecture film argues that the Pilgrims' early collectivist economic system failed, leading to a more successful capitalist system based on individual responsibility and private ownership. This is one of a series of lectures by historian Clifton Ganus, Jr. on the American system produced in the mid-1950s by the National Education Program at Harding College in Searcy, Arkansas.
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Former Senator Sam Nunn D-Georgia - the Cold War at 75
1 hour, 5 minutesThe Georgia Historical Society's senior historian Stan Deaton interviewed former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn about the Cold War 75 years after it began. Senator Nunn served from 1972 to 1997 as a Democrat from Georgia, and as Senate Armed Services Committee chair from 1987 to 1995. In 2001, he co-founded the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Senator Nunn reflected on his experience during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the leadership of presidents from Harry Truman to George H.W. Bush, foreign leaders who influenced events during the Cold War years, as well as the continuing threat of nuclear war.
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Former Secretary of State James Baker on Leadership & His Career
50 minutesFormer Secretary of State James Baker talks about leadership and his career with attorney and historian Talmage Boston. Mr. Baker served as secretary of state for President George H.W. Bush, and as Ronald Reagan's White House chief of staff and Treasury secretary. Baylor University Law School hosted the conversation and provided the video.
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Global History of the 19th Amendment
1 hour, 3 minutesHistorian Mona Siegel talked about her book, "Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women's Rights After the First World War." The Sacramento State history professor argued that a great diversity of women from around the world pushed for greater rights in the wake of the horrors of the Great War. Professor Siegel also argues that some of these women who were attending the 1919-1920 Paris Peace Conference helped push President Woodrow Wilson to support the 19th amendment. The National World War I Museum & Memorial hosted this event and provided the video.
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History Bookshelf: Nathaniel Philbrick, "Mayflower"
57 minutesNathaniel Philbrick talked about his book Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, published by Viking. He read from his book and talked about the history of Plymouth Colony, founded in the west of present-day Massachusetts in 1620. Mr. Philbrick detailed the complex relationship between the English settlers and the Wampanaog Indians, describing the first Thanksgiving celebration and the early years in New England as peaceful. He explained that over 50 years after the Pilgrims settled, the Indians waged war against them beginning with the burning of Springfield and King Philip's War. After his presentation he responded to audience members' questions.
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Reel America: "Discover America" - 1967
46 minutesThis United Airlines film narrated by actor Burgess Meredith takes a bird's eye journey across the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. "Discover America" was also the name of a public-private Johnson administration initiative which encouraged Americans to explore their country and foreigners to travel to the United States.
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Reel America: "Wonderful World" - 1959
44 minutesThis film funded by Coca-Cola takes a journey around the world celebrating cultures and tourist sites on six continents while also suggesting that people everywhere drink coke. This film from the Prelinger Archives was produced by Detroit's Jam Handy Organization, which made thousands of industrial and educational films from the 1930s through the 1970s.
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Reel America: "Welcome Home" - 1945
20 minutesAnticipating the return home of millions of service men and women after World War II, this film surveys the challenges they faced during years of war, their creative methods of coping, the new skills they acquired, and their hopes and dreams for future peacetime jobs.
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First Lady Florence Harding
45 minutesCarl Sferrazza Anthony, author of "Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President" discussed the life of President Warren G. Harding's wife, and dispelled some of the myths surrounding her time in the White House. The White House Historical Association hosted this event and provided the video.
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Settlement of San Antonio
10 minutesHistorian Lewis Fisher talked about the arrival of Spanish explorers and the settlement of San Antonio including how their cultural influences are still observed today.
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Slavery & the Constitution
1 hour, 0 minuteIn a discussion hosted by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, a law professor and two actors who portray free and enslaved blacks at Williamsburg discussed the role compromises over slavery played in drafting of the U.S. Constitution and the enduring legacy of those compromises. This program includes two performances by Colonial Williamsburg actors portraying African Americans in the 1780s. Colonial Williamsburg provided the video of this event.