C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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Reel America: "In the Suburbs" - 1957
20 minutesThis Redbook Magazine film shows how young adults with children are a booming demographic and argues that the magazine can help them navigate a new way of life. It uses photographs, magazine text, and color and black and white film to show families engaged in leisure activities at home and at the new hub of suburban activity - the shopping center.
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Reel America: "American Look" - 1958
30 minutesThis vivid color film highlights the work of interior, industrial, product, and auto designers who create stylish new looks for mass-produced consumer goods. The narrator states that "the greatest freedom of the American people is the freedom of individual choice," and the film celebrates American abundance. It ends by showing designers at work on the 1959 Chevrolet Impala at General Motors' colorful Technical Center in Warren, Michigan.
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Former Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee
15 minutesHoward Lee, was the first African-American elected mayor in a majority-white southern city. Mr. Lee talked about serving as Chapel Hill's mayor from 1969 to 1975, and explained the challenges he faced during the election and while in office.
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Reel America: "Crisis in Levittown, PA" - 1957
31 minutesThis film explores the attitudes of homeowners after an African American family moves into the all-white suburban development of 60,000. Located about 25 miles from Philadelphia, Levittown was the second of seven post-World War II developments geared towards veterans. Levittown management prohibited the sale of homes directly to African Americans, although it allowed private owners to do so.
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Reel America: "All the Way Home" - 1957
30 minutesThis film dramatizes the prejudice and rumors that arise in a fictional white suburb when a black family is seen visiting a home with a "For Sale" sign on the front lawn. Written by poet and political activist Muriel Rukeyser, the film was supported by over a dozen civic groups including the NAACP, National Council of Churches, Anti-Defamation League, United Auto Workers, and National Urban League.
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Reel America: "In the Suburbs" - 1957
19 minutesThis Redbook Magazine film shows how young adults with children are a booming demographic and argues that the magazine can help them navigate a new way of life. It uses photographs, magazine text, and color and black and white film to show families engaged in leisure activities at home and at the new hub of suburban activity - the shopping center.
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Reel America: "American Look" - 1958
34 minutesThis vivid color film highlights the work of interior, industrial, product, and auto designers who create stylish new looks for mass-produced consumer goods. The narrator states that "the greatest freedom of the American people is the freedom of individual choice," and the film celebrates American abundance. It ends by showing designers at work on the 1959 Chevrolet Impala at General Motors' colorful Technical Center in Warren, Michigan.
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American Artifacts: JFK Assassination Records
29 minutesMartha Murphy, head of the Special Access and Freedom of Information Act staff at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland, talked about the collection of artifacts related to the President John F. Kennedy assassination and the Warren Commission. She spoke about how records are preserved, including the so-called "magic bullet," Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle, and the Zapruder film.
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Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
57 minutesHerbert Hoover Presidential Library director Thomas Schwartz talked about how the library explores the life of the thirty-first chief executive. Mr. Schwartz explained that the facility takes a broad look at Hoover's career before, during and after his time in the White House. The National Archives Foundation hosted this event and provided the video.
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National Army Museum Opening Ceremony
34 minutesOn November 11, 2020, the National Museum of the United States Army opened its doors. Its purpose is to preserve and showcase over 245 years of U.S. Army history. Due to Coronavirus, the museum and the Army Historical Foundation held an online ceremony to commemorate the opening. The Army's Multimedia and Visual Information Directorate provided the video of the event.
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Former Secretary of State James Baker on Leadership & His Career
48 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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Route 66 in Amarillo
12 minutesWe rode along with Nick Gerlich, author of, "A Matter of Time- Route 66 Through the Lens of Change", as he talked about landmarks from the highway that still exist today.
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African American Women's Activism & Suffrage
1 hour, 4 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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Boston Red Sox & World War II
1 hour, 6 minutesBoston Red Sox historian Gordon Edes led a panel discussion on the team's home front and battlefield contributions during World War II. Through the stories of Hall of Famer Ted Williams and others, they gave insight into the athletes training, combat experience, and reception when they returned home. This event was hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, and they provided the video.
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Remembering the 1963 March on Washington
55 minutesAs part of their Cabinet Conversations series, Ford's Theatre hosted a panel discussion titled, "Remembering the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." Moderated by Jonathan White of Christopher Newport University, author George Derek Musgrove and 1963 march participant Edith Lee-Payne discussed the significance of the event and the state of the civil rights movement today.
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History Bookshelf: Adrian Miller, "The President's Kitchen Cabinet''
40 minutesAdrian Miller talked about his book "The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas," in which he recalls the many African-Americans who worked in food service at the White House. He spoke at the Roosevelt Reading Festival.
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Politics of the Founding Era & Today
1 hour, 19 minutesPanelists compare Founding Era politics to today's. They stress that while government size and voting demographics have changed, many issues that concern Americans today worried those in the republic's early years, as well. The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate hosted the event.
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The Civil War: Remembering the Civil War in the 1930s
56 minutesGettysburg College Civil War Institute hosted a online discussion with Nina Silber, author of "This War Ain't Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America." Ms. Silber talked about the ways individuals and groups remembered the war and utilized it in their own political fights during the 1930s. Gettysburg College Civil War Institute provided the video.
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American History TV Visits Hawaii
15 minutesThe C-SPAN Citiies Tour visited Hawaii to learn about the history of the state from local experts and historians.
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Thomas Jefferson's White House
49 minutesJames Conroy discussed his book, "Jefferson's White House: Monticello on the Potomac," which examines the physical state of the White House during Thomas Jefferson's presidency and how he utilized the White House as a social and political tool.
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Lectures in History: 20th-Century Roadside Attractions
31 minutesAs part of a course on the American road trip, University of Mary Washington professor Christine Henry talked about the history of roadside attractions and her own experience travelling to a freshwater pond in Ohio called the Blue Hole.
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Lincoln, Douglass & Emancipation
1 hour, 30 minutesHistorians Harold Holzer, Edna Greene Medford and David Blight talked about the views of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass on emancipating those held in slavery. They tracked their evolution on the issue from early in their careers through the Civil War. The New-York Historical Society hosts the event.
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Reel America: "Man Against Microbe" - 1932
11 minutesThis Metropolitan Life insurance Company film -- part of a health education series -- sketches 300 years of research in public health and dramatizes discoveries by notable scientists. Beginning with a 1665 plague outbreak, the film ends expressing hope that science might one day conquer polio and cancer. This film is from the National Film Preservation Foundation and Library of Congress "Online Screening Room."
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Reel America: "A Special Report on Polio" - 1955
14 minutesThis June 1955 broadcast by the radio and television networks in cooperation with the U.S. Public Health Service hoped to dispel fears about the safety of the new Salk vaccine. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby - who resigned a month later - introduces Surgeon General Leonard Scheele, who details efforts to insure the vaccine's safety. In May of 1955, the Surgeon General of the United States temporarily shut down the distribution of the Salk vaccine. In what is known as the "Cutter Incident," about 200,000 children had received a defective vaccine manufactured by Cutter Laboratories resulting in 40,000 cases of polio, 200 children with paralysis and 10 deaths. The problem led to congressional hearings, reforms, and the resignations of the National Institutes of Health director and Secretary Hobby. This film is part of the Library of Congress motion picture collections.
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Reel America: "Babies and Breadwinners - A Documentation of the 1961 Polio Vaccination Campaign"
23 minutesProduced by the Communicable Disease Center of the U.S. Public Health Service, this film documents the effort to immunize every citizen living in Columbus, Georgia. In 1961 the polio vaccine had been in existence for more than six years, but many at-risk members of this Georgia population had not yet been immunized. The community-wide effort is detailed from planning and surveys to vaccination shots.
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Reel America: " Miracle in Tonga" - 1965
16 minutesThis film tells the story of a group of CDC doctors who traveled to the island nation of Tonga to immunize the population against smallpox using a new jet injection gun. The population of approximately 70,000 had no experience with smallpox epidemics, but in the 1960s, it was feared that increased world travel and tourism put the population at risk. Produced by the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, this film comes to us courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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Reel America: "Plagues and Politics - The Story of the United States Public Health Service" - 1998
31 minutesThis film chronicles the Public Health Service from its 1798 authorization as the Marine Hospital Service to its fight against AIDS in the 1990s. The U.S. Public Health Service is headed by the Surgeon General, and falls under the authority of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, which produced this program to mark the service's bicentennial.
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American Artifacts: WWII U.S. Army Battalion Aid Station
25 minutesPhysician and living history hobbyist Jack Moody portrayed a World War II U.S. Army battalion surgeon at the annual Army Heritage Days in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Dr. Moody's medical tent was set up as a 101st Airborne battalion aid station, a mobile emergency room that would have been located close to the front lines.
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Lectures in History: 20th-Century Roadside Attractions
30 minutesAs part of a course on the American road trip, University of Mary Washington professor Christine Henry talked about the history of roadside attractions and her own experience travelling to a freshwater pond in Ohio called the Blue Hole.
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Lincoln, Douglass & Emancipation
1 hour, 30 minutesHistorians Harold Holzer, Edna Greene Medford and David Blight talked about the views of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass on emancipating those held in slavery. They tracked their evolution on the issue from early in their careers through the Civil War. The New-York Historical Society hosts the event.
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History Bookshelf: Adrian Miller, "The President's Kitchen Cabinet''
40 minutesAdrian Miller talked about his book "The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas," in which he recalls the many African-Americans who worked in food service at the White House. He spoke at the Roosevelt Reading Festival.
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Politics of the Founding Era & Today
1 hour, 20 minutesPanelists compare Founding Era politics to today's. They stress that while government size and voting demographics have changed, many issues that concern Americans today worried those in the republic's early years, as well. The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate hosted the event.
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The Civil War: Remembering the Civil War in the 1930s
57 minutesGettysburg College Civil War Institute hosted a online discussion with Nina Silber, author of "This War Ain't Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America." Ms. Silber talked about the ways individuals and groups remembered the war and utilized it in their own political fights during the 1930s. Gettysburg College Civil War Institute provided the video.
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American History TV Visits Hawaii
13 minutesThe C-SPAN Citiies Tour visited Hawaii to learn about the history of the state from local experts and historians.
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Thomas Jefferson's White House
50 minutesJames Conroy discussed his book, "Jefferson's White House: Monticello on the Potomac," which examines the physical state of the White House during Thomas Jefferson's presidency and how he utilized the White House as a social and political tool.
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Boston Red Sox & World War II
1 hour, 1 minuteBoston Red Sox historian Gordon Edes led a panel discussion on the team's home front and battlefield contributions during World War II. Through the stories of Hall of Famer Ted Williams and others, they gave insight into the athletes training, combat experience, and reception when they returned home. This event was hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society, and they provided the video.