C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
Expand All-
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.
-
Remembering the 1963 March on Washington
59 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.
-
History Bookshelf: Nathaniel Philbrick, "Mayflower"
1 hour, 0 minuteNathaniel 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.
-
William Bradford & Plymouth Colony
1 hour, 0 minuteMillersville University history professor Francis Bremer discussed William Bradford, one of the first governors of Plymouth Colony in the 1620s. He focused on how perceptions of Bradford and the Pilgrims have changed in the four hundred years since their arrival in North America. The Boston Public Library and New England Historic Genealogical Society hosted this event and provided the video.
-
The Civil War: Labor, Money & Manpower During the Civil War
1 hour, 5 minutesGettysburg College Civil War Institute hosted a online discussion with Brian Luskey, author of "Men is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America." Mr. Luskey talked about the relationship of money, the labor market and manpower needs for the Union and Confederate armies. Gettysburg College Civil War Institute provided the video.
-
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.
-
Lectures in History: James Buchanan & William Rufus King Relationship
1 hour, 5 minutesEastern Connecticut State University professor Thomas Balcerski taught a class on the relationship between two prominent mid-19th century politicians: James Buchanan, elected the nation's 15th president in 1856, and William Rufus King, who served briefly as vice president under Buchanan's predecessor, Franklin Pierce. Both men were lifelong bachelors and Professor Balcerski explored the gossip of the time that the two close confidants might have been more than friends -- an notion that persists to this day. Eastern Connecticut State University provided this video.
-
Mayflower Compact & Religious Liberty
59 minutesThe Heritage Foundation hosts a discussion about the Mayflower Compact, the document signed by the Mayflower passengers shortly before their arrival in North America 400 years ago. Scholars talk about its role as a political agreement and as an inspiration for later documents and arguments for religious liberty. The Heritage Foundation provided this video.
-
World War I & the Birth of Communism in China
1 hour, 1 minuteMilitary historian Geoff Babb discussed the influence of the United States, Europe; Japan, and Russia in early 20th century China. Babb argued that the Chinese communist movement was largely a consequence of World War I -- born in May of 1919 with student movements against several issues -- including what they saw as unfair terms and imperial bias in the Treaty of Versailles. Geoff Babb traces this history and the unintended consequences of western influence up until the 1949 founding of communist China. The National World War I Museum & Memorial hosted this event and provided the video.
-
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum
1 hour, 0 minuteRonald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum director Duke Blackwood provided a virtual tour of the library and museum that showcases the legacy of the nation's 40th president. He then took questions from viewers and National Archives Foundation executive director Patrick Madden. The National Archives Foundation hosted this event and provided the video.
-
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."
-
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.
-
Reel America: "Babies and Breadwinners - A Documentation of the 1961 Polio Vaccination Campaign"
24 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.
-
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.
-
Reel America: "Plagues and Politics - The Story of the United States Public Health Service" - 1998
30 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.
-
Lectures in History: 20th-Century Roadside Attractions
25 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.
-
American Artifacts: Tenement Museum
29 minutesKira Garcia talked about New York City's Lower East Side Tenement Museum, including an exhibit on how immigrant families coped with poverty and crowded conditions in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
-
Presidential Leadership During the Cold War
56 minutesUniversity of Virginia history professor William Hitchcock discussed presidential leadership during the Cold War era and the Cold War's lasting impact. He is the author of "The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s." The Georgia Historical Society and UVA Club of Savannah co-hosted this event.
-
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."
-
Reel America: "Plagues and Politics - The Story of the United States Public Health Service" - 1998
24 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.
-
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
59 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.
-
James Madison & George Mason Constitutional Debate
1 hour, 1 minuteThe Constitutional Convention began in 1787 in Philadelphia. Virginians James Madison and George Mason found themselves on opposing sides regarding key components of the document. In an event hosted by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, these Founding Fathers debated issues from the Bill of Rights to slavery.
-
American Artifacts: Tenement Museum
30 minutesKira Garcia talked about New York City's Lower East Side Tenement Museum, including an exhibit on how immigrant families coped with poverty and crowded conditions in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
-
Presidential Leadership During the Cold War
55 minutesUniversity of Virginia history professor William Hitchcock discussed presidential leadership during the Cold War era and the Cold War's lasting impact. He is the author of "The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s." The Georgia Historical Society and UVA Club of Savannah co-hosted this event.
-
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."
-
Reel America: "Plagues and Politics - The Story of the United States Public Health Service" - 1998
24 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.
-
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
1 hour, 0 minuteHerbert 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.
-
James Madison & George Mason Constitutional Debate
1 hour, 1 minuteThe Constitutional Convention began in 1787 in Philadelphia. Virginians James Madison and George Mason found themselves on opposing sides regarding key components of the document. In an event hosted by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, these Founding Fathers debated issues from the Bill of Rights to slavery.
-
Reel America: "Man Against Microbe" - 1932
10 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."
-
Reel America: "A Special Report on Polio" - 1955
15 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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Reel America: "Plagues and Politics - The Story of the United States Public Health Service" - 1998
25 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.
-
Bush Family Gravesite
5 minutesWarren Finch, Director of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, took a walk to the burial site of President George H.W. Bush at his Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas. The 41st President was laid to rest next to his wife Barbara, and their daughter Robin.
-
Lectures in History: 20th-Century Roadside Attractions
25 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.
-
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
1 hour, 0 minuteHerbert 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.
-
James Madison & George Mason Constitutional Debate
1 hour, 0 minuteThe Constitutional Convention began in 1787 in Philadelphia. Virginians James Madison and George Mason found themselves on opposing sides regarding key components of the document. In an event hosted by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, these Founding Fathers debated issues from the Bill of Rights to slavery.
-
American Artifacts: Tenement Museum
30 minutesKira Garcia talked about New York City's Lower East Side Tenement Museum, including an exhibit on how immigrant families coped with poverty and crowded conditions in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
-
Presidential Leadership During the Cold War
55 minutesUniversity of Virginia history professor William Hitchcock discussed presidential leadership during the Cold War era and the Cold War's lasting impact. He is the author of "The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s." The Georgia Historical Society and UVA Club of Savannah co-hosted this event.