C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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Ned Blackhawk "The Rediscovery of America"
1 hour, 6 minutesYale University professor Ned Blackhawk, winner of the 2023 National Book Award, talked about the role of native people across five centuries of American history - from Spanish colonial exploration to 20th century reservation policies. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia hosted this program.
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Lectures in History: Television, Internet & White House Communications
1 hour, 14 minutesChapman University Professor Lori Cox Han discussed how television and the internet impacted White House communications strategies. Chapman University is located in Orange, California.
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Reel America: "The Army Nurse" - 1945
16 minutesAccording to this 1945 War Department film, 57,000 women served as Army nurses during World War II. Produced by the Army Signal Corps for the Treasury Department, this short film was released at the end of 1945 to help sell Victory Bonds to finance the care of wounded servicemen, and to show the critical role played by nurses during and after the conflict.
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Vice President Gerald Ford
1 hour, 14 minutesHistorian Richard Norton Smith talked about Gerald Ford - and the vice presidency - on the 50th anniversary of Mr. Ford becoming Richard Nixon's vice president on Dec. 6, 1973, after Spiro Agnew resigned amid an income tax evasion scandal. This was part of a conference on American vice presidents hosted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Presidential Foundation.
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Reel America: "Forging the Alliance - President Kennedy Visits Venezuela and Colombia" - 1961
17 minutesThis U.S. Information Service film documents President Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's tour of Venezuela and visit with Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt. President Kennedy makes remarks in support of a land and housing program and the First Lady speaks to the crowd in Spanish. The second half of the film documents their tour of Colombia and appearances with President Alberto Lleras Camargo.
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Lectures in History: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger & U.S. Foreign Policy
1 hour, 6 minutesEmory University professor Patrick Allitt taught a class about President Richard Nixon, his National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and some of their key foreign policy initiatives. Professor Allitt focused on Nixon and Kissinger's attempts to thaw relations with the Soviet Union, which resulted in the first arms control treaty between the two countries. He also talked about their diplomatic overtures towards China, including Nixon's visit in 1972, which re-established official communications with the communist nation for the first time in 25 years. Later in the class, Professor Allitt and his students discused Kissinger's 1979 memoir recounting his activities during Nixon's first term. Emory University provided this video.
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Conversation with Henry Kissinger
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The Civil War: 1865 Battle of High Bridge
1 hour, 25 minutesHistorian Jerry Desmond discussed the 1865 Battle of High Bridge, near Farmville, Virginia. Failure to destroy this railroad crossing bridge enabled General Grant's Union forces to catch up with General Robert E. Lee and the Confederates at Farmville in the closing days of the Civil War. This was part of the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier's annual event in Petersburg, Virginia.
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Lydia Moland, "A Radical American Life"
1 hour, 25 minutesAuthor Lydia Moland discussed the life of abolitionist Lydia Maria Child. Best known for her poem "Over the River and Through the Wood," Child was also an advocate for racial equality, women's suffrage, and Native American rights. The Medford Historical Society in Massachusetts hosted this event.
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Mark Podvia, "The Strange Case of Dr. Paul Schoeppe"
1 hour, 1 minuteAuthor Mark Podvia discussed the 1869 case of 'Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Paul Schoeppe,' a murder case which determined the way medical evidence was presented and appeals were conducted in criminal cases. The Cumberland County Historical Society in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, hosted this event.
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Marc Johnson, "Mansfield and Dirksen"
1 hour, 4 minutesHistorian Marc Johson discussed the political and personal relationship between former Senate Republican leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois and former Democratic leader Mike Mansfield of Montana in the 1960s. The Lewis & Clark Library in Helena, Montana, hosted this event.
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Artifacts from NASA's Project Apollo 1961-75
1 hour, 0 minuteTeasel Muir-Harmony, curator of the Apollo collection at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, examined the history of Project Apollo (1961-75) and how the NASA program impacted American society and politics. This event took place at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture in Richmond, Virginia.
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Lectures in History: Television, Internet & White House Communications
1 hour, 15 minutesChapman University Professor Lori Cox Han discussed how television and the internet impacted White House communications strategies. Chapman University is located in Orange, California.
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Reel America: "The Army Nurse" - 1945
16 minutesAccording to this 1945 War Department film, 57,000 women served as Army nurses during World War II. Produced by the Army Signal Corps for the Treasury Department, this short film was released at the end of 1945 to help sell Victory Bonds to finance the care of wounded servicemen, and to show the critical role played by nurses during and after the conflict.
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Vice President Gerald Ford
1 hour, 14 minutesHistorian Richard Norton Smith talked about Gerald Ford - and the vice presidency - on the 50th anniversary of Mr. Ford becoming Richard Nixon's vice president on Dec. 6, 1973, after Spiro Agnew resigned amid an income tax evasion scandal. This was part of a conference on American vice presidents hosted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Presidential Foundation.
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Reel America: "Forging the Alliance - President Kennedy Visits Venezuela and Colombia" - 1961
20 minutesThis U.S. Information Service film documents President Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's tour of Venezuela and visit with Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt. President Kennedy makes remarks in support of a land and housing program and the First Lady speaks to the crowd in Spanish. The second half of the film documents their tour of Colombia and appearances with President Alberto Lleras Camargo.
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Lectures in History: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger & U.S. Foreign Policy
1 hour, 5 minutesEmory University professor Patrick Allitt taught a class about President Richard Nixon, his National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and some of their key foreign policy initiatives. Professor Allitt focused on Nixon and Kissinger's attempts to thaw relations with the Soviet Union, which resulted in the first arms control treaty between the two countries. He also talked about their diplomatic overtures towards China, including Nixon's visit in 1972, which re-established official communications with the communist nation for the first time in 25 years. Later in the class, Professor Allitt and his students discused Kissinger's 1979 memoir recounting his activities during Nixon's first term. Emory University provided this video.
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Conversation with Henry Kissinger
1 hour, 55 minutes -
The Civil War: 1865 Battle of High Bridge
1 hour, 25 minutesHistorian Jerry Desmond discussed the 1865 Battle of High Bridge, near Farmville, Virginia. Failure to destroy this railroad crossing bridge enabled General Grant's Union forces to catch up with General Robert E. Lee and the Confederates at Farmville in the closing days of the Civil War. This was part of the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier's annual event in Petersburg, Virginia.
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Lydia Moland, "A Radical American Life"
1 hour, 25 minutesAuthor Lydia Moland discussed the life of abolitionist Lydia Maria Child. Best known for her poem "Over the River and Through the Wood," Child was also an advocate for racial equality, women's suffrage, and Native American rights. The Medford Historical Society in Massachusetts hosted this event.
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Mark Podvia, "The Strange Case of Dr. Paul Schoeppe"
1 hour, 0 minuteAuthor Mark Podvia discussed the 1869 case of 'Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Paul Schoeppe,' a murder case which determined the way medical evidence was presented and appeals were conducted in criminal cases. The Cumberland County Historical Society in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, hosted this event.
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Marc Johnson, "Mansfield and Dirksen"
1 hour, 3 minutesHistorian Marc Johson discussed the political and personal relationship between former Senate Republican leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois and former Democratic leader Mike Mansfield of Montana in the 1960s. The Lewis & Clark Library in Helena, Montana, hosted this event.
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American History TV
1 hour, 7 minutesPeople and events that help document the American Story.