C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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Luke Nichter, "The Year That Broke Politics"
1 hour, 5 minutesChapman University professor Luke Nichter discussed his book on the 1968 presidential race between vice president Hubert Humphrey, former vice president Richard Nixon, and former Alabama governor George Wallace. This event took place at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California.
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The Civil War: 1863 Wrightsville Bridge Burning
1 hour, 6 minutesHistorian Scott Mingus discussed the burning of the Wrightsville Bridge in Pennsylvania over the Susquehanna River in 1863. Retreating militia units burned the bridge in an effort to halt the advance of Confederate forces. The action saved Wrightsville but set up the Battle of Gettysburg. 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, 24 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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Phillip Dodd, "An American Renaissance"
1 hour, 0 minuteAuthor Phillip Dodd discussed the finest examples of Beaux-Arts Architecture associated with the opulence of the Gilded Age (1877-1920) and the stories of those who commissioned, designed, and built them. The Greenwich Historical Society in Cos Cob, Connecticut, hosted this event.
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Reel America: "Excavation of the Donner Party Site" - 1994
30 minutesThis 1994 U.S. Forest Service film showed an excavation of a site believed to be a Donner Party campsite. The Donner pioneers were migrating to California in a wagon train from the Midwest in the mid-1840s when they were stuck in a surprise October snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films produced mostly by government agencies.
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Principles and Ideas of the Constitution
1 hour, 0 minuteHistorians Mary Sarah Bilder, Michael Klarman, and Jeffrey Rosen discussed the evolution of the American Constitution. The 2023 George Washington Symposium was hosted by George Washington's Mount Vernon in Virginia.
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National Portrait Gallery 1898 Exhibit
1 hour, 0 minuteAmerican History TV toured the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's "1898" exhibit -- which brings together portraits of the major players in the Spanish-American War, and illustrates the expansion of U.S. interests and influence abroad in that era.
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The Civil War: 1863 Wrightsville Bridge Burning
1 hour, 7 minutesHistorian Scott Mingus discussed the burning of the Wrightsville Bridge in Pennsylvania over the Susquehanna River in 1863. Retreating militia units burned the bridge in an effort to halt the advance of Confederate forces. The action saved Wrightsville but set up the Battle of Gettysburg. 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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Phillip Dodd, "An American Renaissance"
1 hour, 0 minuteAuthor Phillip Dodd discussed the finest examples of Beaux-Arts Architecture associated with the opulence of the Gilded Age (1877-1920) and the stories of those who commissioned, designed, and built them. The Greenwich Historical Society in Cos Cob, Connecticut, hosted this event.
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Reel America: "Excavation of the Donner Party Site" - 1994
30 minutesThis 1994 U.S. Forest Service film showed an excavation of a site believed to be a Donner Party campsite. The Donner pioneers were migrating to California in a wagon train from the Midwest in the mid-1840s when they were stuck in a surprise October snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films produced mostly by government agencies.
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Principles and Ideas of the Constitution
1 hour, 0 minuteHistorians Mary Sarah Bilder, Michael Klarman, and Jeffrey Rosen discussed the evolution of the American Constitution. The 2023 George Washington Symposium was hosted by George Washington's Mount Vernon in Virginia.
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National Portrait Gallery 1898 Exhibit
1 hour, 0 minuteAmerican History TV toured the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's "1898" exhibit -- which brings together portraits of the major players in the Spanish-American War, and illustrates the expansion of U.S. interests and influence abroad in that era.
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The Civil War: 1863 Wrightsville Bridge Burning
1 hour, 7 minutesHistorian Scott Mingus discussed the burning of the Wrightsville Bridge in Pennsylvania over the Susquehanna River in 1863. Retreating militia units burned the bridge in an effort to halt the advance of Confederate forces. The action saved Wrightsville but set up the Battle of Gettysburg. 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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Phillip Dodd, "An American Renaissance"
1 hour, 0 minuteAuthor Phillip Dodd discussed the finest examples of Beaux-Arts Architecture associated with the opulence of the Gilded Age (1877-1920) and the stories of those who commissioned, designed, and built them. The Greenwich Historical Society in Cos Cob, Connecticut, hosted this event.
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Reel America: "Excavation of the Donner Party Site" - 1994
30 minutesThis 1994 U.S. Forest Service film showed an excavation of a site believed to be a Donner Party campsite. The Donner pioneers were migrating to California in a wagon train from the Midwest in the mid-1840s when they were stuck in a surprise October snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films produced mostly by government agencies.
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Principles and Ideas of the Constitution
1 hour, 0 minuteHistorians Mary Sarah Bilder, Michael Klarman, and Jeffrey Rosen discussed the evolution of the American Constitution. The 2023 George Washington Symposium was hosted by George Washington's Mount Vernon in Virginia.
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National Portrait Gallery 1898 Exhibit
59 minutesAmerican History TV toured the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's "1898" exhibit -- which brings together portraits of the major players in the Spanish-American War, and illustrates the expansion of U.S. interests and influence abroad in that era.
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The Civil War: 1863 Wrightsville Bridge Burning
1 hour, 6 minutesHistorian Scott Mingus discussed the burning of the Wrightsville Bridge in Pennsylvania over the Susquehanna River in 1863. Retreating militia units burned the bridge in an effort to halt the advance of Confederate forces. The action saved Wrightsville but set up the Battle of Gettysburg. 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, 24 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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Phillip Dodd, "An American Renaissance"
1 hour, 0 minuteAuthor Phillip Dodd discussed the finest examples of Beaux-Arts Architecture associated with the opulence of the Gilded Age (1877-1920) and the stories of those who commissioned, designed, and built them. The Greenwich Historical Society in Cos Cob, Connecticut, hosted this event.
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Reel America: "Excavation of the Donner Party Site" - 1994
29 minutesThis 1994 U.S. Forest Service film showed an excavation of a site believed to be a Donner Party campsite. The Donner pioneers were migrating to California in a wagon train from the Midwest in the mid-1840s when they were stuck in a surprise October snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films produced mostly by government agencies.
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Principles and Ideas of the Constitution
1 hour, 0 minuteHistorians Mary Sarah Bilder, Michael Klarman, and Jeffrey Rosen discussed the evolution of the American Constitution. The 2023 George Washington Symposium was hosted by George Washington's Mount Vernon in Virginia.