C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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African American Letters to Lincoln
1 hour, 39 minutesActors read letters from African Americans to Abraham Lincoln onstage at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where the 16th president was assassinated in 1865. Author Jonathan White and historian Edna Greene Medford talked between performances about African American attitudes and beliefs about President Lincoln.
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The Civil War: Fight Over Slavery in Antebellum Newspapers
1 hour, 2 minutesVirginia Center for Civil War Studies director Paul Quigley talked about the role newspapers played in dispersing information and serving as a forum for the national debate over slavery in antebellum America. The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg hosted this event.
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Antonia Hylton, "Madness - Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum"
1 hour, 7 minutesJournalist Antonia Hylton looked at one of the last segregated asylums and the role of race and mental health treatment in the Jim Crow south. Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, DC, hosted this event.
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Lectures in History: Confederate Monuments & Labor Integration in New Orleans
41 minutesTulane University History Professor Rien Fertel discussed the erection of Confederate monuments in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century at the same time as efforts to integrate and unionize Black and white dock laborers. Tulane University is in New Orleans.
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President Biden Signs Juneteenth Federal Holiday Bill
32 minutesPresident Biden signed into law the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, making it now the 11th annual federal holiday and the first one established since the creation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. "I've only been president for several months, but I think this will go down for me as one of the greatest honors I will have had as president" he told an audience of lawmakers and guests at the White House. He added, "Great nations don't ignore their most painful moments." Also in attendance at the signing was Vice President Kamala Harris, members of the Congressional Black Caucus and Opal Lee, the activist known as the grandmother of Juneteenth.
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Annette Gordon-Reed, "On Juneteenth"
55 minutesOn June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger announced the end of legalized slavery in Texas. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed explained the significance of Juneteenth for Texas and nationally. This program was part of the Lincoln Forum's annual meeting in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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African American Letters to Lincoln
1 hour, 39 minutesActors read letters from African Americans to Abraham Lincoln onstage at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where the 16th president was assassinated in 1865. Author Jonathan White and historian Edna Greene Medford talked between performances about African American attitudes and beliefs about President Lincoln.
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The Civil War: Fight Over Slavery in Antebellum Newspapers
1 hour, 3 minutesVirginia Center for Civil War Studies director Paul Quigley talked about the role newspapers played in dispersing information and serving as a forum for the national debate over slavery in antebellum America. The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg hosted this event.
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Antonia Hylton, "Madness - Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum"
1 hour, 6 minutesJournalist Antonia Hylton looked at one of the last segregated asylums and the role of race and mental health treatment in the Jim Crow south. Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, DC, hosted this event.
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Lectures in History: Confederate Monuments & Labor Integration in New Orleans
42 minutesTulane University History Professor Rien Fertel discussed the erection of Confederate monuments in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century at the same time as efforts to integrate and unionize Black and white dock laborers. Tulane University is in New Orleans.
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President Biden Signs Juneteenth Federal Holiday Bill
31 minutesPresident Biden signed into law the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, making it now the 11th annual federal holiday and the first one established since the creation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. "I've only been president for several months, but I think this will go down for me as one of the greatest honors I will have had as president" he told an audience of lawmakers and guests at the White House. He added, "Great nations don't ignore their most painful moments." Also in attendance at the signing was Vice President Kamala Harris, members of the Congressional Black Caucus and Opal Lee, the activist known as the grandmother of Juneteenth.
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Annette Gordon-Reed, "On Juneteenth"
55 minutesOn June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger announced the end of legalized slavery in Texas. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed explained the significance of Juneteenth for Texas and nationally. This program was part of the Lincoln Forum's annual meeting in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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African American Letters to Lincoln
1 hour, 39 minutesActors read letters from African Americans to Abraham Lincoln onstage at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where the 16th president was assassinated in 1865. Author Jonathan White and historian Edna Greene Medford talked between performances about African American attitudes and beliefs about President Lincoln.
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The Civil War: Fight Over Slavery in Antebellum Newspapers
1 hour, 3 minutesVirginia Center for Civil War Studies director Paul Quigley talked about the role newspapers played in dispersing information and serving as a forum for the national debate over slavery in antebellum America. The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg hosted this event.
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Antonia Hylton, "Madness - Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum"
1 hour, 6 minutesJournalist Antonia Hylton looked at one of the last segregated asylums and the role of race and mental health treatment in the Jim Crow south. Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, DC, hosted this event.
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Lectures in History: Confederate Monuments & Labor Integration in New Orleans
47 minutesTulane University History Professor Rien Fertel discussed the erection of Confederate monuments in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century at the same time as efforts to integrate and unionize Black and white dock laborers. Tulane University is in New Orleans.
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President Biden Signs Juneteenth Federal Holiday Bill
32 minutesPresident Biden signed into law the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, making it now the 11th annual federal holiday and the first one established since the creation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. "I've only been president for several months, but I think this will go down for me as one of the greatest honors I will have had as president" he told an audience of lawmakers and guests at the White House. He added, "Great nations don't ignore their most painful moments." Also in attendance at the signing was Vice President Kamala Harris, members of the Congressional Black Caucus and Opal Lee, the activist known as the grandmother of Juneteenth.
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Annette Gordon-Reed, "On Juneteenth"
55 minutesOn June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger announced the end of legalized slavery in Texas. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed explained the significance of Juneteenth for Texas and nationally. This program was part of the Lincoln Forum's annual meeting in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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African American Letters to Lincoln
1 hour, 43 minutesActors read letters from African Americans to Abraham Lincoln onstage at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., where the 16th president was assassinated in 1865. Author Jonathan White and historian Edna Greene Medford talked between performances about African American attitudes and beliefs about President Lincoln.
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The Civil War: Fight Over Slavery in Antebellum Newspapers
1 hour, 5 minutesVirginia Center for Civil War Studies director Paul Quigley talked about the role newspapers played in dispersing information and serving as a forum for the national debate over slavery in antebellum America. The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg hosted this event.
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Antonia Hylton, "Madness - Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum"
1 hour, 6 minutesJournalist Antonia Hylton looked at one of the last segregated asylums and the role of race and mental health treatment in the Jim Crow south. Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, DC, hosted this event.
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Lectures in History: Confederate Monuments & Labor Integration in New Orleans
45 minutesTulane University History Professor Rien Fertel discussed the erection of Confederate monuments in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century at the same time as efforts to integrate and unionize Black and white dock laborers. Tulane University is in New Orleans.
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B.J. Hollars, "Wisconsin for Kennedy"
47 minutesAuthor B.J. Hollars revealed how Senator John Kennedy - in a political first - sought to position himself as the Democratic presidential nominee by winning the 1960 Wisconsin primary and creating an aura of inevitability. His research uncovered oral histories with long forgotten characters in this story, including a cranberry farmer, union leader, mayor and an architect.
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Congress Investigates: 1987 Iran-Contra Hearings
58 minutesIn 1987, House & Senate select committees jointly examined the clandestine operation of selling missiles to Iran in exchange for the release of hostages in Lebanon, with proceeds going to Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
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Freedom Rider Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
46 minutesJoan Trumpauer Mulholland discussed her activism during the Civil Rights Movement including her participation in Freedom Rides, sit-ins and the 1963 March on Washington. This event took place at the National Community Action Foundation's 2024 conference in Washington, D.C.