C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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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.
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The Civil War: Richard Blackett, "Making Freedom"
1 hour, 1 minuteVanderbilt University history professor emeritus Richard Blackett talked about the Underground Railroad and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law. The Virginia Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia, hosted this talk.
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Vineyard Signing Community History and Legacy
1 hour, 30 minutesLinguists Richard Meier and Justin Power discussed the deaf community on Martha's Vineyard in the early 19th century and put the community's now-extinct system of signing into a broader historical context. The Martha's Vineyard Museum hosted this event.
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The Navy at D-Day
59 minutesAuthor Craig Symonds ("World War II at Sea") discussed the transport of troops across the English Channel as well as naval gunfire support during the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944. This event took place at the Gettysburg College and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Society's conference on the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
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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.
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The Civil War: Richard Blackett, "Making Freedom"
59 minutesVanderbilt University history professor emeritus Richard Blackett talked about the Underground Railroad and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law. The Virginia Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia, hosted this talk.
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Vineyard Signing Community History and Legacy
1 hour, 32 minutesLinguists Richard Meier and Justin Power discussed the deaf community on Martha's Vineyard in the early 19th century and put the community's now-extinct system of signing into a broader historical context. The Martha's Vineyard Museum hosted this event.
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The Navy at D-Day
59 minutesAuthor Craig Symonds ("World War II at Sea") discussed the transport of troops across the English Channel as well as naval gunfire support during the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944. This event took place at the Gettysburg College and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Society's conference on the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
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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.
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The Civil War: Richard Blackett, "Making Freedom"
59 minutesVanderbilt University history professor emeritus Richard Blackett talked about the Underground Railroad and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law. The Virginia Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia, hosted this talk.
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Vineyard Signing Community History and Legacy
1 hour, 30 minutesLinguists Richard Meier and Justin Power discussed the deaf community on Martha's Vineyard in the early 19th century and put the community's now-extinct system of signing into a broader historical context. The Martha's Vineyard Museum hosted this event.
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The Navy at D-Day
59 minutesAuthor Craig Symonds ("World War II at Sea") discussed the transport of troops across the English Channel as well as naval gunfire support during the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944. This event took place at the Gettysburg College and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Society's conference on the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
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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
1 hour, 0 minuteIn 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
45 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.
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The Civil War: Richard Blackett, "Making Freedom"
59 minutesVanderbilt University history professor emeritus Richard Blackett talked about the Underground Railroad and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law. The Virginia Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia, hosted this talk.
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Vineyard Signing Community History and Legacy
1 hour, 29 minutesLinguists Richard Meier and Justin Power discussed the deaf community on Martha's Vineyard in the early 19th century and put the community's now-extinct system of signing into a broader historical context. The Martha's Vineyard Museum hosted this event.