EXPLORE OUR NATION'S PAST WITH C-SPAN3
Discover the people and events that help document the American story.
Tune in this holiday weekend for four days of American History TV—starting at
8 am ET on Thanksgiving Day. We hope you enjoy these extra days of
American History TV, and we thank you for watching all year long!
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Virtual Mayflower
Project
Watch it: 8 pm ET
Thursday
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To mark the
400th anniversary of the Pilgrims' arrival in Plymouth, Massachusetts,
we talked to Robert Stone, director of the Virtual Mayflower Project.
The project uses virtual reality to recreate the ship and the Plymouth,
England, harbor from which it set sail. Using avatars and 360-degree
images of the virtual world, Professor Stone describes what life might
have been like for the Pilgrims and crew in the 17th century port.
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Leadership & James
Baker's Career
Watch it: 7 pm ET Saturday
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James 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. He's
interviewed about leadership and his career by attorney and historian
Talmage Boston in this program hosted by Baylor University Law School.
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James Buchanan & William
Rufus King Relationship on Lectures
in History®
Watch it: 8 pm and midnight ET
Saturday
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Eastern
Connecticut State University professor Thomas Balcerski teaches a class
on the relationship between two prominent mid-19th century politicians:
James Buchanan, who was 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 explores the gossip of the time that
the two close confidants might have been more than friends — a notion
that persists to this day.
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“In
the years before the Civil War, friendships among politicians such as
Buchanan and King provided a crucial way to bridge the growing chasm
between the North and the South. Simply put, friendships provided the
political glue that bound together a nation on the precipice of
disunion.”
THOMAS BALCERSKI
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JFK Assassination
Records
on American
Artifacts®
Watch it: 6 pm and 10 pm ET
Sunday
John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. We visited the
National Archives in 2014 to learn about the assassination records
and to see some of the iconic artifacts, such as Lee Harvey
Oswald's rifle, the so-called "magic bullet" and the
original 8 millimeter film of the assassination taken by Abraham
Zapruder. Our guide was Martha Wagner Murphy, who managed the staff
that maintains the records.
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Ronald Reagan
Presidential Library on The
Presidency
Watch it: 8 pm and midnight
ET Sunday
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum director Duke
Blackwood takes us on a virtual tour of the facility in Simi
Valley, California, about an hour northwest of Los Angeles. The
museum showcases the legacy of the nation's 40th president. Mr.
Blackwood also takes questions from viewers and National Archives
Foundation executive director Patrick Madden. The National Archives
Foundation hosted this event.
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