Saturday on C-SPAN2: The Suffragist Playbook Authors Lucinda Robb & Rebecca Boggs Roberts
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Gerald and Betty Ford on The
Presidency
Watch it: 1 pm ET Saturday
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Gerald
Ford's Life
and
Presidency
Gerald
R. Ford Presidential Museum curator Donald Holloway uses archival
photographs and film to talk about the 38th president, who took
office Aug. 9, 1974, after President Nixon's resignation. Mr. Ford
remains the only White House occupant never to have been elected
either vice president or president.
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Betty
Ford and
White
House Gardens
Former
first lady Betty Ford is honored for her life's work, with a special
focus on the White House grounds and gardens. Featured speakers
include landscape historian Jonathan Pliska, author of A Garden for
the President, and Mrs. Ford's daughter, Susan Ford
Bales.
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Lucinda Robb &
Rebecca Boggs Roberts,
The
Suffragist Playbook
Watch it: 9:25 am, 12:25 pm
& 9:25 pm ET Saturday
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How
did the suffragists win the vote? Lucinda Robb and Rebecca Boggs
Roberts, heirs to two prominent political families, explain their
strategies and tactics in The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to
Changing the World.
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“This idea of taking a cause, a march on Washington,
that was the suffragists' idea. It's now so common that we just
think of it as a traffic headache, but it had never been done
before in this way. The idea of a political march through the
corridors of federal Washington, from the legislative branch to the
executive branch — that was Alice Paul's idea.”
—REBECCA BOGGS ROBERTS
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📚 THIS WEEK ON BOOKNOTES+: Theodore
Bilbo (1877-1947) served twice as governor of Mississippi and was
elected to the U.S. Senate three times. He was a liberal, a strong
supporter of FDR's New Deal and a member of the Ku Klux Klan. We
talked with University of Southern Mississippi history professor
emeritus Chester "Bo" Morgan, author of Redneck
Liberal, to find out more about Theodore Bilbo and his
controversial political career.
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AMERICAN HISTORY TV IN PRIME TIME
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Tune in to C-SPAN3 starting Monday, Labor Day, for
five evenings of American History TV programming. Below are some
highlights from the programs, which start each night at 8 pm ET:
Monday
— Labor History
Unionizing Women Garment Workers
Tuesday
— Women in Society
Women and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Wednesday
— Conservative Leaders & Politics
History Bookshelf: Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor
Thursday
— Free Speech
Free Speech and Political Cartoons
Friday
— Cars in America
U.S. Automobile History
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About American
History TV
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and symposiums featuring professors and historians.
Every
Saturday on C-SPAN2 starting at 8 am ET
or
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