Michael Burlingame, "The Black
Man's President" on
The Presidency
Watch: 2 pm ET
Saturday
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Historian Michael Burlingame talked
about President Abraham Lincoln's relationships
with African Americans, and the evolution of his ideas about race and
equality in a democracy.
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Comparing the Work of Economists
Keynes, Hayek, & Friedman on Lectures in History
Watch: 8 pm
and 11 pm ET Saturday
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University of
California Santa Barbara economics professor Lanny
Ebenstein taught a class comparing the work of John Maynard
Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton
Friedman. He drew on examples from capitalistic and
socialist economies and argued that while all three 20th century
economists were important, Friedrich Hayek was the most impactful.
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"Today we tend to
think of a socialist as someone like Bernie Sanders . . . That
really wasn't Hayek's definition of government . . . What he meant
by socialism was the type of economic system that existed in the
Soviet Union, where government ran the whole economy and made all
of the economic decisions."
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LANNY EBENSTEIN on economist Friedrich Hayek
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Also on AHTV Saturday
Lorien Foote, "Rites of
Retaliation"
Lorien Foote, historian and author
of "Rites
of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American
Civil War," talked about how both sides accused
the other of being uncivilized and employing retaliatory tactics. Tune in at 9 am and 12 pm ET Saturday.
Latter-day
Saints Migration in the 1800s
In 1838, the Missouri governor
issued an executive order forcing thousands of members of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to flee West. Brigham Young
University professor Fred Woods talked about their journey to Salt
Lake City, Utah. This program was hosted by the Kansas City Public
Library in Missouri. Tune
in at 10 am, 1 pm and 10 pm ET Saturday.
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What happened this week in history?
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July 11, 1952: General Dwight Eisenhower accepted
the Republican presidential nomination.
July
14, 1948: President Harry Truman accepted the
Democratic party nomination.
July
15, 1979: President Jimmy Carter addressed the
nation and expressed concern that American democracy was threatened
by a “crisis of confidence."
July
16, 1790: Congress declared the newly designated
federal "District of Columbia" to be the capital of the
United States.
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Coming up Sunday on C-SPAN
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Sunday
on Q&A: Data
journalist Elliott Morris, U.S. correspondent for
"The Economist," discusses the history
of public opinion polling in the United States going back to the 19th
century and the development and use of polling since then. He also
talks about the accuracy of polls today and the often-criticized predictions made by forecasters during the 2016 and 2020 presidential
elections. Tune
in at 8 pm ET Sunday on C-SPAN.
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Presidential Recordings
Season 2: President Richard M.
Nixon
Interested in
secretly recorded phone conversations and peeking into the
behind-the-scenes of the Nixon administration?
Check the latest episode of Presidential Recordings
Podcast.
Episode
4 focuses on the 1972 election night. Listen to
conversations between President Richard Nixon
and White House Special Counsel Charles Colson,
White House Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman, New York
Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and
Republican presidential strategist Harry Dent.
As a bonus, hear portions of President Nixon's
victory speech and Democratic nominee George McGovern's
concession address. Listen now on Season 2 of Presidential
Recordings.
The Weekly
President Biden
recently proposed a gas tax holiday. One politician who has
dismissed the idea of a gas tax holiday: his former boss, Barack
Obama. In this episode of C-SPAN's "The Weekly,"
we return to the 2008 presidential campaign when John McCain proposed
a gas tax holiday and Obama called it "a gimmick." Listen now on The
Weekly.
🎧 Listen anytime, anywhere: Enjoy these
podcasts and discover many more at C-SPAN.org/podcasts, on the free
C-SPAN Now video app or wherever
you get your podcasts.
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About American
History TV
Explore our nation's past and discover the people and events that
document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with
American History TV to museums and historic sites. Watch archival
speeches from former presidents and other national leaders. Visit
classrooms, lectures and symposiums featuring professors and
historians.
Every
Saturday on C-SPAN2 starting at 8 am ET
or
online anytime at c-span.org/history.
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