Speeches
that Defined a Presidency—Harry
Truman and Dwight Eisenhower
The Presidency
Watch:
9:30 pm ET Saturday and 12:30 am Sunday (2/26)
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This week on
"Speeches
That Defined a Presidency," watch as we take you
through the 1950s and show you how two presidents spoke
about important political issues of their time.
Harry
Truman and Dwight Eisenhower both
presided over the early years of the Cold War. This
selection of their speeches includes Mr. Truman's 1949 inaugural
address, and Ike's 1957 and 1961 speeches – on school
integration in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the growing
"military-industrial
complex."
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In the years following the American
Civil War, the nation's attention centered on Reconstruction
– on bringing the southern states back into full political
participation in the Union, guaranteeing rights to former slaves and
defining new relationships between Blacks and whites.
This week, on Lectures in History, University of Maryland
Eastern Shore history professor Arlisha
Norwood teaches a class on the role black women
played during the Civil War and Reconstruction. University of
Maryland Eastern Shore is a historically black university
located in Princess Anne, Maryland, and was founded during the
Reconstruction Era.
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Reparations for Slavery
Watch: 6:30 pm ET Saturday
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Photo by Billy
Delfs / National Endowment for the Humanities
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Andrew Delbanco, the Alexander Hamilton Professor
of American Studies at Columbia University, delivered the National
Endowment for the Humanities 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the
Humanities. NEH’s Jefferson Lecture is the
highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished
intellectual achievement in the humanities.
Delbanco's lecture, “The Question of Reparations: Our Past,
Our Present, Our Future,” was delivered at President
Lincoln's Cottage, an historic site and museum in northwest
Washington, D.C. Delbanco addresses reparations for slavery in the
United States, using history, philosophy, and literature to examine a
wide range of perspectives on the debate.
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Reel America: Farmer Henry Browne
This short 1942 U.S. Agriculture Department film is
a World War II propaganda effort celebrating the
contributions of African Americans to the war effort. Narrated by
actor and civil rights activist Canada Lee, the film was nominated
for an Academy Award.
Tune in at 9:15 am & 12:15 pm ET Saturday
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The Civil War: 2022
Lincoln Forum: War Financing and Lincoln's Assassination
From the Lincoln
Forum in Gettysburg, historians discuss people and politics of
the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Tune
in at 2 pm ET Saturday
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Coming up Sunday on C-SPAN
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This week
on Q&A: Columbia University history
professor Matthew Connelly, author of "The
Declassification Engine," talks about the
increase in U.S. government secrecy from World War II to today. He
argues that many classified documents are never made public because
they expose government criminality and incompetence, and that
overclassification in an effort to keep the country safe is doing
more harm than good.
Tune
in at 8 pm ET Sunday on C-SPAN
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"My name is Jimmy Carter,
and I'm running for President." That's how Jimmy Carter began
his speech accepting the presidential nomination at the Democratic
Convention on July 15, 1976.
In this episode of C-SPAN's podcast The Weekly, that's
the only clip you'll hear of Jimmy Carter talking about himself. This
episode is all about what President Carter said about other
presidents. Here's Carter talking about the man who defeated him when
he ran for re-election in 1980, Ronald Reagan: "Under President
Ronald Reagan, our nation stood strong and resolute and made possible
the beginning of the end of the cold war. This has led to a new
opportunity for our country to exhibit its greatness which we accept
for granted too often, more clearly to people around the world."
What
did President Carter say about other presidents -- from
Richard Nixon to Joe Biden?
Find out in this episode of C-SPAN's podcast The Weekly.
Listen now or find The Weekly
wherever you listen to podcasts.
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