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American History TV: The People & Places
of Our Past
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Happy Presidents' Day!
Here's highlights for this long weekend on American
History TV:
• Saturday's
full lineup of programs here (C-SPAN2).
• Sunday's full lineup of programs here (C-SPAN3).
• Monday's full lineup of programs here (C-SPAN2).
9:25
am (2/19): The Presidency: George
Washington's 1796 Farewell Address
6:50
pm (2/19): The Presidency: Lindsay
Chervinsky & Matthew Costello, "Mourning the
Presidents"
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What was FDR's relationship
with the Supreme Court he created — having appointed seven of nine justices — and did
the court reflect his wartime vision? Author Cliff
Sloan provides some answers. He is a
constitutional law and criminal justice professor at Georgetown
University Law Center.
In his book "The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made,"
professor Sloan writes: "FDR's Justices were a fractious crew,
plagued by internal rivalries, bitter resentments, and
behind-the-curtain feuds. But they were united in their loyalty to
the President and frequently jostled for his favor."
William
Harris, director of the Franklin
D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum,
conducted the interview at the Hyde Park, New York, museum.
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Authors
Kate
Masur and Dylan
Penningroth discuss the role of African Americans
in the civil rights movement prior to the 1950s and 1960s. They
touch on Frederick Douglass and his involvement as part
of the early civil rights movement in America, as well as lesser
known individuals like Black abolitionists John
Jones, who spent 20 years fighting to repeal the
Black Laws of Illinois, and David
Jenkins, an agent of the Underground Railroad and
politician in Ohio and Mississippi.
Jeffrey Rosen,
president and CEO of the National
Constitution Center in
Philadelphia, moderates the talk.
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University
of Montana history professor Leif
Fredrickson examines the
1909
labor protests in Missoula, Montana, which sparked a
high-profile fight over free speech and police violence. Newspaper
headlines from that time state: "I.W.W. organizers arrested,
jailed and viciously beaten by 200-pound Republican sheriff in home
of Senator Dixon — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn of New York dragged to
Bastille for selling union papers on street." Elizabeth
Gurley Flynn was a labor leader for the
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and founding member of the
American Civil Liberties Union, advocating for women's rights.
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Historic Campaign Speeches
John McCain's 2000 Michigan
Campaign Rally &
Bernie
Sanders' 2016 Michigan Campaign Rally
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As
the presidential primary season builds toward Super Tuesday on March
5, American
History TV this Saturday looks at campaigns past
to hear from presidential candidates making their case before voters.
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• 10:30
am/pm: John McCain 2000 Michigan Campaign Rally
Republican presidential candidate John McCain
acknowledged supporters as he and Mrs. McCain walked to the
stage.Senator Fred
Thompson and former Republican candidate Gary Bauer
both spoke in support of Senator McCain's candidacy. Senator McCain
spoke to the cheering crowd about his campaign and his policy
positions.
Watch a Preview
of McCain's speech
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• 11:05
am/pm: Bernie Sanders 2016 Michigan Campaign Rally
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke at a campaign rally
in Dearborn, Michigan. He was introduced by Representative Keith
Ellison (D-MN). The Democratic presidential
candidate outlined policy differences between himself and presidential
hopeful Hillary Clinton on health care, trade, the economy and the war
in Iraq.
Watch
a Preview of Sanders' speech
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What issue is most
important to you in this presidential election?
Have
your voice be heard.
Go to C-SPAN's Campaign 2024 main page:
www.c-span.org/campaign2024
• Click the Record Your Voice tab and
walk through the steps to make your 30-seconds (or less) recording.
Your "Voices
2024" video may be featured online
or on-air.
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Sessions from the 2023
Lincoln Forum
The Civil War
Located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the forum is
held on the days leading up to the annual commemoration of President
Lincoln’s November 19 Gettysburg Address at the National Soldiers’
Cemetery.
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Author
Fergus
Bordewich discusses President Ulysses Grant's
efforts to dismantle the KKK and other Reconstruction-era white
supremist groups. He chronicles how only when the 18th president was
inaugurated did the federal government begin to act to dismantle the
Klan, which had thrived under Andrew Johnson's presidency.
Legislation crafted by Republican Radicals (so-called at the time)
made it possible for President Grant to take decisive action against
the Klan using federal prosecutors and the U.S. Army.
He is interviewed by Jane
Campbell, president of the United
States Capitol Historical Society.
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1980 "Free to Choose" series
Milton Friedman on
Government Control of Education
(ep. 6)
Watch
Saturday: 7 pm
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American History TV is airing Milton and Rose
Friedman's original 1980 "Free to Choose," 10-part
public television series —Saturdays at 7 p.m. ET.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton
Friedman argues for the decentralization of
American schools and vouchers to improve the quality of
education. Episode six was originally titled "What's Wrong
With Our Schools?"
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Coming up Sunday on C-SPAN
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Q&A: Virginia Speaker of the House Don Scott (D) on
His Life and Career
“For every young kid that makes a mistake, they can look at Don Scott and say,
‘I’ll never give up. I can still be what I want to be in America.’ ” That was former Republican governor Bob McDonnell
of Virginia speaking about Q&A's guest this
week, the state's newly elected Democratic speaker of the House of
Delegates. Don Scott talks about the hurdles he overcame,
including spending almost eight years in prison, to become Virginia's
first Black speaker in 405 years.
Tune in at 8 pm
& 11 pm or enjoy Q&A as
a podcast.
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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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app to listen to C-SPAN podcasts
— including American History TV's Lectures in History —
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