>> every weekend booktv birchings you 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. here is what is coming up this weekend: >> why were the jews killed? bus of a long-standing tradition of hatred activated under particular political circumstances. fomented by a regime that was thoroughly capable of whipping

up the population to participate in. then, untook a war into a region where there were hundreds of thousands of the people it hat define as enemies and it resolved under the conditions of wartime, to wipe these people out. >> the crucial thing isn't to never spend money on any kind of luxury at all the crucial thing is to be self-aware about what you really value, what is really worth spending money on and what is something where you just wasting money or just spending it just because people tell you this is the kind of thing you ought to be doing or the kind of thing you ought to be buying. >> sunday, georgetown university

professor michael eric dyson, looks at the country's racial divide. >> what we want is a cessation of the velocity of stair stereo type and -- a granting to us the same humanity you grant each other. >> this weekend on american history tv on c-span3. saturday night, on lectures and history, james maddison university rem on the evolution suburbs. >> the suburban kind of style takes off after the civil war and people begin to empathize having a detached home, a

cottage style house, space, air. >> and then elaine france parson talks about the costume odd the klu klux klan and how the dress and rituals were used as tools of intimidation and terrorism. >> the costumes wrapped a layer of meaning around the acts of violence and ended up -- the costumes interpreted what the violence meant and helped the violence to tell a story. >> sunday afternoon at 4:00 on real america, the 1967 cbs news report on the apollo 1 disaster that killed three astronauts on january 27th. there was a flash and that was it cooking to nasa spokesman watch thing television screen. the screen went blank and he said there was no communication from the astronauts. they died silently, and apparently swiftly. >> at 8:00, on the presidency, sidney blumenthal, on the

political life of abraham lincoln about the political forces that shaped our 16th 16th president's views on slavery. >> the fight must go on, he would write to a friend, two weeks after this defeat, to douglas. in the 1858 senate race. the cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one or even 100 defeats. >> for a complete american history tv schedule go to c-span.org. >> now the supreme court oral argument in lynch dedimaya. they will decide whether the term crimes of violence" is unconstitutionally vague.