taking calculus and chemistry and still a leader on the field and off the field. so proud of all of them. >> how do you balance life here and life back in kansas? >> that's a great question. the president has a very challenging schedule for us. we work from monday morning to friday afternoon. most of us work saturdays as well. we have to figure it out. i have a little apartment here. very comfortable there. i will fly very much and often as i can. i bet my wife will visit me once a m there. try to get back for cal's swim meets. i have k state season football tickets. hopefully another son at k state next year and reason to see him. >> thank you. >> happy new year. >> this weekend on american history on c-span 3, saturday night at 8:00 eastern, james madison university professor

evan frit on suburbs from 1800s to present day. >> the suburban style takes off after the civil war. and people emphasize a detached home, cottage style house, fresh air, accessible space, a yard, a garden. >> then at 9:05 p.m. eastern, did you kw due cane history teacher parsons talks about the ku klux klan and how costumes were used as tools of terrorism. >> it interpret rets what the advice lens mviolence men and h tell a story. >> the real america, the apollo 1 disaster that killed astronaut during the launch rehearsal 50 years ago on january 27.

>> there was a flash and that was it, according to a nasa sportsman watching a few hundred yards away from launch pad 34. the screen went back and he said there was no communication from the astronauts. they died sigh rently and apparently swiftly. >> at 8:00 on the presidency. blumenthal, the political life of abe lincoln. about the political forces that shaped our 16th president's views on slavery. >> the fight must go on. he wrote to a friend two weeks after his 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. >> every weekend within book tv

brings you 48 hours of non-fiction books and authors. here is what is coming up this weekend. saturday night at 8:30 eastern, peter hays ak dem irchair at the holocaust war museum an author of why explaining the holocaust. >> so why were the jews killed? because of a long standing tradition of hatred activated mr. particular political circumstances. b by a regime thoroughly able to whip up the population able to participate in it. then undertook a war in a region where there were hundreds thousands of people it defined as enemies. and it resolves under the conditions of war time. to wipe these people out. >> and then at 10:00 p.m. eastern afterwards, alfred university professor emr emrys westacott looks at his

book "the wisdom of frugality, why less is more, more or less." >> the crucial thing is to be self aware about what it is you really value. what is really worth spending money on. and what is something where you just are wasting money or just spending it just because people tell you this is the kind of thing you aught to be doing or kind of thing you aught to be buying. >> sunday, georgetown university professor michael eric dyson, author of tears we cannot stop, a sermon to white mer da, looks at the country's racial divide. >> what we want is a cessation of the velocity of is itero type and a granting to us of the same humanity that you grant each other. >> go to book tv.org for the complete weekend schedule.tv.or complete weekend schedule. >> theup