>> betsy devos' nomination to be education secretary advanced today, very early this morning in the senate, with a party line 52-48 vote to move to a final confirmation vote set for early next week. two republican senators, susan collins and lisa murkowski have announced they will vote against confirmation, although both voted today to move ahead with the nomination. live coverage on c-span 2 of next week's senate action. >> this weekend on american history tv on c-span 3, saturday evening at 6:00 eastern on the civil war, author and historian harold holser on abraham lincoln's views on immigration and his efforts to court the german american vote early in his career. >> one in ten immigrants, one in ten, joined the union military as soon as they arrived. by lincoln's optimistic

calculation, the result with black enlistment factored in and even with the dead, wounded, captured and missing subtracted, was a net gain for the military and for the country at large. >> then at 8:00 on lectures in history, rhodes college professor charles mckinney describes early civil rights efforts to end segregation during world war ii. >> the new deal also creates spaces for african-americans and southern african-americans in particular to start to push for civil and economic rights. civil and economic rights. it gives them again, to use roger wilkins' phrase, that human space to push for and aspire for that inclusion into the mainstream of american life. >> sunday afternoon at 4:00 on real america, the 1958 united states information agency film "communist propaganda." >> what do the communists have to say concerning our air force? >> an american sabre jet

accidentally dropped some rockets over florida. this report gives us every ground for questioning the possibility of accidents in general. since it claims that approximately 70% of the officers and enlisted men of the air force are psycho neurotic. >> and on artifacts, the museum of the american revolution is scheduled to open this spring in philadelphia. see a preview of the artifacts discovered during its construction. >> when we got them pasted together we see it says success so you have to go to the newspapers. you see how urban archaeology is this interweaving of the written record, primary record, secondary record, artifacts, that's what's really fun about it. we weave it all together. >> for our complete schedule go to c-span.org.

>> this weekend, c-span cities tour along with our comcast cable partners will explain the literary life and history of fresno, california. saturday at noon eastern on c-span 2's book tv, tim hernandez with his book "all they will call you" about the 1948 plane crash in california that killed 32 people including 28 mexican migrant workers. >> when the plane crash happened in 1948 and the news reports went across the country, woody guthrie was in new york at the time and you know, of course one of the great sort of rebellious folk icons that he is, he heard the news reports so he wrote a poem about it. he says in his poem good-bye to my juan, good-bye rosalito, adios, you won't have a name when you ride that big airplane. all they will call you will be deportee. >> learn about the life of david moss mosimoto, author of "harvest sun" as he recounts his personal story about childhood,

race and identity in california's central valley. >> historically, japanese americans had a very vibrant agricultural community partly because when the immigrants first came, this was the only entry point for a lot of them in american economy and american communities. >> sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span 3, the history of farming and agriculture in fresno from fresno county farm bureau executive director ryan jacobson. >> we have a mediterranean climate that's found only in five rooj egions throughout the world and we are the only one in the united states. >> and we visit the mansion museum and learn about the history of martin theodore kearney, who established the california raisin growers association. >> he especially was interested in the growing of raisins and wanted to get together a co-op of raisin growers to kind of structure the pricing, control quality of raisins. >> watch c-span cities