>> i have a notebook here. i took down a few remarks. the media will focus on the bad things. [laughter] >> thank you all. [indiscernible conversation] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] you are watching american history tv, 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span3. follow us on twitter at c-span history for information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. tonight on afterwords, pulitzer prize-winning journalist telling cooper discusses the life and presidency of liberia's first elected female president in her book "madam president the ickes.

neri journey -- the extraordinary journey." >> would you first meet madame president? -- aboutknown her of her all my life. she was minister of finance in the 70's when the coup happened. parents.my she was somebody that as a child growing up i had heard of. power. speaking truth to in 1985 when she was arrested and thrown into jail, i heard all about that and she became at this time sort of a political icon. afterwords on c-span2 book tv.

sunday on the presidency, historian annette gordon reed talks about thomas jefferson and his relationship with the enslaved hemmings family who lived and worked in his monticello plantation. here's a preview. >> one of the reasons it was easy to dismiss the story of the hemmings family was cut people did know anything about the hemmings family other than that there was a scandal and they knew the name sally hemmings and manage new the name james hemmings. also did notpeople know much about the family. that if i could tell the story in a way that made people feel as if they had a stake in them, it might give people cause. i live in manhattan.

partly in manhattan partly in cambridge. it is a big city, crowded city. sort of an anonymous city. somebody in the neighborhood, i immediately begin to see them after that. you used to see them all the time, but you did not know them. once you begin to know them, you noticed children come you notice where you expect to see them. you have a stake in them. that is what i wanted to do with the hemmings family was give people a stake in this family. watch annette gordon reed on thomas jefferson and the hemmings family on the presidency. here on american history tv only on c-span3. monday night on the communicators, michael

beckerman, president and ceo of the internet association, made up of 40 internet companies including google, facebook and amazon talks about new regulation proposals from the fcc and how to propose -- out to protect a free and open internet. he is interviewed by margaret harding mcgill. the fcc is proposing to remove the agencies authority over internet exchange. >> at the end of the day, it is about consumers. you pay your internet service you are paying a lot of money and you want access to the entire internet. if your experience is altered, a site is blocked, or there are things going on, you don't know where that is happening in the process. last mile, the point of interconnection, you don't now. all of should be included to protect the consumer.

watch the communicators monday night on c-span2. ♪ >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. artifacts american takes to to museums and historic places to learn about american history. tutor place was the home of thomas peter and his wife martha parke custis peter, granddaughter of martha washington. six generations of the peter family lived in the house until 1984. we take a