next we visit the baseball americana exhibit at the library of congress and washington, dc to learn aboutaseball's origins and early days. library ofto the congress. i am susan rayburn, curator of the u.s. exhibition baseball americana. this was a major collaboration. we have got some incredible things on display, things you have probably never seen before. let's start with some of the earliest. so right now we are standing in the front of the exhibit, looking at origins and early days, where we have got some artifacts that suggest baseball has a history that is much longer than the 19th century. in fact we have got an example from a medieval manuscript, -- these are little miniature figures that were part of a border of a book produced in 1334. we have a monk and a nun with a ball and a bat and some monks and nuns in what would have been a primitive outfield. this shows you bat and ball games for centuries before europeans began calling different kinds of games baseball. our next stop here is this cute book. i absolutely adore it. it is one of my favorites items in our collections. it is

. >> welcome to the library of congress. i am curator of the u.s. exhibition baseball americana. this was a collaboration that the library did with major league baseball, espn and the baseball hall of fame cooperstown. we've got some incredible things on display, things you probably have never seen before. let's start with some of the earliest. we are standing in the front of the exhibit, looking at origins and early days, where we have some artifacts that suggest baseball has a history that is much longer than the 19th century. in fact we have an example from a medieval manuscript, these were figures that were part of a border of a book produced. a couple of monks and nuns in what one would -- what would be a primitive outfield. they would be played for centuries before europeans call different kinds of games baseball. our next stop here is this cute little book, i absolutely adore. it's a pretty pocketbook from 1787, and it includes here a little woodcut drawing of children playing baseball with three posts. the word "baseball" is printed there. the lexicon is showing up in the

>>> welcome to the library of congress, i am the curator of baseball americana. this is a collaboration with major league baseball, espn, and the hall of fame of cooperstown. we have incredible things on display, probably things you have never seen before. baseball has a history that is much longer than the 19th century. in fact, we have an example here of medieval figures you have a ball and a bat and a couple primitive out fields. what this shows you is ballgames are being played for centuries i adore the items in our collection, it is a pretty pocketbook from 1887 and it includes here a cut and dry baseball is printed there this is first produced in 1744 in britain and it's not until it comes to the united states when it first shows up in print in america. as a parallel item to that, we have a diary from student diary from 1786, this will later become princeton university we cannot catch or hit, he is not a great player. the following year, the college faculty will ban baseball as being unbecoming of a gentleman. this is the earliest written reference we have.

this is the library of congress, which holds one of the world largest collections of reference bookse service of our lawmakers. to the north is the senate office building where senators have suites of offices for assistants.nd their let's walk down the quarters. senators from oklahoma, maine, ohio. here is the senator himself. his daily work typifies that of all lawmakers. half of his average day is spent reading and answering letters from constituents. this is as it should be, for these constituents are his neighbors and the voters whose support made him a senator. this pile of 10,000 letters was received in two weeks. many constituents come to call in person to seek jobs, ask favors, and make proposals. letters or people must begin a personal attention. many must have individual answers, and those who call in person must be received, their problems discussed, and answered. national lawmakers must be sensitive to the constantly shifting opinions and criticisms of the public, as expressed over the radio -- >> spending is a favorite occupation of the administration. a million here, a

and much of the research was done at library of congress, which is sponsoring today's event. it is a wonderful institution. the beautiful buildings, they are such important research materials there, and it is all available free. these public access libraries are really one of the things that make our nation great. [applause] kirstin: and i am very grateful to the library of congress for being here and for continuing to give us such wonderful material. now, this is a self-selecting crowd. i know some of you already know who frances perkins is, but a lot of people don't. so let's start by asking this question. how many of you know who frances perkins is? yes. this is great. good, good. how many of you know someone on social security? please raise your hand. how many of you know someone who is receiving unemployment insurance or who has ever received unemployment compensation? okay, frances perkins worked .- work how many people do you know who was working a 40-week? frances perkins' work. how many of you know a 12-year-old who has quit going to school so that she can work full-t

on cspan-3, from the american artifact series, tour of the baseball americana exhibit at the library of congress, susan rayburn shows us the earliest mentions of baseball and books and diaries from just after the american revolution. recently discovered pre-civil war documents known as basalt magna carta containing the basic rules and organization of the game that's played to this day friday night at eight eastern on cspan-3 . >> stephen more on american dive bombers this 50 minute talk is a symposium hosted by the national world war ii museum in new orleans. >>> welcome back everyone . >> we been an apartheid arrangement kind of year with the land fighting on guadalcanal and two fantastic presentations but now we will rise up into the air with expert guidance ep

here's the library of congress, only a few of those relate to baseball so be sure to come by if you are in washington and see what america's library has for you. history. american artifacts, real america, the civil war, oral histories, the presidency, and special event coverage about our nation's history. enjoy american history tv. now and every weekend on cspan 3. for 3 tuesday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on cspan. talking about cspan's new book, the president's. noted historians rank america's best and worst chief executives. and saturday at 2:30:00 p.m. eastern, book tv has live coverage with historians talking about the presidents, noted historians rank america's best and worst chief executives. presidential leadership tuesday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on cspan for mt. vernon and saturday at 2:30 on cspan 2 from the museum. . >>> cspan stopped in independence missouri for a tour of the harry s human presidential library. but first a news reel from the opening of the library in 1957. . >> in independence, missouri, the harry s truman library becomes a reality. a noted amateur historian, a

thomas edison's early videos actually is of the easter egg roll and it's available from the library of congress and it is online. i would encourage everybody. >> you must have had a lot of fun looking at pictures and videos over the years. where did you do your research? >> the library of congress, the national archives come to good -- national archives, the good folks of the national park service and white historical association. also online newspapers are , wonderful, especially for something like the easter egg roll. it is very easy to find the news coverage. and there always was news coverage. >> do you know the earliest photographs were? >> the earliest would be from around the 1870's and they show children of all ages in period attire. it looks more like sunday fineries than what we would expect current children to be wearing. begich gowns, suits and ties sometimes three-piece suits and , ties. >> on little children. >> little children. >> everybody was very formal going to the white house. >> yes, but only in their attire. it was a big deal but it was also a time to have fun. like i said

next we visit the baseball americana exhibit at the library of congress and washington, dc to learn aboutaseball's origins and early days. library ofto the congress. i am susan rayburn, curator of the u.s. exhibition baseball americana. this was a major collaboration. we have got some incredible things on

jonathan: the library of congress, the national archives , the good folks of the national park service and white historical association. although online newspapers are wonderful source of information, especially for something like the easter egg roll. it is very easy to find the news coverage. and there always was news coverage. >> do you know the earliest photographs were? jonathan: the earliest would be from around the 1870's and they show children of all ages in period attire. it looks more like sunday refineries than what we would expect current children to be wearing. victim, suits and ties. >> on little children. jonathan: little children. >> everybody was very formal going to the white house. jonathan: yes, but only in their attire. it was a big deal but it was also a time to have fun. like i said, kids were rolling down hills in the cleveland administration in addition to the easter egg roll and the races. there was egg croquet, egg baseball, and all manner of mass -- mess was happening on the grounds and when the president invited the kids in the east room to shake their hands

and susan gal who is with theli ce brought the library of congress to get the museum studies and theaterids involved in a project to go and visit the library of cangress get their library card and do research on the region and then create their own content and so they are going to be theater students creating a prect called t guller journey which i'm directing and then the museum stu who are now interns on our production so they w get tok do all of that work and it is a big part of a partnership we're proud of. >> and that you've oiously going to -- you are more excited about because of your ties toe school. >> absolutely. >> so we understand that after each performance the audienced s invi stay and discuss the play. what kind of discussions do you expect to come out of this? >> well,e with alliance for new museum theater the audience is encouraged to give their opinion and talk back -- we call it a tack back to the actorsuend askions of the characters that we wouldn't get to answer because we're on stage and we're saying our lines and we're restricted but with the audience talki talking

tv on c-span 3, american artifacts series, a tour of the baseball americana exhibit at the library of congress. curator, susan raburn, shows us the earliest mentions of baseball in books and diaries from just after the american revolution. also, recently discovered pre- civil war documents, known as baseball's magna carta, containing the basic rules and organization of the game that is played to the state. that is friday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span 3. >> i think the legacy of rochester is really ongoing. the more rochester embraces its role as the city of compassion, healing, wellness, hospitality, i think our mission really is to make people feel welcome. that this is a home away from home. >> c-span city store is on the road, exploring the american strike. this weekend, we take you to rochester, minnesota. with the help of our spectrum cable partners. located 90 minutes south of minneapolis, rochester has been the home of the mayo clinic since its founding in 1864. >> mayo clinic is a good neighbor here in rochester. mayo clinic helps rochester achieve international recognition. in many

and, a one-of-a-ki slave memoir, now made public by the library of congress. rst, a young journalist was shot and kled during a riot in northern ireland last week. her murder-- and the rt she s covering-- happened on the 21st anniversary of the goodme friday agr, the landmark peace deal that put an end to northern ireland's decades-long sectrian conflict. but as william brangham reports, this killing has raised fears f that conflict ring up again. >> brangham: her name was lyra mckee. she was a 29-year-old acclaimed writer and journalist. the riot she was covering began when police raided a housing demplex in londonderry, looking for members of dis groups. a gunman stepped from behind a building and fired at the officers.bu mckee, who was standing next to them, was hit. the unrest echoes the decas- long, brutal sectarian conflict knowas "the troubles" which took some 3,500 lives, from theo 1960s h the late 1990s. a group, called the new irish t republican armk responsibility for mckee's killing, and apologiaying she was shot by mistake. the new i.r.a. is a smal

about a sixth of the entire library of congress. just a few years ago, we were ingesting annually about half of what the library of congress has annually. so for us to keep us with it, we're having to do things right now, like in las vegas, like in boston, where we had to take the digital evidence and fly it clear across country to quantico whereas if we could have more of the resources that we're asking for would enable us to be more forward deployed in terms of marshaling this information. an example. mr. cartwright: we just passed a bill with universal background checks with a list of sensible exceptions. would a universal background check requirement be helpful for law enforcement in preventing and/or solving violent crime involving firearms? director wray: well, certainly the more information we have the more effective we can be. there would be other considerations. i have to look closely at the legislation, which i have not done, to give you a more meaningful answer. mr. cartwright: i urge you to do that and we could work toget

uncle jim felt we better start with the library of congress. s the biggest and most important library in america, set up originally for senators and representatives, but open to all of the people. here are most of the important documents and records of the government, and copies of most newspapers and magazines published in the united states. but the one thing we wanted to see was in a glass case near the front of the building, the foundation of all of the powers and laws of our government. we couldn't have our form of government without it. it is the original constitution of the united states of america. it provides for a government with three main branches, each with special functions. uncle jim says this is how they work. >> the constitution provides that the law should be made by the legislative branch, carried out by the executive branch, and interpreted by a third branch of the government, the judicial branch, to make certain no law violates the constitution. legislative, executive, judicial. these are the three main branches of our federa

i have read recently that his archive in the library of congress is the largest judicial archive in terms of its sheer volume. except for that of justice douglas, who served a longer time than justice blackmun. he was a man he was meticulous. he kept everything. he kept good records, very careful about the way he wrote things. when you readnk his opinions. the case was argued the term prior to its release. it was one of those rare cases apparently for the supreme court , after hearing the original argument, decided at the end of their term, and the terms and in year,y june or may of the if a case is not decided, sometimes it's carried over to the next term of court and re-argued. that's what happened in roe v. wade ring that summer. blackmun came back to rochester to visit, and spent some time in the library of the mayo clinic on issues that interested him, and he perhaps may have talked to folks in the community who were physicians who had some knowledge of these things. i don't know if blackmun was ever considered to be a person with a lot of medical knowledge, but working for the clini

the curator of the abraham lincoln papers at the library of congress. a president of the united states traveled by train from washington dc to gettysburg to visit the battlefield and dedicate hallowed ground. speaking before an audience that included veterans, the president addressed the challenges the nation then faced and the need to preserve a government of the people. >>> if everyone could take their seats. >> so we can keep on schedule while everyone is winding their way back to their seats welcome back. i am the chairperson of the board of the abraham lincoln institute and the curator of the abraham lincoln papers of the library of congress. a president of the united states traveled by train from washington dc to gettysburg pennsylvania to visit the battlefield and dedicate hollow ground. speaking before an audience that included veterans of the great battle the president addressed the challenges the nation had faced and the need to preserve a government of the people. the year was 1938 1863. they veterans were 75 years older and the president was

last night at the library of congress, there was an auditorium packed full of local college studentslk about lgbt equality. >> so i think our ggest, biggest ally is visibility and making sure th we're setting a great example and making sure we're out there and we're proud and we're showing everyone oer we are just like everyone else and we deserve the same rights that they do. >> we go in there and we show them how amazing they are and what we belie already see. it works with business and with individuals. that's the power that we have, to show people how amazing they really truly. >> a lot of life changing transformations happen every episode on "queer eye". they are not setting their sights on any capitol hill make joef overs. >> there are so many issue facing our country. i would rather them help save our cntry from the things we're going through. >> last night they were running something we all know pretty well around here. cherry blossoms traffic. >> is that what that was?s >> thahy we were an hour late. >> that explains so much. >> quite honestly, i was so grateful becauset gav

tv on c-span 3, american artifacts series, a tour of the baseball americana exhibit at the library of congress. curator susan rayburn shows us the earliest mentions of baseball and books and diaries from just after the american revolution. also, recently discovered pre- civil war documents known as baseball's magna carta. containing the basic rules and organizations of the game that is played to the state. that is friday night at 8:00 easter here on c-span 3. >>> now on c-span 3 is american history tv. author trent hoan on u.s. naval strategies and naval tactics developed during the six month battle in guadalcanal in 1942 and 43. and how they helped the u.s. defeat japan. >> let me call back into session our symposium on guadalcanal. brought you under the auspices of the museum's institute for the study of war and democracy. our next speaker, i am very, very pleased to introduce to you, trent hone is one of the leading authorities in the country on u.s. navy tactics and auction. he is the winner of awards from the u.s. naval war college. and the naval history and heritage command. his latest b

we caught up with them at the library of congress. found out they had a little trouble getting to that event. >> you gentlemen something we know and love. and cherry blossom traffic. >> is that what that was? that explains so much. >> it gave us a chance to check them out. it's gorgeous. >> the pointy thing. >> yeah. i don't know what it's hecall. >> washington monument. >> the evening had a serious tone. four of the fab five discussed ssues of visibility and equality. the packed auditorium of youth. fr localcolleges. >> the guys will be in d.c. all day tomorrow. chronicling adventures. and we'll have more conversation with them tomorrow on news 4 at 4:00. >> when we come back, a little girls mysterious illness is baffling some of the brightest minds in medicine. >> i ran to get her dad. to let her know that something is wrong. she'svi not . >> doctors tried therapy. and surgery. now a new theory is emerging. >> it was beautiful today. high of 72. not quite as nice tomorr. and friday, kind of nasty. see you in a minute. >>> now to a c

survivingar abic-language memoir from a muslin slave in the u.s., newly preserved and made pub the library of congressis literacy and culture comp .arrative that slaves were not capable of cultu in fact, they were persons with

set this up perfectly, if you want to read the handwritten manuscript of grant's memoirs the library of congress has it, and we have put the grant papers online. so you can go and for yourself read all of what we have of grant's memoirs in his handwriting, and you can actually see the clear handwriting in the beginning, and see when he is having a bad day, because the handwriting will change drastically. >> and what is the website to get to that? >> well, you can go on www.loc.gov and search digital collections. you will get right to it. or if you want to talk to me afterwards, i can help you to a finding aid, bun of the memoirs that i have seen is always regretted the last assault at cole harbor. >> and so this is the lady who knows. if anybody knows that collection at the library of congress, she is the one. >> a question as well? >> one more comment and then i do have a question. we also have julia's memoirs. >> ooh, yes. >> they were not published until the 1970s and not in her handwriting, but mostly in her clerk's or the secretaries, and so we have grant and julia's memoirs there, and what

a pamphlet copy in the library of congress has marks made by the president's candle during his nighttime reading. will.ld quote passages at on the final afternoon of his life, he delayed dinner by reading him aloud to two old friends from illinois. the genius to write these things, i would gladly give up my office. locke'ssure he took in prejudicechel -- speaks volumes about lincoln's on humor. he admired the ethical force of locke's satire. a close associate said the president read him as much as he did the bible. wordplay and delight in the plasticity and surprises of irony,e, quick wit, logical fallacy and notoriously dirty jokes and stories. b -- satiricals .umor as my title indicates, i shall focus on the utility of the consumer. and the political danger that comes with being known as a humorist, particularly as a leader in the time of war. he derived more advantage from the pursuit of laughter and that his humor was an essential element in his statesmanship and his skill in public affairs. we should recognize that lincoln deployed humor as an act of leverett self conscience therapy

the curator of the abraham lincoln papers at the library of congress. a president of the united states traveled by train from washington dc to gettysburg to visit the battlefield and dedicate hallowed ground. speaking before an audience that included veterans, the president addressed the challenges the nation then faced and the need to preserve a government of the people. 1938 not 1863. the veterans were 75 years older. the president was fdr not abraham lincoln. the new york herald tribune reprinted that the speech under the headline roosevelt's gettysburg address. the chicago tribune proclaimed roosevelt anza lincoln armor. is -- it's seldom helps to wonder how a statement of one generation would surmount the crisis of another. a statesman deals with difficulties with things that must be done from day to day. not often can he frame conchas patterns for the far-off future fdr acknowledged in his remarks. the stature of lincoln's nature and the usdamental conflict invite to turn to him for help. it is such invocations of the civil war past and a new deal

which is called imagination library they donated it's one hundred nothing in the book to the library of congress so she started this charity back in one thousand nine hundred six as a tribute to her father is very hard working a lot if you know anything about her back story. he never learned to read or write he didn't get to go to school couldn't because that where it was and what she said it's so important to me because if you can teach children to read they can dream and if you can dream you can be a success and you can see that in the numbers and there are so obviously if not reading and not being able to read and write puts you in this in this case and being able to is this gifted and one of the things that she said that's why it's so important in julie is because you would like i mean we both know what we couldn't do the jobs we do if we couldn't read your sleep you can't do anything you can't drive a car if you can't read science it's also a medical issue there are health issues if you can't read a label on a medicine if you can't read instructions if you can't communicate it's it's a prob

that the library of congress catalog had 76 pages, 748 sources of information about women in the war. wow, where did all this information come from? there has never been a time in the history of the world the new york times was bombastic even then, when women's efforts have received so much attention, so much documentation, and so much praise. this is going to be deceptive, as we will discover. this is what i call the swing of the pendulum. following the 1930s, women had been discouraged from entering the workplace, very forcefully, even though women had always been in the workplace. we discover our mentioned before and many sources of any of you are interested, nyu has an entire thing on was in the riveter. as i will show you later, the redstone army has this wonderful ordinance, women's ordinance, the various branches of the military each have different websites, which have this material, and much of this material is copyright free, so you can look at it and use it, next slide, please. so here's where we go from an interesting shift. 1st i want to start by saying, women have always

of our nation's book mobiles and dedicated professionals who make outreach possible and books accessible in our rural communities. mr. speaker, from the largest library in the world, the library of congress, to the smallest local libraries around, i hope americans will support their local libraries this week with a visit. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. green, for five minutes. mr. reen: thank you, speaker. mr. speaker, and still i rise. and i rise because i love my country. i rise today on a mission of mercy. i'm on a mission of mercy for people that i will likely never meet and greet. perhaps by some fortuitous circumstance i may encounter some of them, but i know not who they are currently in the sense i know them personally. i rise on behalf of the many people who are seeking asylum, and i do so, mr. speaker, on use it has been reported many news stations, outlets, if you will, that our president intends to reinstate the family separation policy. i rise on a mission of mercy, and i make an appeal to the most powerful man on the planet earth. y appeal is that you would not , n-o-t,

the library of congress designated it as one of the best 50 recorded. lyrics reflects a combination of antiwar sentiment and racial injustice. now, for our last movie, "good morning, vietnam." >> good morning, vietnam! this is not a test. this is rock 'n' roll. time to rock from the delta to the dmv. does that sound like an elvis presley movie? [indiscernible] is it a little early for being that loud? it is early. speaking of early, thank you marty for the silky smooth sounds. ♪ prof. white: this film, good morning vietnam, is perhaps the lightest theme of the movies we have seen during the course. the film was released with a budget of $13 million and box office receipts of $124 million. the plot is about a dj, landing in vietnam from the island of crete to served in the armed forces radio. this is the fact. the rest of the film is pure hollywood. he died in july of this year. he was really a conservative guy. in the movie, robin williams depicts him as a funny, un-soldier like character. good morning vietnam portrays a guy who meets a vietnamese girl,

when i presented to them the fact that i had gone through jackie's personal writings at the library of congress an unpublished miniskirt had said that the power of prayer and his faith in god talk to him by his mother at an early educate from a broken home is what got him through and pulled him up by his bootstraps. it made it very clear to me there was something more than just the white general manager, branch rickey picking the black player, jackie robinson. ricky was also someone with a strong christian faith from his own mother growing up in ohio and jackie goes up in california so white man, but man, ohio, california, young, old these two are different generations, different races but they both had he deep shared faith in god. i think that was the secret ingredient not just about baseball and civil rights but all important but it was their joint deep faith in god they got them through it. in the documentary we explain it point by point and it's awe-inspiring. abby: you are right. such a special angle to the story because jackie robinson is a story that will stand the test of time so what w

the pamphlet copy and the library of congress, has sinned marks made by the president handle, for his nighttime reading. he could quote passages at will, and on the final afternoon of his life, lincoln delayed dinner by reading mays be allowed to to old friends from illinois. while, for the genius to write these things, lincoln told the author, i would gladly give up my office. the pleasure he took in locks savage assault on racial prejudice, and anti- emancipation sentiment speaks volumes about the moral strengths of lincoln's own humor. he admired the great ethical force of lock locks satire. -- close associates maintain that the president read mays be as much as he did the bible. lincoln relished pretty well every form of the comic, foretells, and absurdity, wordplay, and delight in the spasticity, and the ambiguity, and the surprises of language, quick wit, irony, logical fallacy, and notoriously, dirty jokes and stories. but, his love of mays be, tells us that his chief pleasure was satirical humor, that elicited righteous mirth, just laughter, and --, grading, to deliver a moral

last night the group spoke at the library of congress to a packed auditorium full of students to explain why the legislation is needed. >>> next at 6:00 a.m., a killer on the run. hotwo men foundt to death at a hallway in dth. search for answers is underway. >>> it's a year's long living situationhanks to a legal loophole. now it looks like the man behind wikileaks could be throw out of his adopted home and could end up in the u.s. facing charges. we'll explain. >>> breaking news is happening i i-295 the districtment a deadly crash has shut down the southbound lanes near howard road. >> five people involved, some of whom were pulled out of a burning car. one person died. dfour others ruso the hospital. >> the southbound lanes are still closed this hour. it's not car exactly when they might reopen. >> we've been tracking all the developments since the crash first reported just a few hours ago. news4's justin finch joins us ve from the scene with the latest. justin, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we can tell you in just the past few minutes we've seen the coroner van moving to th

about some background and pictures of what women did. 1942, the new york times reports the library of congress catalog had 76 pages, 748 sources of information about women in the war. wow. where did this information come from? there has never been a time in the history of the world when women's efforts have received so much attention, so much documentation, and so much praise. this is going to be a little deceptive, as we will discover. this is what i call the swing of the pendulum. following the 1930's, they had been discouraged from entering the workplace, even though women had always been in the workplace. many sources, if you are has an entireu thing on rosie the riveter. the various branches of the military each have different websites which have this material. much of this material is copyright free. you can look at it and use it. next slide, please. here is where we go for interesting shift. i want to start by saying, women have always worked. they work before the industrial revolution. they worked in what is called the domestic economy. you are not taking care of a home and a family an

cspan-3, from our american artifacts series, tour of the baseball americana exhibit with the library of congress, susan rayburn shows us the earliest mentions of baseball and books and diaries from after the american revolution. also recently discovered pre- civil war documents known as baseballs magna carta meaning the basic rules and organizations of the game played to the friday eddie eastern on cspan-3 >>> i think the legacy of rochester's ongoing. rochester races it that is the role of compassion, healing, wellness, hospitality, the mission is really to make people feel welcome that this is a home away from home . >> cspan-2 city tour is on the road ask during the american story. this weekend we take you to rochester minnesota with the help of spectrum cable partners located 90 minutes south of minneapolis to rochester has been the home of the mayo clinic since its founding in 1864 . >>> the mayo clinic is a good neighbor in rochester and they helped rochester achieve international recognition. in many respects, the mayo clinic would never have happened except for the city of rochester it w

more from our american artifacts series with a tour of the baseball americana exhibit at the library of congress. a curator will show as earliest mentions of baseball in books and diaries from after the american revolution, and rediscovered pre-civil war documents known as baseball's magna carta, containing the basic rules and organization of the game. that's tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span three. simply threes giant networks and a government supported service called pbs. then in 1979, a small network with an unusual name rolled out a big idea. let viewers decide, on their own, what was important to them. c-span opened the door to washington policymaking for all to see. bringing unfiltered content from gong -- from congress and beyond. this was people power. the landscape has changed, and monolithic media has given away to narrowcasting, youtube stars are a thing, but c-span's big idea is more relevant today than ever. no government money support c-span, the nonpartisan coverage in washington is

tv on c-span 3, american artifacts series, a tour of the baseball americana exhibit at the library of congress. curator susan rayburn shows us the earliest mentions of baseball and books and diaries from just after the american revolution. also, recently discovered pre- civil war documents known as baseball's magna carta. containing the basic rules and organizations of the game that is played to the state. that is friday night at 8:00 easter here on c-span 3. >>> now on c-span 3 is american history tv. author trent hoan on u.s. naval strategies and naval tactics developed during the six month battle in guadalcanal in 1942 and 43. and how they helped the u.s.

his first film, the iconic "boys in the hood" not only made history, it is in the library of congressi turned on my tv this morning. it had [ bleep ] on about, about living in a violent, a violent world. showed all these foreign places. foreign e foreigners living in them. i started thinking, man, either they don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's going on in the hood. >> kelly carter is a senior entertainment writer for espn's undefeated. she's with me now. kelly, thank you so much for joining me. and let's just defy right in, because john singleton influenced not just the genera of film, he was this cultural game changer. so tell me what are john singleton story. how did he and his films impact you? >> oh, man, his films impacted me in a lot of really big ways. i think that what he was able to do at his best was take something very insular and highlight neighborhoods that reporters, journalists weren't able to quite penetrate and tell stories of. and i think probably the best example of that would, of course, be "boys in the hood." he kind of took this journalistic lens