the americans [indiscernible] explore our nations passed on american history tv, every weekend, on c-span3. announcer: the c-span cities tour is exploring the american story. join us the first and third weekends of each month as we take book tv and american history tv on the road and to watch videos from all of the cities we visited -- road. to go to all of the -- to watch all of the videos from the cities we visited, go to c-span.org/citiestour. we now take you to the laramie plains museum which beatles -- features a special exhibit on wyoming women's suffrage. >> we are in the women's hallway of the laramie plains museum and islands and mansion. we begin to tell you the story of why wyoming was so unique, granting women this right to vote, hold property, and elected office. 1869, our wyoming territorial legislature dictated this, and it was signed by governor campbell, granting women this act. so remarkable that we have a copy of this. they have it at the capitol, but we have this copy that is so extraordinary. you can see the writing that said what was happening in the west. decemberf t

explore our nations passed on american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >> this weekend, american history tv is joining our spectrum cable partners showcasing the history of laramie, wyoming. to watch more, visit c-span.org /citiestour. we continue now with our look at the history of laramie. >> we are in that mansion that edward ivinson. built and it is now the home of that laramie plains museum, and it has been restored because for about 10 years it was vacant and people broken and vandalized the building and it has been a very long and fruitful effort to make it into this wonderful museum that we have here that highlights not only the ivinson family but issues from the past in a laramie, wyoming as well. so edward was actually of all the places, was born down in the caribbean. he lived there for seven years. his father moved there from england to manage a sugarcane plantation and he wound up in new york city in about 1852. while he was there, he met a young woman. he is 23, she was 16. they ran away to get married and they, like a lot of young folks, moved west to make their fa

eastern on our weekly series american artifacts, this is american history tv, all weekend on c-span 3. >>> next, on american history tv, a discussion on african-american migration over the past century. panelists analyze the reasons black people have migrated and created their own communities across the u.s. this took place at the association for the study of manner life and history annual conference. >> good evening, everyone. >> good evening. >> all right. i think we got our technical difficulties are finished. and i'd like to welcome you all to the opening. i'd like to welcome you all to the opening 104th meeting and convention of the association. my name is lionel kimble. i'm the vice president of programs here for asala and it is my honor to bring together -- it is my honor

history in laramie also. noonin us this saturday at eastern on book tv and saturday at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv as the c-span cities tour looks at the history and literary life of -- laramie, wyoming. next, the senate foreign relations committee considers the nomination of john sullivan to the u.s. -- to be u.s. ambassador to russia. he currently serves as ticket terry -- deputy secretary of state. he was asked several questions about president trump's communication with the president of ukraine in july. and alleged efforts to have

it's our home this morning on the washington journal on c-span on american history tv on c-span3. we are taking your phone calls and getting your thoughts and memories from 30 years ago today, the fall of the berlin wall on november 9, 1989. phone lines to join us this morning, (202) 748-8000 if you live in the eastern or central time zones. (202) 748-8001 if you are in the mountain or pacific time zones. for) 748-8002 german-americans. that special line this morning. we have our phone line that we keep for text messages. (202) 748-8003. a few text messages come in so far this morning. i want to review a couple of them. rights,ew york city "when the wall came down we took the train from amsterdam to berlin. patrolled by east german soldiers with rifles. at the brandenburg gate, east germans came across to stand in the west which was all they could do with no money." "i cried with relief and joy in disbelief. i thought it would never come down. i'm a minister woman. the desire for -- i am a midwestern woman. the desire for freedom is a powerful force." " i was 10 years old. my teac

on toxic masculinity on book tv. >> saturday 8 p.m. eastern on american history tv on lectures in history. gettysburg college professor timothy shan on on colonial era diplomacy. >> they had to get together and conduct diplomacy with native american peoples. and the customs and language and metaphors that govern that were not european in origin, they were native american in origin. >> on real america, at 10:00, the film "distant drummer" bridge from no place narcotics and marijuana problem and to treat it. >> narcotics and amphetamines, barbituates at every social and economic level, and tragic aftermath fills hospitals and prisons and rehabilitation facilities across the conduct. caroline frazier about life and work of the "little house on the prairie" author laura i think ingals wilder. >> when mary almost died, laura was forced into this role she had never condemn plated for herself which was to become a teacher. >> at 8:00 on the presidency, we continue our look at the work of pulitzer prize winning cartoonist with cartoons from presidents bush to obama, and who acquired his collection.

history. to watch more video and other stops on the tour, visit c-span.org/cities tour. you are watching american history tv. a weekend every weekend on c-span3. american history tv is looking back 40 years to november 1979 when iranian students seized the u.s. embassy and took 66 americans hostage. next, former a u.s. foreign service officer john limbert talks about his time as a hostage in iran, including a memorable visit from an iranian clergyman. this interview is from the association for studies and training oral history collection. >> i am john limbert. i was in the foreign service for years, served mostly in the middle east or africa. during that time, i didn't see a lot of what you would call successes. there were not a lot of saving the world, stopping a coup, averting a humanitarian disaster , the kind of thing you might see madam secretary accomplish in her half-hour series. i was never really in that kind of position. perhaps the opposite, trouble seemed to follow me wherever i went. i saw a lot of military mutinies, and i served in iraq, served in sudan. none of which places you would call a t

eastern, here on american history tv. ton and william weld conserves as lawyers on the staff of the house judiciary committee during the impeachment inquiry of president richard nixon in 1973 and 1974. american history tv will feature their interviews about their experience next sunday, december 1, at 6:00 p.m. eastern. conducted by former nixon presidential library director timothy, they're from the library's oral history collection, a behind-the-scenes perspective on the house jewish ar committee's work during the nixon impeachment inquiry. that's next sunday at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on american history tv, only on c-span3. >> the media marketplace has shifted dramatically in the last dozen years or so, and we've failed to keep pace. we have these rules in place that basically assume the entire media marketplace is three broadcast television stations at night and a daily newspaper that chunks on your front doorstep in the morning, as we're just talking. it is a vastly different market. 9 f.c.c. commissioner brendan carr

here on american history tv. a, the , on "washington post" bureau chief, am ma la constable talks about her experiences covering the region. >> sometimes will say things of the very critical of ed states or, you know, the west. that is more common than somebody saying something ffensively about being a woman or causing problems. people tend to be generally thinking, very broadly now, more helpful to a woman than to a man. try to take advantage of you in various generally, my experience has been that if they are not going to like something you, or are going to mistrust something about you, it's not going to be because a woman. it will be because you're an american. >> watch tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on >> the western history association hosts a panel called does the west matter. five scholars ponder the definition of the american west. directly, culturally and politically. they discussed the broader role of regions in understanding the past and present of the united states. 2019 annualt of the meeting. >> good a

that program begins now on american history tv on c-span3. for ouroing to do it program and we will be back tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. eastern. have a great saturday. ♪ >> watch the c-span networks live next week as they house intelligence committee holds the first public impeachment hearings. the committee will hear from three state department officials starting wednesday at 10 eastern on c-span three. and deputy assistant secretary of state george kent will testify. former u.s. ambassador to ukraine will appear before the committee. read witness testimony from the transcripts. >> coming up today, a house homeland security hearing in mississippi to examine the impact of recent immigration across the state. a look at combating extremism and domestic terrorism. google senior vice president discusses the intersection between artificial intelligence and national security. up next, the homeland security hearing in mississippi. we are just about to start our hearing. natalie needs to make announcements.

eastern here on american history tv. al primary is probably one of the worst reforms we could implement. i would, if we were doing it in a rational way, have a regional primary. so that we basically indifferent elections have different sort of groups of states go together which would allow kind of focused retail campaigning. >> learn about the presidential nominating process tonight on q&a. thea brown, director of political management school at george washington university, discusses how we nominate presidential candidates and what reforms to the process may be in the offing. watch tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. >> hillary rodham clinton and lawyerswells served as on the staff of the house judiciary committee during the impeachment inquiry of president nexen in -- i president nixon. feature history tv will their interviews about their experience at the sunday, december 1, at 6 p.m. eastern. conducted by former nixon presidential library director timothy -- they are from the libraries oral history collection. a

here on american history tv. next, winston lord talks about the nixon administration's foreign policy approach. on diplomacy, grand strategy and your ship. he describes president nixon's relationship with his secretary of state and how it was instrumental in developing foreign policy strategies. the nixon administration foundation hosted this event. evening, ladies and gentlemen. i am with the richard nixon foundation. welcome to the presidential library.

american history writers of the past decade talking about their books. you can watch our weekly series every saturday at 4:00 eastern on american history tv on c-span3. this weekend on lectures in history, johnson county community college professor teaches a class on the expansion of the united states during the spanish-american war and the acquisition of hawaii. here is a preview. 1890, there was a tariff on hawaiian sugar. this is bad for hawaiian sugar. what you see as the disruption to their economy? americans with u.s. military support from pearl harbor overthrew the hawaiian government and the president at the time, president harrison, supported adding hawaii as a territory. congress does not get it done before he leaves office. next president opposes it. hawaiians oppose it. they opposed a place fully -- peacefully. they knew if that used violence to prevent an american invasion, if an american invasion took place, they would be deemed enemies and would not be allowed to keep their property. not only would people die, but their property would be undermined. they do not violently resist. in 1898, mckinley will support and congress will annex haw

on america." oneel american history tv. here is a look at one of our recent programs. ♪ >> a few days before tragic death comes to president john f. kennedy, he and the first lady are the picture of happiness. their children, john junior and caroline, are to mark their birthdays after the president returns from a trip to texas. arriving in dallas on the morning of the fatal day, he and mrs. kennedy are greeted by vice president johnson and the mayor of dallas. john f. kennedy has been president for two years, 10 months, two days. they ride in the familiar presidential limousine, because the weather has turned fair, the transparent bubble top has been removed. on the fifth floor window, at 12:30 p.m., come the rifle shots that bring death to president kennedy and seriously wound governor commonly of texas. 20 nine minutes later, the 45th president of the united states lies dead in a nearby hospital. the presidential limousine bears the marks of violent death. the flowers mrs. kennedy carried from the airport are twisted and t

american history tv. next, on american history tv, university of new hampshire professor eliga gould delivers an address called "making peace in britain, ireland, and america 1778 to 1783. the efforts of several these commissions to end the revolutionary war and the events leading up to the 1783 treaty of paris. this talk was part of a three day conference cohosted i the museum of the american and the richard savon has foundation. >> good evening, all, and museum.to the this is third and chestnut street in philadelphia, just two blocks from independence hall. you are in the headquarters of the american revolution, some of the oldest founding era documents, surviving objects and buildings within a couple blocks of where we are sitting, but the building you are in, we are one of the newest cultural institutions. the museum of the american revolution opened on april 19, 2017. i know this crowd knows the significance of april 19. the museum, in the last two years, we welcomed more than 800,000 visitors from around the

more about the ties between the native american confederacy and european settlers tonight at 8:00 on lectures in history. joined the classroom here on american history tvnext, on american history tv, university of new hampshire professor eliga gould delivers an address called "making peace in britain, ireland, and america 1778 to 1783. the efforts of several these commissions to end the revolutionary war and the events leading up to the 1783 treaty of paris. this talk was part of a three day conference cohosted i the museum of the american and the richard savon has foundation. >> good evening, all, and museum.to the this is third and chestnut street in philadelphia, just two blocks from independence hall. you are in the headquarters of the american revolution, some of e

history. to watch more video from laramie and other stops on our tour, visit c-span.org/citiestour. you're watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. each week, american artefacts takes viewers into archives, museums, and historic sites around the country. up next, we visit the up next, we visit the international spy museum to tour their exhibit on cold war berlin. our guide is lead curator alexis albion who explains how the city came to be divided after world war ii and shows us artifacts used by the east germans to spy on visitors and control their own citizens. alexis: hello. -- i'm lou alexis albion dr. alexis albion and am a curator historian at the international spy museum. we have the largest collection of espionage and intelligence related artifacts in the world. today, we will be looking at cold war berlin. after world war ii ended, germany was divided. between the victors. that's the united states, france, united kingdom and the soviet union. soviet union occupied the east and the other three countries, the west. and that included the capital city of berlin which was also divided int

on tv, radio app and on live. watch prime time re-airs on c-span or screen any time on demand at c-span.org/impeachment. >> saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on lectures in history. gettysburg college professor timothy shannon on colonial era diplomacy. >> they had to get together and conduct diplomacy with native american peoples and the customs and language and metaphors that governed that diplomacy were not european in origin. they were native american in origin. >> and at 10:00 on reel america, the 1969 fill am, the distant drummer, on the narcotics and marijuana problem and the efforts to study and treat it. >> narcotics and their relatives, amphetamines and barbiturates rip apart the family life at every social and economic level. a tragic aftermath fills hospitals, prisons and rehabilitation centers across the country. >> pulitzer prize winner for biography, caroline frazier on the life and work on the little house on the prairie author laura ingalls wilder. >> when mary fell ill and nooeay died and became blind, laura was forced into this role that she had never contemplated for herself which was to become a teacher. >> and at 8

history. to watch more video from charleston and other stops on our tour, visit c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span three. dissenting at the supreme court is a lecture series hosted by the supreme court historical society. next on american history tv, university of arkansas law eck issor mark killenb introduced by supreme court justice stephen pryor, then discusses dissenting opinions written between 1810 and 1927. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. serve as president of the supreme court historical society. i am pleased to welcome you to the first lecture in this year's silverman series. this year, we are examining ,issents, not majority opinions different aspects thereof. you have already been warned about your cell phones and your apple watches and so forth

eastern on american history tv on lectures in history, gettysburg college professor timothy on colonial era diplomacy. andhey had to get together conduct diplomacy with native american peoples. the protocols and customs and language and metaphors that govern that diplomacy were not european in origin, they were native american in order to. -- in origin. announcer: and, the 1969 film the distant drummer on the narcotics and marijuana problem in the efforts to study and treated. barbiturates,ans, they were in every social and economic level. prisons,als, rehabilitation centers across the country. announcer: sunday at 6:00 p.m. fraser, theoline little house on the prairie -- on the little house on the prairie author. >> when she felt alien nearly ill andura was -- fell nearly dead, laura was going through this role that she had never contemplated for yourself, which was to become a teacher. announcer: at 8:00 on the presidency, we continue our work on cartoonist at all of and with cartoons of president bush to obama from the university of virginia, which has just acquired his cartoon colle

one who spoke farsi try to go out and save a life. he was immediately blindfolded and bound. the americans [indiscernible] explore our nations passed on american history tvd, on c-span3. announcer: the c-span cities tour is exploring the american story. join us the first and third weekends of each month as we take book tv and american history tv on the road and to watch videos from all of the cities we visited -- road. to go to all of the -- to watch all of the videos from the cities we visited, go to c-span.org/citiestour. we now take you to the laramie plains museum which beatles -- features a special exhibit on wyoming women's suffrage. >> we are in the women's hallway of the laramie plains museum and islands and mansion. we begin to tell

eastern, only on american history tv here on c-span3. monday night on the communicators, the chair of u.s. telecoms board of directors and ceo of consolidated communications. >> where exactly is the fiber-optic cable? >> it is everywhere. in the ground, in the air, in the communities we serve. i mentioned the 23 states. it is typically outside the urban markets. the largest towns that we are in the downtown area are places like portland, maine, or roseville, california. give sony a, pennsylvania. these are the places where we have fiber networks in every street and extensions of those facilities in every neighborhood, on the polls and connected directly to the customer. >> watch monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. >> you can watch archival films on public affairs each week on ," oneries "reel america american history tv. here is a quick look at a recent program. ♪ then the spring of 1876, word of war traveled like the north wind among the villages of the sioux, hardening the results of the chiefs. there was no rotor left to honor

eastern, here on american history tv, only on c-span3. american: announcer: history tv products are now available at the new c-span online store. go to c-span store.org to see what is new for american history tv, and check out all of the c-span products. announcer: you can watch archival films on public affairs each week on our series "reel america." saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv. here is a quick look at one of our recent programs. ♪ >> a few days before tragic death comes to president john f. kennedy, he and the first lady the picture of happiness. their children, john junior and caroline, are to mark their birthdays after the president returns from a trip to texas. arriving in dallas on the morning of the fatal day, he and misses kennedy are greeted by vice president johnson and the mayor of dallas. john f. kennedy has been president two years, 10 months, two days. ♪ they ride in the familiar presidential limousine. because the weather has turned fair, the transparent top has been removed.

americans through the context of diplomacy. tonight at 8 p.m. and midnight eastern on " lectures in history. join the classroom here on american history tv. on american history tv, from the western history association annual meeting, outgoing western history association president martha sandweiss gave an illustrated talk about how historians can use photographs, and the stories behind the photographs, to study and understand the american west. professor sandweiss has been studying and writing about photographs for forty years and argues that more historians should use photographic archives in their work. -- 12:30nute past 1230 p.m. happy task of introducing your president and sandweiss.arnie room andresent this tell the story of marnie and me work, which got us all here. let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. all of us led to headed thinkers scholarsto old intoned and teachers. the process works something like this. imagine a group of students as a cohort. the cohort becomes class meet. classmates. once in a while they become lifelong friends. , cohort,agues classmate, colleagues, and that golden thing, a friend. i am ch

next on "american history tv," historian alan mcpherson on his books of "ghosts of sheridan circle." he gives a talk at busboys and poets in washington. but first, we visit sheridan circle with the author to see where the crime took place and the memorial there for the two victims. >> so we are literally at the scene of the crime. this is a memorial that was put here by the institute for policy studies to memorialize the assassination of orlando letelier. at the same time, ronni moffitt, a u.s. citizen, was also killed in this car bomb. all of this happened here in sheridan circle in the heart of embassy row in washington, d.c. on that morning, september 21, 1976, orlando letelier was an employee of a think tank in washington called the institute for policy studies. he was driving his car to work. he lived in that direction in bethesda, maryland. he came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies. in the car with him were two colleagues from ips, ronni moffitt and her husband michael moffitt. they turned the corner over here and unbeknownst to them, followin

that is coming up on american history tv. >> april 19, 1967, surveyors landed on the moon in the ocean of storms. electronic eye, we look at the surface. with its mechanical arm, we dig a small shovel trench in the lunar soil. now,

one man and, of course, to ronni moffitt. sheridan circle will be marked forever in the heart of washington, d.c. by this assassination. >> american history tv is on social media. @cspan history. new weekend, johnson new and andrew cart offer insight into white house responses to major events. such as the collapse of the soviet union and 9/11. >> the most interesting thing to me was the process that that president undertook on all of his decisions. he was a president that listened , he was the president that i could discuss things with, sometimes not agreeing with him, but certainly someone who solicited your opinions, and tried to find all of the views before he firmed up and solidified his decision. for me, it was an experience that i call one of the most fun i ever had in my whole life. it was a wonderful time to be chief of staff. the world was changing before our eyes on a daily basis. the soviet union was collapsing, driven primarily by the astute leadership of george herbert walker bush. it was fascinating, it was fun, and certainly, for me, one of the highlights that i constantly look back on. >> i'm going to open up by saying first

we are taking your calls throughout the morning on the washington journal and on c-span3 on american history tv. a few minutes ago we showed you president george h w bush's first public reaction to the news about the fall of the berlin wall on november 9, 1989. in that clip you saw you saw secretary of state james baker in the oval office with him. withlked with -- we talked secretary baker about his memories from that day, about being in the oval office that day and what it was like to watch the fall of the berlin wall from the white house. this is secretary baker from houston, texas, talking about where he was when he heard about the news on november 9, 1989. [video] >> i was hosting a lunch for the president of the philippines in the dining room at the top of the state department. hers hosting a lunch for when an aide passed me a note saying the instrument government has just announced -- east has justvernment announced they will permit traffic from east germany to west germany. i read the note to the assembled group of the table. proposed a toast and then excused myself to go to the white h

eastern, only on american history tv here on c-span3. american history tv products are now available at the new c-span online store. go to c-spanstore.org to see what is new for american history tv, and check out all of the c-span product. -- products. 100 26 million people were exposed to russian manipulation attempts in the 2016 election, 20 million on instagram, 10 million tweets on twitter to 6 million followers. we know russia attacked voting systems in all 50 states. we know they targeted this information to specific people and we know 27 percent of voting age americans saw russian misinformation and final weeks leading to the election. that is what we know. what we don't know is what effect, if any, any of this had on the election, on the 2018 midterms, what effect it will have in 2000 20, and not just in the united states but liberal democracies around the world. easterny night at 8:00 on the communicators, on c-span2. >> next on the civil war, author patrick breen discusses his book, the land shall be day loosed in blood, a new h

eastern on american history tv, on lectures in history, g gettysburg college professor on colonial diplomacy. >> they had to conduct diplomacy with native american people. the customs and language and metaphors that governed that metaphor were not european in other begin. they were european. >> the 1969 film "the distant drummer: bridge from no place" on the narcotics and marijuana problems and the studiy to treat it. >> narcotics, am fephetamines, apart the fabric of every life. the aftermath fills hospitals and rehabilitation centers across the country. >> pulitzer prize winner caroli caroline fraizer on the little house on the prairie project. >> when mary fell ill, became blind, laura was then really kind of forced into this role that she had never contemplated for herself, which was to become a teacher. >> at 8:00 on the presidency, we continue our work at pulitzer prize winning cartoonist pat oliver with cartoons of president bush to obama. explore our nation's past on american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> now a discussion on the trump administration's recent immigration po

. >> explore our nation's past on american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> next on american history tv, three authors explore the role of men in the women's suffrage movement and the reasons they supported the movement. this is one of a series associated with their exhibit rightfully hers, american women and the vote. >>> well, good evening. welcome to the william g. mccoun theater. i'm debrawall, deputy ar kooifr for the u.s. i'm pleased you can join us whether you're here or joining us online. tonight's discussion of women's suffragists and the men who supported them, the suffrage gents and their role is part of the series related to our special exhibit rightfully hers. our partners are the 2020 women's vote centennial initiative and the one woman, one vote 2020 festival. we thank them for their support. our special twibt tells the story of women's voting rights. to sure these they had to win allies among men in influential positions. it was men who sat in the state legislatures that would ratify or reject the 19th amendment who's centennial we now celebrate. when it opened

committee's work during the nixon impeachment inquiry. 6:00 p.m.xt sunday at eastern here on american history tv, only on c-span 3. announcer: american history tv products are now available at the new c-span online store. store.org to see what is new for american history tv and check out all of the c-span products. announcer: next on american history tv, air force veteran and former national flight director gene kranz discusses his life and career, culminating the stories about apollo 11 and apollo 13. this talk marking the 50th anniversary of apollo 11 was part of the american veterans center's annual conference in washington dc. pleasure -- iy think he is here -- to introduce -- jared, are you still here? oh, he is behind me. i was waiting for you to come to the other side. from dallas, texas by way of texas a&m university. thank you. [appla

history. to watch more video and other stops on the tour, visit c-span.org/cities tour. you are watching american history tv. a weekend every weekend on c-span3. american history tv is looking back 40 years to november 1979 when iranian students seized the u.s. embassy and took 66 americans hostage. next, former a u.s. foreign service officer john limbert talks about his time as a hostage in iran, including a memorable visit from an iranian clergyman. this interview is from the association for studies and training oral history collection. >> i am john limbert. i was in the foreign service for

history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend. lectures in history. american artifacts. real america. the civil war. oral histories. the presidency. and special event coverage on our nation's history. enjoy american history tv now and every weekend on cspan 3. >>> in this national history center congressional briefing we hear about the role of middle east oil since the end of world war ii. especially about the importance of saudi arabian oil. >>> this briefing is on the geo politics of middle east oil, historical perspectives on the current crisis. i want to just briefly explain what we are doing here and why we're doing it. this is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the center that brings historical perspectives to current issues. the center itself is strictly non-partisan. the purpose of the program is not to advocate for any particular policies, but in fact to provide sort of historical context to help inform policy makers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. i want to thank or acknowledge the financial support of the mellon foundation, which makes this briefing series possible. i want to thank rachel wheatly in the back of the room who is

eastern here on american history tv. n the presidency, former chief of staff johnson you do offers insight into why cass responds to major events, such as the collapse of the soviet union and 9/11. he served under president george served and mr. card under president george w. bush. they compare father and son. >> i want to welcome you to knollwood farms. i am pleased to have governor in here. tonight, we're making history to learn about some of the interworking. have been pundits and professors. there was a professor a couple months ago. he is the professor pushing back the dates of the pyramids and the sphinx about 10,000 years. there has been a famous writer by the name of samuel clemens and my father remembers that as andy he sat with other kids mark twain would read some of his latest work. of course, most special of all, the white house connection was the 300 pound president. william howard taft secretary of house inury built the 1902. visited,e times he they invited the whole town. those days it was 600. the good pr

that's on american history tv. pulitzer sheiks planes the differences between the event and the author's life. the jefferson county missouri library hosted this event. thrilled to see you here tonight. this is the third and final program in this series. we have had wonderful crowds turn out each time. it's been really satisfying. thisve c-span here taping to show on television is the icing on the cake. introduceight is to two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. the editor at is the dispatch. with degrees in journalism and english literature. she worked as a copy editor for the st. louis globe -- louis anded to st. has been an editor and writer of the features department for 30 years. she assigns and edits reviews from 300 seat week. she has written stories about trends and interviewed many authors. that and shedds to will be having a conversation with caroline frazier. editore frazier is the of -- and the author of three works of non-action. her latest book is prairie fires, the american

african-americans, of latinx people, the centuries-old people andmages of how that has as much to do with a lack of diversity. >> watch book tv every weekend on c-span2. american -- on american history tv, we talk about the 18 to stick to battle of williamsburg in virginia and why it was overshadowed that your by larger and bloodier battles. we will also hear why williamsburg's colonial history has long obscured its civil war history. mr. gruber is the executive director of civil war trails. this was part of the emerging civil war's blog symposium.

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> watch american history tv all week on c-span3 and features this thanksgiving weekend.we teach the great migration we must teach it correctly and teach these students that a promise land did not exist. there might have been more opportunities for african-americans in the north, but devils existed there, too. >> friday, a two-part guided tour of a national portrait gallery exhibit votes for women marking the centennial of the amendment. >> victoria hall was well ahead of her time. she started her own business as a wall street banker with her sister tennessee cavlan. she advocated for free love which means sex outside of marriage which was definitely outside of the norms for women in the 1870s and she also ran for president on a third-party ticket. >> saturday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, katherine kobe and kathleen stafford held captive during the iran hostage crisis talked about their experiences 40 years later. >> and one of the marines said to me, he said kate, why did you never say you were in solitary? he said you keep saying i was alone. my mind didn't work in those conne

eastern here on american history tv. "q&a," pamela constable talks about her experiences covering that region. >> sometimes people will say things critical of the united states or of the west. that is more common than somebo dy saying something offensive about being a woman or causing problems. people tend to be, generally speaking, speaking very broadly now, more helpful to a woman than to a man. they can also try to take advantage of you in various ways, but generally my experience has been that if they are not going to like something about you or are going to mistrust something about >> one on what your sunday night at 8:00. 8:00tch sunday night at p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. >> the western history association hosts a panel entitled, does the west matter? about thears talk west geographically, politically and socially, and discuss the broader role of regions when discussing the past and president of the united states. this was part of the organization's 2019 annual meeting. afternoon. i'm the president of the wha. t

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[applause] >> ♪ >> this weekend on american history tv, we look back to the richard nixon impeachmentnquiry. asy reflect on their time attorneys on the staff of the house judiciary committee in 1973 and 1974. here is a preview. >> what should the country have learned from the house's role in the impeachment in 1974? >> i think it is such a serious undertaking. do not pursue it for trivial, partisan, political purposes. if it does fall to you while you examinehe house to abuses of power by the president, be as circumspect and careful as john doerr was. restrain yourself from grandstanding and holding news conferences and playing to your base. this goes way beyond whose side you are on or who is on your side. purveyors be faithful of the history and solemnity of the process. >> i guess that lesson was not learned. >> that lesson was not learned. and that is why i think it is important to keep talking about how serious this is. it should not be done for political, partisan purposes. it in the late 1990's, those who talk about it studyhould go back and the painstaking approach the impeach

eastern on american history tv, on lectures in history, gettysburg college professor timothy shannon on colonial era dmo diplomacy. >> they had to conduct dmo diplomacies with native americans. the language and metaphors that governed were not european in origin. they were native american. >> at 10:00, "the distant drummer," bridge from no place on the narcotics and marijuana problem and the efforts to treat it. >>amphetamines, rip apart the fabric of family life at every social and economic level. the aftermath fills hospitals, prisons, and rehabilitation centers across the country. >> pulitzer prize winner for biography, caroline frasier, on the life and work of laura ingals wilder. >> when mary nearly died and became blind, laura was then, you know, really kind of forced into this role that she had never contemplated for herself, which was to become a teacher. >> at 8:00 on the presidency, we look at pulitzer prize winner cartoonist pat olyphant, with cartoons of bush to obama. university of virginia just acquired his collection. explore the nation's past on american history tv eve

eastern on american history tv. here's a quick look at one of our recent programs. ♪ >> a few days before tragic death comes to president john f. kennedy, p.m. a first lady of a picture of happiness. john junior and caroline are to mark their birthdays after the president returns from a trip to texas. arriving in dallas on the morning of the fatal day, he and mrs. kennedy are greeted by vice president johnson and the mayor of dallas. john f. kennedy has been president two years, 10 months, two days. they ride in the familiar presidential limousine because the weather has turned fair, the transparent bubble top has been removed. on the fifth for window at 12:30 p.m. come the shots that bring death to president kennedy, and seriously wounded governor of texas. 29 minutes later, the 35th president of the united states lies dead in a nearby hospital. limousine bears the marks of violent death. the flowers mrs. kennedy carried from the airport had twisted and turned -- torn. shock and disbelief gave way to tears. the nati

eastern on american history tv, on "lectures in history," gettysburg college professor timothy shannon on diplomacy. >> they had to conduct diplomacy with native american people. the metaphors that govern that diplomacy were not european origin. ca,"nd then on "reel ameri the distant drummer on narcotics and the marijuana problem. >> methamphetamines, barbiturates rip apart the fabric of family life. hospitals, prisons, rehabilitation centers across the country. >> sunday at 6 p.m. eastern, pulitzer prize winner caroline fraser on the life and work of "little house on the prairie" author laura ingalls wilder. >> when mary fell ill and nearly died, laura was really forced into this role that she had never contemplated for herself, which was to become a teacher. and it 8:00 on "the the worky," we look at of a cartoonist with cartoons from presidents bush to obama. explore our nation's past on american history tv every weekend on c-span3. is in charleston, west virginia learning about the city's history and literacy seen. up next, folklorist emily hilliard discussed the ways the

you are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. next saturday we will mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. american history tv and c-span's washington journal will be live beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern with three hours of interview and viewer calls from the newseum in washington dc. this is american history tv, where we explore our nation's past all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. tv,ext on american history military historian gregory erwin talks about challenges the british army faced in adapting to north american terrain and battle tactics during the revolutionary war. the museum of the american revolution, pritzker museum and the richard vann has foundation cohosts this event as part of a three-day international conference. my name is philip mead, director of curatorial affairs on the american revolution, and it is my pleasure to welcome today to welcome -- to welcome today ,resident gregory urwin professor of american history from the revolution through world war ii. a longtimerwin is friend of this muse

history collection. a behind-the-scenes perspective on the house judiciary committee's work during the nixon impeachment inquiry. that's next sunday at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on american history tv, only on c-span3. >> next on american history, three authors explore of role of men in the women's suffrage movement and the reasons these men supported the 19th amendment. this national archives event is one of a series associated with their ex-hibt, rightfully hers, american women and the vote. >> good evening, welcome to the theater at the national archives. i'm deborah, deputy archivist of the united states. i'm pleased you could join us. whether you are here at the theater or joining us through facebook, youtube, or c-span. tonight's discussion of women suffragists and the men who supported them as part of a series of events related to our current special exhibit, rightfully hers, american women and the vote. our partners are here tonight and we thank them r

americans through the context of diplomacy. tonight at 8 p.m. and midnight eastern on " lectures in history. join the classroom here on american history tv. on american history tv, from the western history association annual meeting, outgoing western history association president martha sandweiss gave an illustrated talk about how historians can use photographs, and the stories behind the photographs, to study and understand the american west. professor sandweiss has been studying and writing about photographs for forty years and argues that more historians should use photographic archives in their work.