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eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. >> today, fcc chair ajits pai testifies on the broadband program before a subcommittee. watch live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 3, online at c-span.org or listen live on the free c-span radio app. >> kevin is a state house bureau chief for the union leader. he is joining us from concord, new hampshire, and over the last 20 to 25 years the granite state has become a real battleground state. why? what's changed? >> yeah. that's interesting. i mean it's quite a contrast, right. ronald reagan, when he ran for re-election in '48 declared it the most republican state in the country. you could have made that case like utah and nevada perhaps. new hampshire has become much more of a swing state. i think primarily because of the migration here. we're unusual in that now fewer people in new hampshire actually were born here. more than 60% of its residents are not natives. many of them are -- come from massachusetts. they kind of came to escape higher taxes and more regulation and -- but particularly on social issues, they're very progressive and t

eastern on american history tv. on c-span 3. >> and now on american history tv's look at the history of gay rights in the united states the pioneering gay films of lil lilli vincenz and a conversation about those films with the mattachine society a gay rights group founded in 1950. ♪ >>> a portion of the 1968 film the second largest minority by producer and director lil lilli vincenz and joining us in our studios in washington is the president of the mattachine society of washington, d.c., which is what? >> we are an lgbt history society. we find old materials that have been forgotten, sealed, or just basically deleted, and use those materials to talk about gay civil rights and the ongoing struggle for gay civil equality. >> we'll show you both films in their entirety in a couple minutes. one is 7 minutes and the other is 12 minutes here on c-span 3's american history tv and reel america. your connection to the films is what? >> we were honored to be chosen by the creator, producer, director of these films. she chose us to br

on oral histories an interview with former bennett college president esther terry and her role in the 1960 sit-in protest in greensborough. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. >> now on american history tv korean war veteran james sharp talking about his experiences as one of the few african-american soldiers in his company while serving as a machine gunner in the u.s. marine corps. >> my name is james sharp. when i was in korea i was a marine pfc, and i'm very pleased to be doing this interview on may 29th, 2014. it's a long time after the war so you'll have to forgive any memory lapses i make, encounter. >> thank you very much again.

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you are watching american history tv on c-span 3. up next, a historian with the u.s. air force, on the history of the national rifle association. this is from the american historical association's annual meeting. >> patrick charles is a former marine and now senior historian for the u.s. air force and the author of the book armed in america, the history of gun rights from colonial militias to conceal carry. thanks for being with us on american history tv. >> thank you steve. glad to be here. >> let me begin with the origins of the nra, the nice channel rough rifle association. how did the organization come about and why? >> it came about after the civil war, where there is poor marksmanship by the union soldiers, two officers decided to form and murray based on new york in for two purposes. to facilitate, build and grow long-range rifle ranges and the other one was to assist the state national guards in marksmanship. the nra initially just so you know, was kind of a working to get appropriations from the government and it started off with one organization in 1700, by 1

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you can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country at c-span.org/cities tour. this is american history tv only on c-span 3. ♪ >> this is korea, a nation divided at the end of world war ii at the 38th parallel. in north korea, the soviet union lost no time in setting up a communist puppet government. in the south, the united states and united nations strove to establish an independent democratic republic. two years ago, as seoul the capital of korea, a commission supervised free election south of the 38th parallel and the republic of korea, a was born. its president was sigmund reid. in may, 1950, the citizens of this young republic went to the polls again to exercise their democratic rights to choose their government onto their democratic constitution. even as the citizens of the korean republic voted in free elections, the north korean communist leaders were boasting of their intention to unify the country by force. and this was their target -- a partly mountainous peninsula and the 20 million peace loving citizens of the republic of korea. ♪ the attack by the north korean communists came suddenly and

c-span's daily "washington journal" program or through or social media feeds. c-span, creates as a public service and brought to you today by your television provider. >>> you're watching american history tv on-span 3. up next, a historian with the u.s. air force on the history of the national rival association. this is from the american historical association's annual meeting. >>> patrick charles is a former marine and now senior historian of the u.s. air force, and now armed in of gun rights to concealed carry", thanks for being with us. >> thank you, steve. glad to be here. >> let me begin with the origins of the nra, the national rifle association. how did the association come about and why. >> well it came about after the civil war where there was poor marksmanship so two officers decided to form the nra based out of new york with two purposes. one is to facilitate and build and grow long range rifle ranges and to assist the state national guards in marksmanship. the nra initially, just so you know, was kind of a working to get appropriations from the government and they started off with one organization, they grew to 1700 by 1929. they are also are, just so you know, built on an englis

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on c-span 3. >> now on american history tv korean war veteran james sharp talking about his experiences as one of the few african-american soldiers in his company while serving as a machine gunner in the u.s. marine corps. >> my name is james sharp. when i was in korea i was a marine pfc, and i'm very pleased to be doing this interview on may 29th, 2014. it's a long time after the war so you'll have to forgive any memory lapses i make, encounter. >> thank you very much again. would you please share your birthday and birthplace? >> my birthday is may 28, 1933, and that was in new york city. >> yesterday was your birthday. how was it? >> my daughter was here, my grandchildren were here. it was my first time playing golf in over three years because of the injury to my leg, the cancer in the leg so it was a very, very wonderful birthday to spend with them. >> again, happy birthday. >> thank you. >> please tell me about your family background, the school you went through. it must be in new york city, right? >> in new york city, yes. i went to a school now called the fashion institute of technology --

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we thank you very much for being with us here on c-span and on c-span threes american history tv. >> thank you, very good to be with you. >> the historical significance of the korean war, as we said often being viewed as the forgotten war, what is it 70 years later? >> well i think we can see it simply in the tension that still exists on the korean peninsula within the nuclear crisis. but you mentioned it was sometimes called the forgotten war and that's partly because it was an indecisive conflict in a far off place. it came just five years after the good war or the great war, world war ii. then it was eventually overshadowed by the vietnam war. but when we look back, you can see this was a watershed moment in the 20th century history because it militarized the cold war and communist and capitalist worlds. it also was the first undeclared war of the united states in its history and of course that is all we have had since. it remains the last conflict between great powers, in this case america and china and with soviet help on the chinese north korean side. and it really made permane

history joined us to mark the 50th anniversary of the upriegz. watch american tv on c-span3 tonight. >> american history tv on c-span 3, exploring the people and events that tell the american story every weekend coming up this weekend saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern on the civil war. the 1863 richmond bread riots where women protest inflation and the scarcity of food. sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern, four films profiling the auto darely and airline industries affected by the coronavirus today. the restoration of indian lands. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> you're watching american history tv on c-span3. up next, the hitch with the u.s. air force on the history of the national rifle association. this is from the american historical association's annual meeting. >> patrick charles is a former marine and now senior historian for the summertime air force and author of the book armed in america. thanks for being with us on c-span3's american history tv. >> thank you steve. flood to be here. let's again with the origins of the national rifle association. how did the association come about and why? >> well, it came about after the civil war

eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. >>> the senate foreign relation committee meets today to discuss coronavirus response efforts and pandemic preparedness for future outbreaks schedule to start at 9:30 a.m. eastern. watch it live on c-span 3, online at c-span.org or listen life on the free c-span radio app. >>> each week american arfy tacts takes viewers into archives, museums and historic sites around the country. up next we visit the rise up exhibit at the museum in washington, d.c., to learn about the 1969 stonewall riots and how they served as a catalyst for the moderate lbgtq rights movement. >> welcome to the museum. i'm patty rhule here. we are here at the prologue of rise up, stonewall and the lbgtq rights movement. stonewall was an event in the summer of 1969 of an uprising of a gay bar that propelled forward the lbgtq rights movement. this is where we tell the story of how ordinary americans used the first amendment freedoms, press, speech, assembly, religion to advocate for change and change society. we're going to walk around the corner in this area and look at so

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. ♪ >> american history tv is on social media. follow us at c-span history. istory tv we are joined by a pulitzer prize winning journalist, author of ghost flames: life and death in korea 1950-1953. he talks about the war that and looks back at the division of the country along the 38th parallel after world war ii, its role in the cold war, in the conflict that led to the death of more than 30 6000 americans. a brief look at the events that led to war in this u.s. 1950 information film. is korea, a nation divided at the end of world war ii at the 38th parallel. in north korea, the soviet union lost that time setting up a communist puppet government. in the south, the united states an united nations drove to -- united nations strove to establish an independent democratic republic. two years ago, a united nations commission supervised free election south of the 38th parallel, and the republic of korea, a sovereign, democratic

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. >> american history tv on c-span 3, exploring the people and events that tell the american story every weekend. coming up this weekend, saturday at 6 pm eastern on the civil war. the 1863 richmond bread riots, where hundreds of poor and working class women protest inflation, and the scarcity of food. and sunday at 4 pm eastern, four films from the 1940s and 50s profiling the auto, dairy, restaurant, and airline industries, negatively affected today by the coronavirus pandemic. and it a pm eastern on the presidency, the nixon administration's native american government reforms, the restoration of indian lands, and a new era of self government. exploring the american story, watch american history tv this weekend on c-span three. now, a conversation on the history of gun regulation and how the second amendment has been interpreted over the centuries. we will hear from a historian, and a law professor in this discussion from the national history center. >> good morning and welcome. it is a pleasure to welcome you to this briefing hosted by the national history center. i'm karen wolf, the e

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on june 25th 1950. the united states later sent troops into battle with more than 36,000 americans dying in the war. now, on american history tv on c-span 3, a conversation about the korean war with pulitzer prize-winning journalist charles handily. >> this is korea. a nation divided at the end of world war ii at the 38th parallel. in north korea, the soviet union lost no time in setting up a communist puppet government. in the south, the united states and the united nations's drove to establish an independent democratic republic. two years ago in the capital of korea, a united nations co

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