louis and other stops on c-span's cities tour at www.c-span.org /localcontent. you're watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. lawrence strickland heads the national telecommunications and information administration. he talks about the oversight of control shifting from u.s. control to an international multi-stakeholder group. >> the clinton administration determined they wanted to move the operation of the domain system out of the federal government and privatize it. what we announced in march was simply the completion of something started in 1998. eight p.m.ight at eastern on "the communicators" on c-span2. >> with live coverage of the house on c-span and the senate wec-span2, here on c-span3 complement that by showing you relevant public affairs programs at of the weekends, c-span3 is the home to american history tv including six unique series. the civil war, american artifacts -- discovering what artifacts or they'll about america's past. history bookshelf, with the best-known history writers. at the presidency, looking at the pol

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c-span/localcontent. we continue now with our look at the history with a look at st. louis. this is american history tv on c-span3. >> and 2014, st. louis is yearsating 220250 50 of the city. they put together an exhibit called "250 in 250." it is 50 people, 50 places, 50 images, 50 moments, and 50 objects. public storage shares with us selections from one of the event the's five selections. >> we are standing in front of the 50 people selection. this section of the exhibit is the first one of visitors see when they come in to the exhibit space. mosteople section was the -- the one people fought hardest for. everybody had a certain person they really had in mind. i think setting it up was the a strongeople was starting point to talk about moments and that kind of thing. some of them are st. louis native, born and raised here and it exciting things here. some are people who came to st. louis and exciting things from somewhere else, and some are heople who later on

louis and other stops on c-span's cities for at c-span/localcontent.u are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> necks of american history tv, author and state department historian james gran wilson -- james graham wilson. the event was hosted by the wilson center at the national history center. it is about one hour and 15 minutes. >> as we know, this is a relatively tense time given some of the topics that i try to deal with in the book, the end of the cold war. i think it is worth keeping some things in perspective in 2014. you know, i start off with an example of a telephone call in the middle of the night on november 9, 1979. his military adviser is calling to say that 220 soviet icbms are on the way. he says, call me again in a minute to confirm that. the assistant called again and says i was wrong, it is now 2200 missiles. just before dialing the white

learn more about salt lake city and other stops on c-span's cities tour at www.c-span.org /localcontent. you are watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. new book "sundays at eight" includes financial journalist gretchen morgenson. to subsidizet housing in this country and we want to talk about it and the populace agrees that it is something we should subsidize, then put it on the balance sheet and make it clear and make it evident, and make everybody aware of how much it is costing, but when you deliver it through these third-party enterprises -- fannie mae and freddie mac -- when you deliver the subsidy through a public company with private shareholders and executives who can extract a lot of that subsidy for themselves, that is not a very good way read more of our conversation with gretchen morgenstern. from public affairs books, now available for a father's day gift. the next few hours, american history tv will mark the 70th anniversary of the invasion of normandy on june 6, 1944 all stop in two hours, you will have a chance to speak to an author about his