tv, we will look at how new hampshire became the first in the nation primary state with author dante scala looking at the new hampshire primary and presidential kpolitics. >> we see ourselves as a place where a candidate can rise up from being a virtual national unknown to a contender for the nomination. >> at sundate 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv, we will tour the new hampshire statehouse and looking at the history of the building and the state legislature. >> new hampshire's house of representatives has the oldest continuously used legislative chambers in america. and here is the room where the largest state legislature in the united states works and meets. >> and then a visit to the home of franklin pierce to learn about the life of the 14th president. watch c-span's city tour of concord, new hampshire, saturday can at noonest earn on c-span's book tv and sunday at 2:00 p.m. on c-span3 working with the cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> president trump reportedly agreed to work with democrats on the plan to help people who are the children of illegal

comcast cable partners, for the next hour we'll feature the area's literary community beginning with dante scalanew hampshire's role during a presidential election. >> new hampshire's role is to be the primary that is first of all the primaries mt. nomination process -- in the nomination process. and that's a spot on the calendar that we've held now for about a century, and it's grown in importance over time as the presidential nomination process became more democratic with a small d. new hampshire and iowa work together to basically narrow the field for the rest of the country. new hampshire primary's been the first in the nation for a century, and it actually happened by accident. two accidents, fortunate ones more us. one was that new hampshire decided to hold its primary in conjunction with town meetings which occurred in the springtime. and that wasn't to be first, but it was essentially to save money, to have multiple elections on the same day. but when we started the presidential primary, we were not first. there were a couple of other states that were ahead of us. but remember at the tim

the help of our comcast cable, we will feature the areas literary community beginning with dante scala on new hampshire's role during the presidential election.

comcast cable partners, for the next hour we'll feature the area's literary community beginning with dante scalanew hampshire's role during a presidential election. >> new hampshire's role is to be the primary that is first of all the primaries mt. nomination process -- in the nomination process. and that's a spot on the calendar

literary life of the granite state's capital city saturday at noon east enon book tv, with author dante scala and his book "stormy weather, the new hampshire primary and presidential politics." >> we still see ourselves as a place where a candidate can rise up from being a virtual national unknown to becoming a contender for the nomination. >> on sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on "american history tv," we'll tour the new hampshire state house taking a look at the history of the building and the state legislature. >> new hampshire's house of representatives has the oldest continuously used legislative chambers in america. and here is the room where the largest state legislature in the united states works and meets. >> and then a visit to the home of franklin pierce to learn about the life of the 14th u.s. president. watch c-span cities tour of concord, new hampshire, saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's book tv and sunday at 2:00 p.m. on "american history tv" on c-span3 working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> president trump is visiting florida today to asses