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June 17, 2023
2:00 PM EDT
The Civil War: Civil War Pensions, Widows, and Orphans. Shenandoah University Civil War Institute director Jonathan Noyalas talked about how veterans and widows applied for pensions and the ways that states and military organizations provided for orphans after the war. This talk was part of a conference hosted by Shenandoah University's Civil War Institute.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?527271-2/civil-war-pensions-widows-orphans
June 17, 2023
3:15 PM EDT
Frederick Douglass' Life and Legacy. Douglass Leadership Institute founder Bishop Dean Nelson and Washington and Lee University professor Lucas Morel discussed the life and legacy of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. This program was hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?526333-1/frederick-douglass-life-legacy
June 17, 2023
4:20 PM EDT
Public School Integration in the 1960s. Jackson State University professor Pamela Banks and journalist Jill Lawrence discussed their experience living through school integration as a black and white student in Long Island, New York, in the late 1960s. The University of Virginia's Miller Center hosted this virtual event.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?528552-1/public-school-integration-1960s
June 17, 2023
5:20 PM EDT
Paul Kix, "You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live". Journalist Paul Kix recounted the SCLC's 1963 campaign to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, and how it affected the Civil Rights Movement. The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute hosted this event.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?527790-1/you-prepared-die-begin-live
June 17, 2023
6:40 PM EDT
U.S. Senate: Senate Reading of MLK's 1963 "Letter From Birmingham Jail". Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) led a bipartisan group of senators in a reading of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?527827-101/senate-reading-mlks-1963-letter-birmingham-jail
June 17, 2023
7:00 PM EDT
Deployment Band - Salute the Sunset Military Concert Series at the National Harbor Waterfront, Maryland
U.S. Air Force Band
https://www.music.af.mil/Bands/The-United-States-air-Force-Band/Events/
https://www.nationalharbor.com/events/annual-events/salute-the-sunset/
June 17, 2023
8:00 PM EDT
Lectures in History: Laura Watt on Landscape Preservation and National Parks Sonoma State University professor Laura Watt teaches a class on the evolution of a national park system and the effort to preserve pristine wilderness. She argues that this approach often obscures the ways humans have already interacted with the land. She also talks about her research on the Point Reyes National Seashore which used to be a dairy ranch community before it was designated a national park in the 1960s.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?426970-1/landscape-preservation-national-parks
June 17, 2023
9:10 PM EDT
Reel America: Lincoln Tunnel Construction - 1938. This 1938 New York Port Authority film entitled "Conquest of the Hudson" covered the planning, construction and operation of the Lincoln Tunnel, which connected New York to New Jersey and opened in December 1937. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?528584-1/lincoln-tunnel-construction-1938
June 17, 2023
9:30 PM EDT
The Presidency: Jonathan Darman, "Becoming FDR". Author, journalist, and historian Jonathan Darman revealed how polio transformed Franklin Roosevelt into the man who led the country through the Great Depression and World War II. The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College in New York City hosted this event - and is the home where FDR confronted polio's challenges.
American History/BookTV
https://www.c-span.org/video/?523524-1/becoming-fdr
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