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  • American Artifacts: B&O Railroad and the Civil War

    Debuted Sunday, April 28 at 8am & 7pm ET

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    American Artifacts: B&O Railroad and the Civil War

    The B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore is marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with the ongoing exhibit "The War Came by Train." We visited the museum's historic roundhouse building for a tour with guest curator Daniel Toomey.  Mr. Toomey argues that due to the extensive use of railroads and the telegraph, the Civil war was the first "modern war."

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    American Artifacts: B&O Railroad and the Civil War
    Sunday     

    The B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore is marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with the ongoing exhibit "The War Came by Train." We visited the museum's historic roundhouse building for a tour with guest curator Daniel Toomey.  Mr. Toomey argues that due to the extensive use of railroads and the telegraph, the Civil war was the first "modern war."

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    American Artifacts: Revolutionary Era Printing
    Sunday, April 21, 2013     

    Each week American Artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and historic sites around the country.The American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, is an independent research library founded in 1812 by Revolutionary War patriot and printer Isaiah Thomas. The library's holdings include more than four million items, and its collection of American printed materials prior to 1825 is the most extensive in the world. Next, a look at selected items from the American Revolutionary period. 

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    American Artifacts: Aviation in the 20th Century
    Saturday, April 13, 2013     

    Each week, American Artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and historic sites around the country. We visited the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum facility near Washington’s Dulles Airport where curator Tom Crouch showed us the airplanes that have carried Americans aloft from the earliest days of the 20th century – planes that have earned a place not only in our history but in our collective imagination.

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    American Artifacts: USS Monitor Sailors’ Burial
    Sunday, April 7, 2013     

    Two Civil War sailors who went down with the USS Monitor ironclad off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1862 are interred in a full military honors funeral at Arlington National Cemetery.

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    American Artifacts: Women's Suffrage Parade Centennial
    Sunday, March 24, 2013     

    On March 3, 1913 - the day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration - over 5000 women paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the White House in a demonstration for the right to vote. American History TV attended a centennial celebration of the event and interviewed organizers, participants, and historians about the women’s suffrage movement. The aniversary event was organized by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, whose original 22 founders marched in the parade.

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    American Artifacts: Government Printing Office
    Sunday, March 17, 2013     

    Open for business in 1861 and located about six blocks from the capitol building, the United States Government Printing Office still prints the Congressional Record each day that the House and Senate are in session. We visited to learn the history of GPO and to see some of their historic printing jobs, including the "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion," which took twenty years to print, and the twenty-seven volume "Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President Kennedy."

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    American Artifacts: Health & Fitness Inventions
    Sunday, March 10, 2013     

    American History TV visited Alexandria, Virginia and the National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum - inside the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - to tour an exhibit about health & fitness inventions. We'll learn about 19th century patent medicines, a mechanical horse used by President Calvin Coolidge, the origins of Gatorade & Nike, and the trademarks and patents of fitness guru Jack LaLanne.

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    American Artifacts: The Space Age
    Sunday, March 3, 2013     

    We visit the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum facility near Washington’s Dulles Airport – the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. We’ll see the museum’s newest prize possession: Space Shuttle Discovery. And we’ll get a look at the earliest capsules that carried Americans into Earth’s orbit and beyond at the beginning of the Space Age.

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    American Artifacts: Old North Church (Part 2)
    Friday, February 22, 2013     

    Boston's Old North Church is best-known for its steeple, where one night in 1775, patriots hung two lanterns to signal that British troops were moving by water out of Boston -- leading to the first shots of the American Revolutionary War. But the church has other stories to tell – and we’ll hear many in this second part of our visit to Old North Church.

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    American Artifacts: Old North Church (Part 1)
    Sunday, February 10, 2013     

    Boston's Christ Church - better known as Old North Church - was built in 1723. The church is best-known for its steeple, where one night in 1775, patriots hung two lanterns to signal that British troops were moving by water out of Boston, leading to the first shots of the American Revolutionary War. American History TV toured the church - and in this portion - we follow in the footsteps of the lantern hangers, venturing into areas off-limits to the general public.

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