C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles take American History TV on the road. Throughout the weekend of April 6-8 we feature the history of Mesa, Arizona.

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C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles take American History TV on the road. Throughout the weekend of May 4-6 we feature the history of Yuma, Arizona.

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C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles take American History TV on the road. Throughout the weekend of April 20-22 we feature the history of Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles take American History TV on the road. Throughout the weekend of March 16-18 we feature the history of Alexandria, Virginia.

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C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles take American History TV on the road. Throughout the weekend of February 2-4 we feature the history of New Mexico's capital city, Santa Fe.

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C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles take American History TV on the road. Throughout the weekend of March 2-4 we feature the history of New Mexico's largest city, Albuquerque.

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This June marks the 50th Anniversary of two of President John F. Kennedy’s most memorable speeches. On June 10th 1963, JFK delivered the commencement address at American University known as his “Peace Speech.” He called for high-level negotiations with the Soviet Union, a nuclear test ban treaty and an end to the Cold War.  On June 26th 1963, President Kennedy took a harder line in West Berlin, famously stating that as a free man he took pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner.” This is a discussion from the Kennedy Presidential Library about the significance and lasting influence of these two addresses.

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The Battle of Gettysburg took place July 1-3, 1863, in Pennsylvania, as Union forces turned back an invasion of the North by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The Union victory inspired President Abraham Lincoln to call for “a new birth of freedom” in his address a few months later dedicating the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg. C-SPAN's American History TV was LIVE on June 30 from Gettysburg National Military Park covering events commemorating the 150th anniversary of the battle, including remarks by scholars such as Harold Holzer, Allen Guelzo, and Doris Kearns Goodwin, as well as your calls and tweets for Civil War Institute Director Peter Carmichael and novelist Jeff Shaara.

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American History TV joined historian Carol Reardon and Col. Tom Vossler to learn the story of the three-day Battle of Gettysburg through a selection of their favorite monuments.

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Virginia Commonwealth University professor Deirdre Condit teaches a class on the history of reproductive law in the U.S. Professor Condit touches on the 1965 U.S. Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut, about the prohibited use of contraceptives and the right to marital privacy. The class also examines rights and access to abortion, looking at the 1962 story of actress Sherri Finkbine, who had taken medication she later discovered causes birth defects, prompting her to fly to Sweden for an abortion. Also discussed is the historic 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion case.

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