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June 23, 2018
Union Troops and Pornography

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg talked about Union soldiers and pornography during the Civil War. Professor…
June 23, 2018
Common Civil War Soldiers

Peter Carmichael is director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. He talked about his research into “common…

June 23, 2018
Dwight Eisenhower at Gettysburg

Gettysburg College professor Michael Birkner looked at Dwight Eisenhower’s interest in the Civil War, particularly…
June 23, 2018
Battle of the Crater

Former Pamplin Historical Park director A. Wilson Greene talked about the 1864 Battle of the Crater at Petersburg,…

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Sunday
12:00AM EDTAmerican History TV
7:20AM EDTLectures in History Agricultural Labor Since 1930 and Organic Farming
8:10AM EDTHistory Bookshelf Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
8:59AM EDTLiveThe Civil War Gettysburg College Civil War Institute Conference
10:00AM EDTSlavery to Freedom at Appomattox
10:17AM EDTLiveThe Civil War Gettysburg College Civil War Institute Conference
11:22AM EDTThe Civil War Race, Citizenship & the 14th Amendment
12:59PM EDTCivil War in Fayetteville
1:14PM EDTLiveThe Civil War Gettysburg College Civil War Institute Conference
2:30PM EDTEdmund Pettus Bridge
2:44PM EDTLiveThe Civil War Gettysburg College Civil War Institute Conference
3:46PM EDTFort Gorges
4:00PM EDTReel America Ann Scherer Interview On the Case
4:09PM EDTReel America On the Case - 1968 Documentary on Poor People's Campaign
4:35PM EDT1968 Poor People's Campaign
5:36PM EDTFrank Rizzo and White Working-Class Voters
6:00PM EDTAmerican Artifacts Great War Exhibit, Part 2
6:45PM EDTDwight Eisenhower & World War I
7:47PM EDTMardi Gras World
8:00PM EDTThe Presidency White House Stonemasons
8:46PM EDTPhiladelphia and the Vietnam War in 1968
10:01PM EDTAmerican Artifacts Great War Exhibit, Part 2
10:46PM EDTDwight Eisenhower & World War I
11:46PM EDTNew Orleans Jazz Museum
Monday
12:00AM EDTThe Presidency White House Stonemasons
12:47AM EDTFBI Surveillance of White Southern Students-1960s
1:05AM EDT1968 Poor People's Campaign
2:00AM EDTReel America Ann Scherer Interview On the Case
2:09AM EDTReel America On the Case - 1968 Documentary on Poor People's Campaign
2:35AM EDT20th Century Trailblazing Women Lawyers
4:05AM EDTAmerican Artifacts Great War Exhibit, Part 2
4:50AM EDTLectures in History 1970s Conservative Movement & Foreign Policy
5:40AM EDTThe Presidency White House Stonemasons
6:29AM EDT1968 Poor People's Campaign
7:27AM EDTReel America Ann Scherer Interview On the Case
7:36AM EDTReel America On the Case - 1968 Documentary on Poor People's Campaign
Saturday
8:00AM EDTReel America Memphis Belle - A Story of a Flying Fortress - 1944
8:45AM EDTLectures in History Public Lands & the Law in the Early Republic
10:00AM EDTAmerican Artifacts Great War Exhibit, Part 1
10:50AM EDTDwight Eisenhower & World War I
11:55AM EDTThe Presidency White House Stonemasons
1:00PM EDTInterpreting the Bill of Rights
2:41PM EDT1915 & 1939 San Francisco World's Fairs
3:00PM EDTWorld War I in the Middle East
4:00PM EDTHistory Bookshelf Nathaniel Philbrick, The Last Stand
5:05PM EDTHarry Truman in WWI and U.S. Military Rivalries
6:00PM EDTThe Civil War U.S. Constitution and Secession
7:00PM EDTLafayette in America, 1824-1825
8:00PM EDTLectures in History 1840s Popular Culture
8:50PM EDTRobert F. Kennedy's Political Legacy
10:00PM EDTReel America Salute to the Canadian Army - 1958
10:30PM EDTCoachmen Culture in the Gilded Age
10:45PM EDTConstitutional Interpretation
Sunday
12:00AM EDTLectures in History 1840s Popular Culture
12:50AM EDTRobert F. Kennedy's Political Legacy
2:00AM EDTHistory Bookshelf Nathaniel Philbrick, The Last Stand
3:05AM EDTHarry Truman in WWI and U.S. Military Rivalries
4:00AM EDTOral Histories James and Tuy-Cam Bullington on the Vietnam War
5:20AM EDTThe Civil War U.S. Constitution and Secession
6:25AM EDTReel America Salute to the Canadian Army - 1958
7:00AM EDTWorld War I in the Middle East
7:59AM EDTAmerican History TV

Most Recent American History TV Videos

June 24, 2018
"Echoes of the Great War" Exhibit, Part 2

Library of Congress historian and curator Ryan Reft gave a tour of an exhibit tracing the history of U.S. participation in World War I using…
May 5, 2018
Frank Rizzo and White Working-Class Voters

In this interview recorded at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting in Sacramento, California, professor…
February 10, 2018
1968 Poor People's Campaign

The National Museum of African American History & Culture opened an exhibit looking at the 1968 “Poor People’s Campaign,”…
June 23, 2018
On the Case

This film documents the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, which was organized by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the…

June 23, 2018
Ann Scherer Interview About On the Case

Ann Scherer discussed her late husband Edward Scherer and his 1968 film about the Poor People’s Campaign. On the Case documented…
October 21, 2017
Fort Gorges

Paul Drinan visited Fort Gorges and explained what a local group was doing to restore it. Fort Gorges was a Civil War era fort that has…
June 24, 2018
Union Spy Elizabeth Van Lew

University of Virginia professor Elizabeth Varon talks about Elizabeth Van Lew, who operated a Union spy ring out of…
May 20, 2018
Edmund Pettus Bridge

General Edmund Pettus, the namesake for the bridge at the beginning of the route from Selma to Montgomery, was a Civil War General and…