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June 17, 2018
"Echoes of the Great War" Exhibit, Part 1

Library of Congress historian and curator Ryan Reft gave a tour of an exhibit tracing the history of U.S. participation in…
June 16, 2018
Memphis Belle - A Story of a Flying Fortress

Created for the Office of War Information by director William Wyler and a crew of photographers, this film documents…

June 9, 2018
Abolitionist Representative James Ashley

Author and law professor Rebecca Zietlow looked at the life and work of James Mitchell Ashley, an abolitionist and…
June 16, 2018
Public Lands and the Law in the Early Republic

Duke University professor Laura Edwards taught a class on public lands and the law in the early American Republic. She…

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Saturday
8:00AM EDTReel America On the Case - 1968 Documentary on Poor People's Campaign
8:30AM EDTLiveThe Civil War Gettysburg College Civil War Institute Conference
12:00PM EDTLectures in History 1864 Civil War Overland Campaign
1:10PM EDTAmerican Artifacts B&O Railroad & the Civil War
1:45PM EDTLiveThe Civil War Gettysburg College Civil War Institute Conference
4:30PM EDTHistory Bookshelf Gordon Mantler, Power to the Poor
5:35PM EDTAmerican Artifacts Biltmore
6:00PM EDTThe Civil War The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
6:41PM EDTThe Civil War 14th Amendment & Reconstruction
7:10PM EDTGeorge C. Marshall & World War I
8:00PM EDTLectures in History Vietnam War's Operation Rolling Thunder
9:00PM EDT1968 Poor People's Campaign
10:00PM EDTReel America On the Case - 1968 Documentary on Poor People's Campaign
10:30PM EDT20th Century Trailblazing Women Lawyers
Sunday
12:00AM EDTLectures in History Vietnam War's Operation Rolling Thunder
1:00AM EDT1968 Poor People's Campaign
2:00AM EDTHistory Bookshelf Gordon Mantler, Power to the Poor
3:05AM EDTInterpreting the Bill of Rights
4:50AM EDTThe Civil War The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
5:35AM EDTReel America Memphis Belle - A Story of a Flying Fortress - 1944
6:20AM EDTThe Presidency White House Architect James Hoban
7:20AM EDTLectures in History Agricultural Labor Since 1930 and Organic Farming
8:10AM EDTHistory Bookshelf Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
9:00AM EDTLiveThe Civil War Gettysburg College Civil War Institute Conference
11:15AM EDTThe Civil War Race, Citizenship & the 14th Amendment
12:52PM EDTOld Cahawba Archaeological Park
1:15PM EDTLiveThe Civil War Gettysburg College Civil War Institute Conference
2:30PM EDTBattle of Selma
2:45PM EDTLiveThe Civil War Gettysburg College Civil War Institute Conference
3:45PM EDTFort Gorges
4:00PM EDTReel America On the Case - 1968 Documentary on Poor People's Campaign
4:35PM EDT1968 Poor People's Campaign
5:35PM EDTFrank Rizzo and White Working-Class Voters
6:00PM EDTAmerican Artifacts Great War Exhibit, Part 2
6:45PM EDTDwight Eisenhower & World War I
8:00PM EDTThe Presidency White House Stonemasons
8:46PM EDTPhiladelphia and the Vietnam War in 1968
10:00PM EDTAmerican Artifacts Great War Exhibit, Part 2
10:45PM EDTDwight Eisenhower & World War I
Monday
12:00AM EDTThe Presidency White House Stonemasons
12:46AM EDTFBI Surveillance of White Southern Students-1960s
1:05AM EDT1968 Poor People's Campaign
2:01AM 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
5:41AM EDTThe Presidency White House Stonemasons
6:30AM EDT1968 Poor People's Campaign
7:30AM EDTReel America On the Case - 1968 Documentary on Poor People's Campaign

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June 18, 2018
Interpreting the Bill of Rights

Constitutional scholar Linda Monk explained the Bill of Rights, detailing each of the ten amendments and how they were…
June 16, 2018
FBI Surveillance of White Southern Students in the 1960s

University of Texas at San Antonio history professor Gregg Michel described how the FBI’s covert surveillance program,…
June 17, 2018
World War II Museum "Road to Tokyo" Exhibit

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New Orleans Jazz Museum

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The Battle of New Orleans was the last ground battle of the War of 1812. Chalmette Battlefield National Park Service Guide Chad Hoing…