American History TV in Prime Time Feb 20-24
American History TV is prime time on C-SPAN3 this week:
Monday, Feb. 20: National Museum of African American History & Culture
8 pm ET - Re-air of American History TV's Feb. 19, 2017, program from inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture, including looks at exhibit galleries and artifacts. We spoke to museum specialist Mary Elliott and curator William Pretzer and heard from Judge Robert Wilkins, author of Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100-Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History & Culture.
Tuesday, Feb. 21: Japanese-American Internment
Tonight, we present programs about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Feb. 19 marks the 75th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, which led to the forced relocation of Japanese Americans.
8 pm ET - Reel America: "Japanese Relocation" (1943)
8:15 pm ET - Lectures in History: Japanese American Internment in World War II with Ellen Wu, Indiana University
9:35 pm ET - American Artifacts: Japanese American National Museum
10:05 pm ET - Japanese American Experience During World War II - event at Heart Mountain Relocation Center with then Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-HI, former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-WY, and former Transportation Sec. Norman Mineta
10:55 pm ET - Reel America: "A Challenge to Democracy" (1944)
11:15 pm ET - Oral Histories: Roger Shimomura, internment camp detainee
Wednesday, Feb. 22: Lectures in History at HBCUs
Tonight, we present programs from AHTV's Lectures in History classroom series taped at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
8 pm ET - Morgan State University History with Prof. Dale Green
8:50 pm ET - American Racial Concepts and Plessy v. Ferguson with Prof. Tamara Brown of Bowie State University
10:05 pm ET - Emancipation and U.S. Colored Troops with Prof. Roger Davidson of Coppin State University
Thursday, Feb. 23: World War I
April 6, 2017, marks the 100th anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I with Congress voting to declare war against Germany.
8 pm ET - U.S. Peace Coalition Against World War I
9 pm ET - Reel America: "America Goes Over" (1918)
10 pm ET - "Shell Shock" During World War I
10:45 pm ET - American Artifacts: World War I Combat Artists
11:15 pm ET - World War I Aviation 1914-16
Friday, Feb. 24: U.S.-Soviet Relations
8 pm ET - Cold War Summits 1985-91
9:35 pm ET - Reel America: "Communist Propaganda"
10:20 pm ET - Lectures in History: Cold War Jazz Diplomacy in Africa
11:15 pm ET - Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Act 25th Anniversary