Highlights This Weekend on American History TV October 28-30
C-SPAN3's American History TV
8am Saturday - 8am, Monday October 28-30, 2017
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Saturday 8pm & midnight ET
Lectures in History: Zoot Suits & Race Relations During World War II
University of California San Diego professor Luis Alvarez teaches a class about the 1943 Los Angeles zoot suit riots. He describes race and ethnic relations during the World War II era and how young people who wore zoot suits came to symbolize a challenge to conventional gender and racial identities.
Saturday 10pm & Sunday 4pm ET
American Artifacts: Green Hill Plantation
On the National Register of Historic Places, Green Hill Plantation was built in the 1790s and was operated by a Virginia slave dealer for the first half of the 19th century. Saving Slave Houses project founder Jobie Hill visited the former plantation with a team of preservationists and 3D scanning technicians to document several existing structures associated with slavery, including a slave house, laundry building, and a stone auction block.
Sunday 7pm & 11pm ET
Nationalism & U.S. Foreign Policy
Bard College foreign affairs and humanities professor Walter Russell Mead discusses nationalism and U.S. foreign policy, focusing on what he calls Jacksonian populist nationalists. He explains how populist Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan gained their political support and suggests that the Trump administration, whose supporters he describes as current day Jacksonians, could learn from this presidential history. The Center for Strategic & International Studies hosted the event.
Sunday 8pm & midnight ET
White House Stonemasons
In an interview at the White House, historian William Seale talks about the stonemasons who built the mansion's 18th century outer walls and who were the craftsmen behind its decorative stone carvings. The stonemasons included Scottish immigrants and skilled slaves. The story is told in his book, "A White House of Stone: Building America's First Ideal in Architecture," which is published by the White House Historical Association.
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