Highlights This Weekend on American History TV August 25-27, 2018
C-SPAN3's American History TV
8am Saturday - 8am Monday, August 25-27, 2018
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Saturday 8pm & midnight ET
Lectures in History: Post-Vietnam War Refugees
Throughout American history, politicians, the public and the press have debated the issue of immigration, refugees and U.S. borders. University of Michigan professor Melissa Borja teaches a class about Southeast Asian migration to the United States and post-Vietnam War refugees. She looks at how laws and public opinion have changed over the past five decades, and emphasizes the difference between immigrants and refugees.
Saturday 10pm & Sunday 4pm ET
Reel America: "Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain" - 1943
By the summer of 1940, Nazi Germany had conquered most of Western Europe and Hitler and his generals were making plans to invade England. "The Battle of Britain," the fourth of seven films in the "Why We Fight" series, is a U.S. War Department movie which was shown to service members and also in theatres. It details the fight in the skies over England from August to the end of December, 1940. Hollywood director Frank Capra, a team of film industry veterans, and Army Signal Corps technicians show how the British defeated Hitler's air force, at a cost of more than 40,000 civilians and vast destruction on the ground.
Sunday 10am ET
Oral Histories: Women & the Founding Era
We continue our eight-week series of interviews with former congresswomen. Helen Delich Bentley served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 1995. A Republican from Maryland, she was a member of the Appropriations and Merchant Marine and Fisheries committees. Ms. Bentley talks about her career as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun covering maritime issues, and her appointment as chairwoman of the Federal Maritime Commission, which made her the highest-ranking woman in the Nixon administration. She also discusses her run for Congress. Much of the interview focuses on her career before winning election to the House; a second conversation was planned, but the former congresswoman died in August 2016, just months after the U.S. House of Representatives Office of the Historian conducted the interview.
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