Highlights This Weekend: November 3-5 on American History TV
C-SPAN3's American History TV
8am Saturday - 8am Monday, November 3-5, 2018
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Saturday 6pm ET
The Civil War: Depictions of Violence at Antietam
Historian Peter Carmichael puts us in the mindset of Civil War Americans who were not used to seeing graphic battlefield scenes. He focuses on the 1862 Battle of Antietam and how it was depicted in photos, illustrations and letters. He talks about the public reaction to photographs of the dead and how soldiers wrote about the battle to family members at home.
Saturday 8pm & midnight ET
Lectures in History: President Johnson & the Vietnam War
Arizona State University professor Kyle Longley teaches a class on President Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War in 1968. He discusses LBJ's reaction to the Tet Offensive, the reasons behind the president's decision not to seek re-election, his attempts to forge a peace agreement with the North Vietnamese, and the role the war played in that year's presidential election. In July, 2018, Kyle Longley was named director of the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas.
Sunday 6pm & 10pm ET
American Artifacts: World War I Meuse-Argonne Offensive
On September 26, 1918, the U.S. Army in France launched the Meuse-Argonne offensive, the largest battle in American history with over one million troops engaged. The 47-day battle culminated in the November 11, 1918 armistice that ended World War I. We traveled to northeastern France with historian Mitchell Yockelson and French battlefield guide Guillaume Moizan to tour several battle locations, including places where Harry Truman, George Patton, and Douglas MacArthur had formative life experiences. Along the way, we discover several artifacts of the Great War, including an unexploded 75 millimeter artillery shell on the floor of the Argonne Forest.
Sunday 8pm & midnight ET
The Presidency: Reagan, Communism & Pope John Paul II
Ronald Reagan's attorney general, Edwin Meese, talks about the 40th president's views on communism and his relationship with Pope John Paul II at a conference organized by the White House Writers Group.
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