Highlights This Weekend on American History TV March 2-4, 2019
C-SPAN3's American History TV
8am Saturday - 8am Monday, March 2-4, 2019
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Saturday 9:30am ET LIVE
The Civil War: The American Civil War Museum Symposium
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham and Elizabeth Varon of the University of Virginia are among the historians who will gather for a symposium on the Civil War. Topics include the war's causes, and the roles of African Americans and Southern Unionists. The American Civil War Museum and the University of Virginia Center for Civil War History host the event at the Library of Virginia in Richmond.
Saturday 8pm & midnight ET
Lectures in History: 1968 Election & Richard Nixon's First Term
American History TV visited the University of Chicago classroom of professor Jane Dailey to hear her talk about the 1968 presidential election. She covers the unrest in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention, Vietnam War protests, discusses the presidential candidates and outlines the lead-up to the Watergate break-in.
Saturday 10pm & Sunday 4pm ET
Reel America: "Apollo 9: Three to Make Ready" - 1969
Fifty years ago, on March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 blasted off for a 10-day mission to test systems that would be essential for the July 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing. "Apollo 9: Three to Make Ready" is a NASA film that details the mission's lunar module undocking and docking tests, spacewalks in moon suits, and the March 13, 1969 splashdown.
Saturday 10:30pm & Sunday 4:30pm ET
How World War I Affected the United States
Author Garrett Peck spoke before a Smithsonian Associates group about World War I's impact on Americans - especially on issues like Prohibition, women's suffrage and racial unrest. His book on the subject is "The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath."
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