Prime Time Schedule: May 28 - May 31 on American History TV
American History TV Prime Time Schedule
Tuesday, May 28 - Friday, May 31, 2019
Starts at 8pm ET Each Night on C-SPAN 3
TUESDAY, May 28
8:00pm ET: Oral Histories Navajo Code Talker Samuel Jesse Smith Interview
Navajo Code Talker Samuel "Jesse" Smith reflects on his life, his World War II service, and his return trip to the Pacific Island battlefields 60 years later.
9:00pm ET: Oral Histories Navajo Code Talker Samuel Tso Interview
Navajo Code Talker Samuel Tso reflects on his life, World War II service, and his return trip to the Pacific Island battlefields 60 years later.
10:00pm ET: Oral Histories Navajo Code Talker Samuel Sandoval Interview
Navajo Code Talker Samuel Sandoval reflects on his life, his World War II service, and his return trip to the Pacific Island battlefields 60 years later.
11:00pm ET: Oral Histories Navajo Code Talker Keith Little Interview
Navajo Code Talker Keith Little reflects on his life, his World War II service, and his return trip to the Pacific Island battlefields 60 years later.
WEDNESDAY, May 29
8:00pm ET: Transcontinental Railroad and the Big Four
This Stanford Historical Society symposium reflects on the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad and its legacy at Stanford.
8:44pm ET: Promontory Summit
Construction of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads met at Promontory Summit, about an hour outside of Ogden on May 10, 1869. David Kilton visited Promontory Summit, the site where construction on the Transcontinental Railroad was completed
8:56 pm ET: Transcontinental Railroad & Stanford University
This Stanford Historical Society symposium reflects on the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad and its legacy at Stanford.
9:37 pm ET: Northern Pacific Railroad
In 1873 the Northern Pacific Railroad decided to make Tacoma the location of its western terminus. Michael Sullivan talks about how the arrival of the transcontinental railway shaped this small, Pacific Northwest town.
9:47pm ET: Chinese, Native Americans, and the Transcontinental Railroad
This Stanford Historical Society symposium reflects on the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad and its legacy at Stanford.
11:18pm ET: Railroads and American Culture in the 19th Century
This Stanford Historical Society symposium reflects on the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad and its legacy at Stanford.
THURSDAY, May 30
8:00pm ET: The Suffrage Movement & the 19th Amendment
This program is about women's struggles to win the vote and about the lead up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Speakers are authors Dawn Langan Teele and Elaine Weiss.
9:05pm ET: American Artifacts Fashioning the New Woman, 1890-1925
Curator Alden O'Brien leads a tour of the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum exhibit showing how women's clothing changed as their roles in society changed during the Progressive Era.
9:34 pm ET: Black Women and the Suffrage Movement
The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee hosts a symposium on the 15th Amendment and the history of voting equality and inequality since the 1870s.
10:30pm ET: American Women in Politics Has Suffrage Mattered?
Historian Elisabeth Griffith examines the legacy of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote and ponders the question: did suffrage matter?
FRIDAY, May 31
8:00pm ET: U.S. Soldiers on D-Day
John McManus talked about his book, The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day - The Big Red One at Omaha Beach.
8:53pm ET: Dwight D. Eisenhower's Leadership
Susan Eisenhower talked about her grandfather Dwight D. Eisenhower and his leadership skills. Her remarks were part of an all-day symposium commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
9:11pm ET: Gen. Eisenhower & D-Day Naval Logistics
To mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Overlord on June 6, 1944, when Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, naval historian Craig Symonds talked about Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower and the naval decisions that led to the D-Day victory.
10:01pm ET: Eisenhower's Legacy & D-Day
A panel of World War II historians and Dwight D. Eisenhower scholars discussed the events of Operation Overlord and Eisenhower's legacy as the operation's Supreme Commander..
10:56pm ET: Reel America: "Normandy, the Airborne Invasion of Fortress Europe" - 1944
Produced by the U.S. Army Air Forces, this film details the planning, training, combat operations, and after-battle summaries of the airborne forces who dropped into Normandy, France on June 6, 1944.
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