Highlights This 3-Day Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Weekend, January 18-21, 2020

by rlogan

C-SPAN3's American History TV
8am Saturday - 8am Monday, January 18-21, 2019

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Saturday 6pm ET
The Civil War: Battle of Fort Fisher
Author Rod Gragg describes the 1864 & 1865 Battle of Fort Fisher. Though beaten back at the first engagement, the Union Army remained determined to capture the fort and control the last remaining Confederate seaport - Wilmington, North Carolina. Mr. Gragg is the author of "Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher" and he spoke at Pamplin Historical Park's "Small Battles, Big Results" symposium.

Saturday 10pm & Sunday 4pm ET
Reel America: Manhoff Film Archive of 1950s Soviet Union
The Manhoff Archive includes hundreds of color slides and film reels taken by U.S. Army Major Martin Manhoff in the early 1950s while he was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow as a military attaché. Historian Douglas Smith joins us to view and discuss Mr. Manhoff's silent color film, including Joseph Stalin's 1953 Moscow funeral.

Sunday 6pm & 10pm ET
American Artifacts: World War II M4 Sherman Tank
Retired U.S. Army colonel and living history hobbyist Alexander Kose explains the M4 Sherman tank's history and demonstrates how it works. The most commonly used American tank in World War II, with more than 49,000 manufactured, it was also used by the British, Chinese, and Soviets as well as the U.S. Army until the mid-1950s.

Sunday 8pm & midnight ET
The Presidency: George W. Bush & the Iraq Surge
Former Bush administration officials Meghan O'Sullivan and Peter Feaver (like "fever") recount their roles in President George W. Bush's 2007 decision to increase American troop levels in Iraq, and their subsequent efforts to document these events in an oral history titled "The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush's Decision to Surge in Iraq." This is the first of three programs on "the surge" hosted by the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Monday 8pm ET
Green Book & African American Tourism
The film "Green Book" won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Picture and brought attention to issues faced by African Americans who traveled during the Jim Crow era. At the National Trust for Historic Preservation annual conference in Denver, historians and local officials discussed efforts to raise awareness about African American tourism and to preserve once popular sites.

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