Highlights This Weekend on American History TV February 22-24, 2020

C-SPAN3's American History TV
8am Saturday, February 22 - 8am Monday, February 24, 2020  

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Saturday 8pm & midnight ET
Lectures in History: Expanding Rights in the 1960s & '70s
We visit the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill classroom of professor William Sturkey to hear about expanding rights in the 1960s and '70s. He looks at the women's liberation and gay rights movements - including birth control, the Equal Rights Amendment and the Stonewall Riots.

Saturday 10pm & Sunday 4pm ET
Reel America: "To the Shores of Iwo Jima" - 1945
Seventy-five years ago, the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and Marines launched an invasion of a heavily fortified Pacific island called Iwo Jima. "To the Shores of Iwo Jima" tells the story of the brutal 36-day battle in which nearly 7,000 Marines were killed. Filmed in color by U.S. service members and edited by Warner Brothers studios, this documentary was nominated for an Academy Award.

Sunday 2:30pm ET
Slavery in Washington, D.C.
Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch and philanthropist David Rubenstein discuss the central role of slavery in antebellum Washington, D.C. They met at historic St. John's Church across Lafayette Square from the White House. The White House Historical Association hosted the conversation in recognition of their new initiative, "Slavery in the President's Neighborhood."

Sunday 8pm & midnight ET
The Presidency: Lincoln, Douglass & Emancipation
The New-York Historical Society hosts historians Harold Holzer, Edna Greene Medford and David Blight who talk about the views of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass on emancipating those held in slavery. They track their evolution on the issue from early in their careers through the Civil War.

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