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Representative Derek Kilmer talked about the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, its mission and its progress. This program is available as a C-SPAN Podcast.

Ed Yong talked about the COVID-19 pandemic. Ed Yong is the science writer for The Atlantic.

H.R. Haldeman’s audio diaries remembering the May 1972 summit in Moscow between President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.

Former Vice President and one-time Democratic Presidential Nominee Walter Mondale talked about his decision to choose Representative Geraldine Ferraro for his running mate, who he thinks…

Remarks from Linda Brown who was at the center of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Supreme Court case and an interview with Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP attorney who represented the…

Harold Holzer talked about the recent remarks by President Donald Trump on his comparison to the 16th President of the United States and his relationship with the press. This program is…

Dr. Charmaine Yoest, a vice president at the Heritage Foundation, served on the National Coronavirus Recovery Commission. She discussed her work in getting American’s back to work as they…

From a 2005 Book TV talk by author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Philip Caputo, who covered the the May 4, 1970 National Guard shootings at Kent State University in Ohio that left four students…

The anniversary of the April 17 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, with President John Kennedy’s phone calls, news conference and speeches to newspaper editors and publishers. David Coleman…

Jonathan Karl discussed his time covering President Donald Trump, leading the White House Correspondent Association during the Coronavirus pandemic, and his latest book "Front Row at the…

Heritage Foundation National Security Senior Fellow Peter Brookes talked about COVID-19 pandemic. He offered his insights into when life might return to normal and the importance of not…

Washington Post National Political Correspondent Dan Balz discussed the latest on the coronavirus and its impact on Campaign 2020. He shared his assessment on President Donald Trump’s…

The April 4 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. was remembered with his last speech, President Lyndon Johnson’s address to the nation and a Book TV 2010 talk with Hampton Sides,…

The March 1968 announcements from President Lyndon Johnson and Senator Robert Kennedy about their presidential plans. Two historians provided their prospective on the announcements.

Author, historian, and lecturer Craig Shirley compared the sacrifices made by our parents and grandparents during World War Two and the depression to the sacrifices being made today due to the…

Tennessee Senators debated whether to allow faith-based foster care and adoption agencies to exclude LGBTQ parents and others based on the agencies' religious beliefs. Paige Smith, Labor…

Seymour Hersh talked about helping break the story of the March 16, 1968 massacre of My Lai villagers by American troops in Vietnam. Historian and Professor Howard Jones talked about the…

Oral histories from Virginia residents on their experiences in Virginia’s schools during segregation and the early years of integration. Professor Brian Daugherity talked about DOVE, the…

Noting the anniversaries of the Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters with President Ronald Reagan and President George W. Bush’s speeches to the nation and the AHTV oral history with…

President Johnson’s August 1964 calls about the Gulf of Tonkin and Congressional resolution.