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Former Lieutenant Colonel Dan Hampton detailed the U.S. mission to break the sound barrier after World War II.

2020 Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) participated in a campaign organizing event at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire.

Harvard professor and inventor David Edwards explored the intersection of art and science for creating lasting innovations.

The 3 producers of the PBS documentary, “The Facebook Dilemma,” talked about their investigation into the social media platform and its impact on global privacy and democracy. Stanford…

A historian and a philanthropist looked at the struggles and discrimination faced by Chinese immigrants in nineteenth and early twentieth century California. First, historian Beth Lew-Williams…

Diplomats, government officials and industry executives discussed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement at a day-long event hosted by the Canadian American Business Council in Washington,…

Journalist William Knoedelseder reported on the rise of General Motors and the Detroit auto industry in the 1920s.

American History TV toured the interior of the oldest synagogue in Washington, D.C, which contains artifacts related to Jewish history. The 1876 building was moved 800 feet to be…

C-SPAN spoke with freshman members of the 116th Congress.

C-SPAN profiled the political career of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), featuring video from the C-SPAN Video Library, and analysis by Washington Post senior congressional…

Larry Loftis recounted the life of Odette Sansom, a British spy operating in France during World War II.

Keith Lowe discussed the different ways in which the public remembers World War II, and what we can learn from conflicting historic interpretations. Mr. Lowe is the author of The Fear and…

Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt provides a history of American populism.

Matthew Costello reached back to 1790s politics to explain George Washington’s vision for the capital city later named for him. Washington’s influence extended not only to the city’s design, but…

Historian Kathryn Harris during a driving tour of Springfield, Illinois, described a 1908 event in which 5,000 white citizens stormed into black neighborhoods in the town, resulting in the lynching of black…

Grace Kennan Warnecke, daughter of American diplomat George Kennan, talked about her memoir, Daughter of the Cold War.

Civil War scholar Patrick Hickey presented a program titled, “The Devil vs. the Hummingbird: The Midnight Confrontation on Capitol Hill that Determined the Fate of a Presidency and Ensured the Survival…

We toured the U.S. Army Medical Department Museum at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio to see several advances made by Army medics in the past 200 years. Director George Wunderlich showed us…

Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and First Amendment scholar Geoffrey Stone examined the evolution of free speech since the Supreme Court’s 1919 ruling which decided that freedom…