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    Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle on September 11, 2001

    Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) was among the congressional leaders evacuated by helicopter to a secure undisclosed location on September 11, 2001. He recounted his experien…

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    Mary Matalin on September 11, 2001

    Mary Matalin was a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and was with him on September 11, 2001, when the Secret Service physically removed him from the White House offices to a secure bunk…

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    Gary Walters on September 11, 2001

    Former White House Chief Usher Gary Walters talked about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He stayed at his post in the evacuated White House, seeing to the needs of the president…

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    Rear Admiral David Thomas on September 11, 2001

    Rear Admiral David Thomas described his actions on September 11, 2001. Then a captain, he was at a meeting at the Pentagon when terrorists attacks began. He described the inside of the burni…

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    Major Heather Penney on September 11, 2001

    Major Heather Penney talked about her actions on September 11, 2001. Then a lieutenant, she was one of the first District of Columbia Air National Guard F-16 pilots scrambled from Andrews Ai…

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    NRA Origins and 1930s Politics

    A discussion on the National Rifle Association. Patrick Charles, senior historian for the United States Air Force, talked about the history of the NRA, including changes in gun control and v…

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    Hannibal Johnson on Tulsa Race Massacre 100th Anniversary

    Hannibal Johnson talked about the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, race massacre on May 31, 1921. That day racial tensions in that city led to an armed mob of white men marching on …

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    Colleen Shogan on the Ratification of the 19th Amendment

    Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission Co-Chair Colleen Shogan talked about the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, when Tennessee became the 36th and last state nee…

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    Debbie Walsh on the History of Women in Politics

    Debbie Walsh, director of Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics, talked about the history of women in politics.

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    Open Phones

    Viewers responded to a question about 2020 presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s selection of Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his running mate: “How important is gender in …

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    Student Free Speech and Tinker v. Des Moines Anniversary

    John Tinker, one of the co-petitioners in the Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, talked about the 50th anniversary of the landmark case on student free speech.On February 24, 1969, the…

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    Charles Hanley on Korean War 70th Anniversary

    War erupted between North and South Korea 70 years ago on June 25, 1950. C-SPAN3's American History TV and C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” looked back at the division of the country along the …

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    Uncle Sam Watching the Mexican Border

    Historian Julie Prieto provides commentary for a silent 1916 U.S. Army film documenting the Mexican expedition of 1916-1917 to police the border with Mexico.

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    Howard Means on the 50th Anniversary of the Shooting at Kent State University

    Howard Means, author of 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence, discussed the events that led up to the Ohio National Guard shooting Kent State University students during an …

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    Kari Watkins on the Oklahoma City Bombing 25th Anniversary

    Kari Watkins talked about the 25th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing.

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    Dr. Ali Khan on The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers

    Dr. Ali Khan, dean of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health, talked about his book, The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind’s Gravest Dangers.

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    Open Phones

    Viewers responded to the question, “Is your state ready to lift social distancing restrictions and reopen its economy?”

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    African American Women and Sports

    Professor Amira Rose Davis examined the history of African American women in sports, including women who played baseball in the Negro Leagues in the 1950s and women who participated in vario…

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    Drinking in the Antebellum Congress

    Professor Thomas Balcerski talked about the prevalence of drinking in both the political and social life of congressional representatives before the Civil War. This interview was recorded at…

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    Wikipedia and Historians

    Ryan McGrady, from Wiki Education, talked about how Wikipedia has changed since it was founded in 2001. As the Scholars and Scientists Program Manager, he works with academics to improve sit…

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