All Weekend. Every Weekend.

Covering American History C-SPAN style: with event coverage, eyewitness accounts, and discussions with authors, historians and teachers. Every weekend from 8am ET Saturday to 8am ET Monday on C-SPAN3.

In January, 2011, C-SPAN expanded its programming offerings with a new history-based service airing weekends on C-SPAN3. American History TV (AHTV) features programming geared toward history lovers with 48 hours every weekend of people and events that document the American story.

C-SPAN began C-SPAN3 operations in January 2001 as a digital service. C-SPAN3 is currently available in 49 million digital cable TV households and is streamed live online at C-SPAN.org.

At the time of the launch of American History TV, C-SPAN co-president Susan Swain said: "We’re hoping American History TV does for history enthusiasts what Book TV has done for non-fiction book lovers."

Upcoming Programs

October 25, 2020
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia

Museum founder and director David Pilgrim and museum educator Cyndi Tiedt show a selection of artifacts from their…
October 24, 2020
Interpreting Appomattox

Gettysburg College Civil War Institute hosted an online discussion about how interpretation has changed over the years…

Featured Programs

November 6, 2016
Presidential Debate, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan

President Jimmy Carter and Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan met in Cleveland, Ohio, for the last of two…
October 11, 1992
Presidential Candidates Debate

President George H.W. Bush, Governor Bill Clinton (D-AR), and H. Ross Perot met at Washington University in St. Louis for the first of three presidential debates prior to the 1992 presidential…

TV Schedule

This Week

Most Recent American History TV Videos

October 24, 2020
Army in Action - The Cobra Strikes

The final episode in a ten-part U.S. Army history series tells the story of the 1950 to 1953 Korean War, when the U.S.…
October 15, 2015
Seeds of Destiny

This 1946 Academy Award-winning short U.S. Army film depicts the crisis of millions of refugees and orphans at the end…
October 24, 2020
The United Nations and World Disputes

This U.S. Army film shows the June, 1945 founding of the United Nations and documents how the international body…
July 3, 2015
U.S. Information Service Film, San Francisco 1945

This Office of War Information film documents the founding United Nations conference of April to June 1945 in which the…

October 24, 2020
Speaker of the House Elections

Charles Stewart, co-author of “Fighting for the Speakership: The House & the Rise of Party Government,” discussed the history…
October 24, 2020
Presidential Debates

University of Utah political science professor David Buhler taught a class about presidential debates and their influence on…
October 24, 2020
Civil War Monuments

Thomas Brown is the author of “Civil War Monuments & the Militarization of America.” He discussed his book with Gregory…
March 22, 2020
Spanish Governor's Palace

The Spanish Governor’s Palace in San Antonio is the last visual remnants of the Presidio San Antonio de Bejar. Colleen Swain, director of…

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Clips from this Series

Oct 22, 2020
User Day-of-Infamy_speech
- 8 minutes
- 396 views
Oct 17, 2020
User DDay
- 8 minutes
- 587 views
Oct 15, 2020
User Nuremberg
- 4 minutes
- 1,761 views
Oct 21, 2020
User Professor Mathieu Lecture
- 52 minutes
- 67 views

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