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November 17, 2019
NASA Research Mathematician Katherine Johnson

West Virginia native and West Virginia State University alumna Katherine Johnson played a pivotal role in NASA’s missions to put men in space…
March 23, 2019
We Heard the Bells, The Influenza of 1918

Commissioned by the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, this 2010 documentary includes survivors of the 1918 flu…

February 17, 2020
Abraham Lincoln Interpreter George Buss

Abraham Lincoln interpreter George Buss sat down with American History TV to talk about his more than three decades…
February 18, 2020
Owen Conner and Edward Nevgloski on the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima

Seventy-five years ago, in early 1945, the U.S. Marines invaded the Pacific island of Iwo Jima and fought Japanese forces in…

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Saturday
8:00AM ESTReel America "To the Shores of Iwo Jima" - 1945
8:25AM ESTWhy Benedict Arnold Betrayed America
9:50AM ESTReel America United Newsreel on the Yalta Conference
10:00AM ESTAmerican Artifacts National Museum of the American Indian "Trail of Tears" Exhibit
10:45AM ESTAmelia Earhart - Legend & Legacy
12:05PM ESTThe Presidency Lincoln, Douglass & Emancipation
1:35PM ESTSeeking Justice for Holocaust Crimes
3:00PM ESTAfrican American Women & Sports
3:20PM ESTReel America "The Year 1945" United Newsreel
3:35PM ESTReel America "To the Shores of Iwo Jima" - 1945
4:00PM ESTHistory Bookshelf Lawrence O'Donnell, "Playing with Fire"
5:00PM ESTQ&A Alan Kraut
6:00PM ESTThe Civil War Abraham Lincoln & Emancipation
6:45PM ESTThe Civil War Civil War Places
8:00PM ESTLectures in History The Civil War in the West
8:50PM ESTReel America March 12, 1964 Universal Newsreel
8:55PM EST1939 New York City Nazi Rally
10:00PM ESTReel America "The New Girl" - 1959
10:35PM ESTPolitics of the Founding Era & Today
Sunday
12:00AM ESTLectures in History The Civil War in the West
12:50AM ESTReel America March 12, 1964 Universal Newsreel
12:55AM EST1939 New York City Nazi Rally
2:00AM ESTHistory Bookshelf Lawrence O'Donnell, "Playing with Fire"
3:00AM ESTQ&A Alan Kraut
4:00AM ESTThe Civil War Abraham Lincoln & Emancipation
4:40AM ESTThe Civil War Civil War Places
5:55AM EST1939 New York City Nazi Rally
6:55AM ESTQ&A Alan Kraut
8:00AM ESTHistory Bookshelf Cornel West, "Black Prophetic Fire"
8:45AM ESTWomen Voters,1920-2016
9:50AM ESTReel America "The Year 1945" United Newsreel
10:00AM ESTThe Civil War Lincoln & Antebellum Views on Death
10:55AM ESTThurgood Marshall as a Civil Rights Lawyer
12:00PM ESTLectures in History Expanding Rights in the 1960s & '70s
12:50PM ESTQ&A History of Tariffs
1:50PM ESTReel America United Newsreel on the Yalta Conference
2:00PM ESTAllied Conferences Before Yalta
3:10PM ESTAmerican Artifacts National Museum of the American Indian "Trail of Tears" Exhibit
3:49PM ESTReel America January 1945 United Newsreel
4:00PM ESTReel America "The New Girl" - 1959
4:35PM ESTPolitics of the Founding Era & Today
6:00PM ESTAmerican Artifacts Seminole Nation Museum
6:55PM ESTSlavery in Colonial New England
8:00PM ESTThe Presidency Woodrow Wilson's Legacy on Race
9:30PM ESTWorld War II & Memory
10:00PM ESTAmerican Artifacts Seminole Nation Museum
10:55PM ESTSlavery in Colonial New England
Monday
12:00AM ESTThe Presidency Woodrow Wilson's Legacy on Race
1:30AM ESTWorld War II & Memory
1:47AM ESTReel America "The Year 1945" United Newsreel
2:00AM ESTReel America "The New Girl" - 1959
2:35AM ESTPolitics of the Founding Era & Today
3:55AM ESTThurgood Marshall as a Civil Rights Lawyer
5:00AM ESTSlavery in Colonial New England
6:05AM ESTAllied Conferences Before Yalta
7:20AM ESTAmerican Artifacts Seminole Nation Museum

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Historian Stephen Brumwell explained why the Revolutionary War hero Benedict Arnold betrayed the American cause. He is…
February 17, 2020
Historic Amarillo Santa Fe Depot

Jerry Danforth, director of facilities with the city of Amarillo, Texas, gave a tour of the Santa Fe Railroad Depot in Amarillo. He…
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American History TV visited the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., to tour their exhibit on Cold War Berlin.…