Making Freedom
Vanderbilt University history professor emeritus Richard Blackett talked about Underground Railroad and the enforcement …
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."
Vanderbilt University history professor emeritus Richard Blackett talked about Underground Railroad and the enforcement …
Author William Styple talked about artist James Kelly who interviewed dozens of Union Civil War generals after the war t…
Author Elizabeth Varon discussed Confederate General James Longstreet, who later embraced Reconstruction and became an o…
Historians Edward Achorn, Joseph Fornieri, Ronald White, Harold Holzer, and Erin Carlson Mast discussed President Abraha…
Carnegie Mellon University professor Edda Fields-Black talked about Harriet Tubman’s role in the 1863 Combahee River rai…
Historian Jonathan White talked about how even though the slave trade was outlawed, it persisted through the 1860s. He d…