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Discover the people and events that document the American story. Saturdays on C-SPAN 2 starting at 8 am ET or online anytime at .

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1Mar 29, '1850 years ago, on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. This weekend, Reel America commemorates his death. #MLK5024.6×02.5k1.2k4
2Oct 22, '17TONIGHT - @SenJohnMcCain talks about the Vietnam War's legacy on C-SPAN, at 6 & 10pm ET.24.1×02.2k8310
3Sep 21, '18In 1967, #OnThisDay, taping began for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. In 1969, Mr. Rogers testified before a Senate Committee to advocate for educational programming and public broadc15.8×01.7k65233
4Nov 19, '16"Four score & seven years ago" - Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address #OTD 1863. LEARN MORE:14.8×01.1k9280
5Jul 20, '23WWHD "What would Harry do?...Harry S. Truman would fight, and fight to win." @Kasparov63 speaking at the @TrumanLibrary about Truman's leadership during the Berlin Airlift & le14.1×132k136416
6Jun 12, '18"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - #OnThisDay in 1987 #POTUS Ronald Reagan spoke at the Berlin Wall calling for the reunification of East and West Germany.9.6×09664321
7Sep 13, '17Last night, @CapitolHistory presented @Lin_Manuel with the 2017 Freedom Award for #Hamilton. Watch on C-SPAN 3 on 10/1 at 9pm ET.8.8×01.4k2050
8Jun 14, '18#OnThisDay in 1777, the Continental Congress adopted the "Stars and Stripes" flag: Learn more about the #history of the American flag: #StarsandStripes #FlagDay7.8×07303912
9Jan 10, '25For a limited time, the suit coat that George Washington wore to his first inauguration in New York will be on display to the public at @MountVernon (1/17-2/3) @cspan AHTV got a ra7.5×70k97819179
10Mar 13, '19In 2017, over 90 historians ranked former presidents, and these are the Unfavorable Eight. Over the next few days, you can vote for the Worst of the Worst. First vote later today. 6.9×023110219
11Apr 26, '18What was the most pivotal news event of 1968? This Sunday on "1968: America in Turmoil," we'll discuss the Media's Role. WATCH on @cspan at 8:30am ET. #cspan685.9×04282814
12Jun 12, '23"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - #OnThisDay in 1987 #POTUS Ronald Reagan spoke at the Berlin Wall calling for the reunification of East and West Germany. Watch more:5.7×54k143723
13Mar 14, '19"Historians have a special knowledge about our past and there are a lot of mistruths being spun about that… and we have a duty to step in and correct those." - @KevinMKruse Watch t5.5×072716517
14Dec 7, '17Pearl Harbor is attacked #OnThisDay in 1941, "A date which will live in infamy" #PearlHarborRemembranceDay5.3×03773370
15Apr 8, '18Which party changed the most since 1968? WATCH "1968: America in Turmoil" Sundays at 8:30am ET on C-SPAN 1 & 3. #cspan68 Upcoming topics 4/8: Liberal Politics, 4/15: Conservati4.7×02712395
16Apr 19, '18Do you support the reintroduction of the Equal Rights Amendment? This Sunday on "1968: America in Turmoil," we'll discuss Women's Rights. WATCH on @cspan at 8:30am ET.4.6×02612473
17Mar 15, '18Was the U.S. winning the Vietnam War in 1968? This Sunday watch our new series, "1968: America in Turmoil," on C-SPAN & C-SPAN3 at 8:30am ET4.4×02691992
18Feb 24, '22"If they persist, pull the plug...it's still watch closely and don't be afraid to see what you see." From Ronald Reagan's 1989 farewell address talking about a trip to Moscow and t4.4×045416526
19May 1, '17We have over 400 programs on the #CivilWar. And 180 on #AndrewJackson, if you're interested.4.1×03111960
20May 3, '18Did American protesters bring a quicker end to the Vietnam War? This Sunday on "1968: America in Turmoil," we'll discuss the Vietnam War at Home. WATCH on @cspan at 8:30am ET. #csp3.8×02091715
21Feb 20, '19#OnThisDay in 1962, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. In a flight lasting just under five hours, he orbited the earth three times in the Friendship3.6×03551743
22Jan 27, '23My two sisters were taken to Auschwitz where they were killed and they were only 5 and 7 years old." - Alfred “Al” Münzer Earlier today we visited the @HolocaustMuseum to hear surv3.4×32k440908
23Aug 10, '21#OnThisDay in 1993 #SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in. #RGB Watch the full ceremony in our free @cspan video library:3.4×04411075
24Mar 23, '18Who would you have supported in 1968? WATCH "1968: American in Turmoil" this Sunday at 8:30am ET for more on the this presidential campaign. On C-SPAN 1 & 3. #cspan683.4×02001420
25Dec 1, '18"When I said I want a kinder, gentler nation I meant it, and I mean it." President George H. W. Bush has died at age 94. Here's a look at #Bush41 1988 presidential victory speech. 3.1×03031119
26Aug 10, '20#OnThisDay in 1993 #SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in. #RGB Watch the full ceremony in our free @cspan video library:2.9×03301007
27Aug 5, '20Was it necessary for the U.S. to drop an atomic bomb to force Japan to surrender? Join @cspanhistory & @cspanwj on Aug 6 at 8am ET for a LIVE program looking at #Hiroshima75 &a2.8×0128637
28Nov 28, '23"There is life after the White House, and it can be a very full life." From 2011, here is what Rosalynn Carter had to say about fellow former First Lady Betty Ford. Watch the tribu2.8×26k39210327
29Nov 7, '17This weekend we'll have 48 hours of programming on the #VietnamWar. What do you think: Was the American war in Vietnam worth the sacrifice?2.8×01921380
30Dec 7, '18"A date which will live in infamy" - Pearl Harbor was attacked #OnThisDay in 1941 #PearlHarborRemembranceDay2.7×02011670
31Jul 18, '19How did you watch the 1969 #Apollo11 moon landing? Share your story & join us this Saturday on @cspan 3 for a whole day of #Apollo50 programming.2.6×0170792
32May 10, '18Did the United States win the Space Race? This Sunday on "1968: America in Turmoil," we'll discuss the Cold War. WATCH on @cspan at 8:30am ET. #cspan682.6×0219983
33Nov 10, '18It's April 1917. You are a member of congress. Cast your vote regarding a Declaration of War on Germany:2.5×01271400
34Jan 6, '21"Mr. President, I object to the certificate from Florida." #OnThisDay in 2001, several objections raised in the joint session of representatives and senators to certify Electoral C2.5×025110312
35Nov 26, '19Presenting the White House with a turkey has been a long standing tradition, and some birds were spared, but it wasn't until 1989 that #POTUS George H. W. Bush used the term "pardo2.4×0287759
36Sep 27, '19Speaking about the cameras in the @NASA control center during Apollo 11, engineer @poppy_northcutt, "Let everybody who is not in this damn room know, there is a woman here. I'm her2.4×0311704
37Aug 7, '20Given the destruction to Hiroshima from the first atomic bomb, did the U.S. need to drop the second on Nagasaki to end the war? Sunday at 9am ET on @cspanhistory & @cspanwj we'2.4×0111506
38Mar 23, '18Who would you have supported in 1968? WATCH "1968: American in Turmoil" this Sunday at 8:30am ET for more on the this presidential campaign. On C-SPAN 1 & 3. #cspan682.3×0161974
39Jul 5, '18"Sketches or it didn't happen." #1776Twitter2.2×0274822
40Aug 26, '18John McCain has died at age 81. In 1992 C-SPAN visited the prison in Vietnam where he was held as a POW. McCain responded to the footage and commented on his war experience.2.1×019710211
41Aug 18, '18“The right of citizens of the US to vote shall not be denied or abridged...on account of sex” #OnThisDay in 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified. Learn more:2.1×02051020
42May 12, '17#DYK you can watch archival films anytime in our video library? Check out Reel America: #FlashbackFriday #history2.1×02191030
43Aug 14, '17"Don't Be a Sucker" produced by the War Department in the wake of WWII. WATCH Aug 26 at 10pm ET on C-SPAN 3.2.0×01351252
44Jun 6, '1975 years ago, #OnThisDay in 1944, Allied forces invaded Nazi-occupied France. This was General Dwight Eisenhower's message to the troops before they embarked. "I have full confiden2.0×01551152
45Jan 25, '19"I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black & proud. I am not the candidate of the women's movement of this country although I am a woman." #OnThisDay in 19722.0×0208796
46Mar 30, '18"Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white - separate and unequal" – 1968 Kerner Report Was the civil rights movement succeeding in 1968? WATCH "1968: America2.0×0181762
47Jul 2, '18#OnThisDay President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. "Its purpose is not to divide, but to end divisions." Watch more in our video library. #civilrights #history1.9×0188981
48Oct 31, '17What caused the Civil War? We have over 400 programs you can learn from. Watch every Saturday at 6pm ET on C-SPAN 3.1.9×0139800
49Apr 18, '23This Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), #WeRemember the victims and perseverance of the survivors. We recently visited the @HolocaustMuseum to hear from survivors and learn t1.9×18k196606
50May 29, '17In 1915, #CivilWar veterans paraded down Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, DC for the 50th anniversary of end of the war. #memorialday1.9×01731020
51Dec 1, '17#OnThisDay in 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated public bus, leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.1.8×0154981
52May 13, '21"The arc of a moral universe does not bend unless there are people, like John Lewis, insisting that it swerve." Saturday, at 8:30am ET on @cspan 3 biographer @jmeacham & two fo1.8×0253428
53Aug 28, '18"Even though we face the difficultes of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream." #OnThisDay in 1963 Dr Martin Luther King Jr delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. Watch more of 1.7×0147991
54Sep 21, '21In 1967, #OnThisDay, taping began for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. In 1969, Mr. Rogers testified before a Senate Committee to advocate for educational programming & public broa1.7×0177719
55Aug 10, '18#OnThisDay in 1993 #SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in. #RGB Watch the ceremony:1.7×0163710
56Dec 7, '20"A date which will live in infamy..." - Pearl Harbor was attacked #OnThisDay in 1941. Learn more in our free @cspan video library: #PearlHarborRemembranceDay #PearlHarbor791.7×0180735
57Jun 12, '19"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - #OnThisDay in 1987 #POTUS Ronald Reagan spoke at the Berlin Wall calling for the reunification of East and West Germany.1.6×0132901
58Aug 8, '18#OnThisDay President Nixon addressed the nation saying that he would resign effective at noon on August 9, 1974. Nixon was the first #POTUS to resign from office. @NixonLibrary1.6×0114791
59Jan 11, '1930 years ago, President #Reagan made his last official address from the Oval Office. He reflected on his term in office, global affairs, and what it means to be an American. "An in1.6×0152677
60Dec 7, '17#FLOTUS Eleanor Roosevelt spoke to the nation in a radio address after #PearlHarbor in 1941. "We know what we have to face and we know that we are ready to face it."1.6×0178650
61Sep 25, '17#OnThisDay in 1957, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was integrated when the Little Rock Nine entered the school.1.6×0115970
62Feb 12, '19"I have no other [ambition] so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem." - Lincoln 1832. Abraham Lincoln was born #OnThis1.5×0161692
63Feb 1, '19"General Secretary Gorbachev and I exchanged the instruments of ratification, bringing into effect the INF Treaty. The effect of this treaty will be very simply to eliminate an ent1.5×0119762
64Jan 16, '19"This is not the President's domain, this is not his House...the President does not just walk in." @ProfessorU talking about how the State of the Union demonstrates the balance of 1.5×0118711
65Jan 28, '19#OnThisDay in 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. Later that day, President Reagan addressed the nation and postpo1.5×0138704
66Dec 14, '20"Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism." Starting soon at 6:30pm ET on @cspan 3 - Al Gore's Concession Speech from 2000. Watch more: #president #election1.5×0180468
67Jul 2, '19#OnThisDay President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. "Its purpose is not to divide, but to end divisions." Watch more in our video library. #civilrights #history1.5×0144692
68Feb 1, '23#OnThisDay in 1960, four African American students sat down at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, launching a civil rights movement that would sp1.4×14k105531
69Jun 11, '21"It ought to be possible for every American, to enjoy the privileges of being American, without regard to his race, or his color." #OnThisDay on 1963, President Kennedy delivered a1.4×0134712
70Sep 25, '20#OnThisDay in 1957, under protective escort, the #LittleRockNine integrate all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Who were they? Learn more from this 1964 document1.4×0113747
71Jan 27, '18#OnThisDay in 1964, Margaret Chase Smith, first woman to serve in both the House & Senate, announced her bid to run for the Republican presidential nomination.1.4×0148670
72Nov 7, '19November 9th marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Saturday, join American History TV and @cspanWJ for a live 3 hour special from the @Newseum. Starting at 7am1.4×0137553
73Aug 28, '20"I think this march will go down as...the greatest demonstrations for freedom & human dignity." #OnThisDay in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" sp1.4×0133673
74Jan 28, '21"This is truly a national loss." #OnThisDay in 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. Later that day, #POTUS Reagan a1.4×0115617
75Dec 7, '19"December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked..." #OnThisDay #PearlHarbor #PearlHarborRemembranceDay1.3×0107714
76Jan 20, '20Speaking about the rights outlined in the Declaration of Independence, "I don't think these things can be meaningful and real, until all of the citizens of our country are guarante1.3×0120673
77Oct 26, '17New #JFKFiles to be released today...learn about the @USNatArchives collection & see iconic artifacts. #history #jfk1001.3×0123690
78Nov 19, '18#OnThisDay in 1863 - Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address - Here is a 1951 reenactment of his famous speech. #GettysburgAddress #CivilWar1.3×0114741
79Oct 13, '18#POTUS George Washington laid the cornerstone for the @WhiteHouse #OnThisDay in 1792. No idea what a Masonic cornerstone laying ceremony looks like? Click here to see the @USCapHis1.3×0143545
80Aug 31, '17What to do when an atomic bomb comes - 1950s edition. Duck and Cover. Watch Lectures in History #BackToSchool week - tonight on C-SPAN 3.1.3×0139480
81Jan 16, '25This weekend, AHTV visits @MountVernon 's secured storage area to see the suit coat that Washington wore in 1789 for his first inauguration. It is seldom seen in public! Watch 'Geo1.3×12k2075914
82Jun 14, '19This weekend on Lectures in History, visit the @AmericanU classroom of @DrIbram who teaches a class about Malcolm X's views on Africa. Watch on Saturday at 8pm ET on C-SPAN 3.1.2×0119539
83Oct 31, '18#HappyHalloween! Not many kids get to #trickortreat in the Oval Office...1.2×0146421
84Jul 23, '21Have you heard the one about ordering pants? We're talking about LBJ's White House tapes. Saturday at 2pm ET on @cspan 2, learn about a new web site with 650 hours of LBJ's White H1.2×0127445
85Jul 2, '18"I urge every American to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people." #POTUS Johnson on signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. #otd #history1.2×0116561
86Jun 7, '18Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for literature, was born #OnThisDay in 1917. Watch her being honored at the 1999 National First Ladies' Dinner 1.2×0106651
87Nov 25, '20"And now, the last goodbye to John F. Kennedy." #OnThisDay in 1963, the state funeral for President Kennedy. Watch more in our free @cspan video library:1.2×0111532
88Oct 12, '20#Throwback to the 1993 confirmation hearing of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. While introducing her family, she showed a book made by her grandson... Watch more in @cspan's free video 1.1×0137395
89Feb 14, '20Starting Monday - @cspanhistory & @cspanwj will be LIVE from a different museum each morning. Join us from 9-10am ET on @cspan and watch a replay each evening at 8pm ET on C-SP1.1×0129372
90Jan 21, '19"Our movement here in the US is...part of a worldwide struggle to break down the barriers of injustice" - Martin Luther King Jr., 1963. #MartinLutherKingJrDay #MLKDay Watch more of1.1×0101531
91Aug 2, '17If you're interested in the #history of the #statueofliberty - take an American Artifacts tour w/ @NatlParkService1.0×092600
92Dec 22, '21"These young people did not experience a world in which Europe, and indeed the continent, were divided by a wall and a president stood up and said, 'Tear down that wall.'" @Condole1.0×0117272
93Jan 19, '21President Eisenhower's farewell address, 1961. He cautioned against arrogance and spoke of America's purpose to "enhance liberty, dignity, and integrity..." Watch more:1.0×0103464
94Jun 14, '22Happy #FlagDay! #OnThisDay in 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted the "Stars and Stripes" as our national flag. Learn more about the flag and its history in our free @csp1.0×0115432
95Jun 14, '23Happy #FlagDay! #OnThisDay in 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted the "Stars and Stripes" as our national flag. Learn more about the flag and its history in our free @csp1.0×9.4k374873
96May 30, '20In 1922 #OnThisDay, 57 years after President Lincoln was assassinated and the end of the Civil War, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. was dedicated. Here's a look at footage1.0×0104472
97Dec 24, '18"From the crew of Apollo 8, we close with goodnight, good luck, a Merry Christmas and god bless all of you - all of you on the good earth." - Christmas Eve 1968, #Apollo8 #onthisda0.9×098422
98Jul 28, '21"All persons born or naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States" #OnThisDay in 1868, the 14th Amendment was officially added to the Constitution. Learn mo0.9×0108351
99Apr 20, '22"It's a well crafted film...but historic film, it is not." @HistoryGonWrong of @jyfmuseums & @HerbertHistory talking about "Gone With the Wind" and other movies from a #history0.8×0103256
100Aug 25, '16TODAY we are commemorating @NatlParkService centennial w/ programming ALL DAY on C-SPAN3 #NPS100 #FindYourPark0.7×0115190

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