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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."

Most Recent Lectures in History Videos

March 18, 2023
West Virginia Statehood

West Virginia University professor William Gorby taught a class on the formation of West Virginia and its entry into…
March 11, 2023
The 'Red Scare' (1940s-50s)

University of California, Davis, history Professor Kathryn Olmsted taught a class on how the ‘Red Scare’ evolved into a…
July 16, 2022
Economists Keynes, Hayek, and Friedman

University of California Santa Barbara economics professor Lanny Ebenstein taught a class comparing the work of John…

April 23, 2022
Economics of the Industrial Revolution

George Mason University professor John Nye taught a class about the economic history of the Industrial Revolution in…
January 8, 2022
African American Women in Arts and Literature

St. Joseph’s University professor Katherine Sibley taught a class about African American women who were writers and…
December 3, 2022
Slavery in the Northern Colonies

University of South Carolina Professor Nicole Maskiell taught a class on the early development of slavery in the…