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Preeminent historians and biographers. In the recently released, informative book, these experts paint intimate portraits of all 45 first ladies, their lives ambitions and unique partnerships with their president ial spouses. This series and the book provides an up close historical look at these fascinating women who survive the scrutiny of the white house sometimes at great personal cost while supporting their families and famous husbands and sometimes changing history. Our program tonight will...

Appomattox courthouse and surrendered his army of northern virginia, effectively ending the civil war. We will be live from Appomattox Court House National historic park on both april 9 and 12th as historians including ed ayres reflect on the last battles and explore the aftermath and legacy of appomattox. We will also bring you reenact its of some of the key moments from 150 years ago and we will open our phone lines to take your calls. The surrender at appomattox live april 9 and 12th, here on...

Duplicated or replicated elsewhere. Its an awesome responsibility for the museum to be the caretaker and the steward of this collection. Youve been watching cspan cities tour. Find out where were going next online. A quick reminder that every weekend here on cspan3 experience American History tv beginning saturdays at 8 00 a. M. Eastern. For more information follow us on twitter. Like us on facebook or visit our website at cspan. Org history. Join American History tv sunday marking the 150th ann...

And the Johnson Library in austin. Since we are running late, we will not do extensive introductions. Michael mcdonald is the curator at lbj and arbor klein and barbara klein. Christina is the registrar. We have our new archivist and our registrar. What we will do tonight is a behind the scenes look at some of the treasures at these three president ial libraries in texas. We are the only state in the country that has three president ial libraries. They will each talk, they have 20 minutes each. ...

And our tax system. Sunday night at 8 00 author susan butler on president roosevelt, allies during world war ii and Unexpected Partnership beyond the war. Saturday night on American History tv on lectures in history, university of virginias College Professor on how civil war veterans reunions have changed from reskrukz era. Saturday afternoon at 1 00 American History tv live from appomattox courthouse hispanolia hispanolia historical park. The cspans city tour takes American History tv on the ro...

Switzerland hes well received. Austria, poland and especially his zenith will be in russia. And, again doing these different shakespearean plays. Its in poland where hes thinking about in 1867 hes thinking about returning and hes lining up a 100 performances back here in the united states. On the eve of his departure, he falls sick and dies and is buried now in woodage, polandeandpoland. And thats where his tombstone is. Thats 1867. 1867 robert e. Lee has surrendered the army of Northern Virgini...

Tell us what you think about our programming this weekend. You can tweet us at booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an email. Nonfiction books every weekend on cspan2. And now from the 17th annual texas book festival in austin, texas, a discussion of president Lyndon Johnson and first lady ladybird johnson. This is just over 50 minutes. Hi, and welcome to the texas book festival. D my name is carol dawson, and iw love being a moderator every year at the texas book festival, and i part...

Man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong. He died in august. That is followed by a look at the life of teenagers in the white house. Then the evolution of facebook as told by the facebook engineer who created the like button, newsfeed, and timeline. And you change this army so it becomes a volunteer army, code finder soldiers in the labor market. Go find them in the villages and towns in america. We did that. We created a splendid force of young men and women who are willing to serve their countr...

Believes we need to simplify. We cannot have the tax code that has higher rates and more complexity than anywhere else in the world. We have got to address the system that really hurts innovation and High Technology economy. We did not worry about those when we were doing well, but they are getting in the way of progress we have got to go through the process in a simpler and more logical and efficient way. This is the number one thing thousands of Business People said was the biggest barrier to ...

Youre so gracious. Carry pop back to the earlier panel real quick . Engaging. You are very accessible in terms of answering questions and how are you doing this and what are people wearing. ,y question for this panel is how many people are in the press corps . Is about 40, im guessing. I wouldve thought twice as many. Peoplee are a number of who wear multiple hats. You could be sent off to boston and all the sorts of things. We are all aware of the strains that journalistic institutions and the ...