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We take you to the special Collections Library to learn more about the Thomas Jefferson papers. Jefferson is the founder of uva. He worked many years to develop the system of education in virginia. Uva was his last great project. He did it after he left the white house. He designed the buildings and the curriculum. He was the first chair of the board of visitors. He was intimately involved as you will see in a lot of details about building the buildings. His vision is called an academic village. If you look at his plans for the university, at the time a lot of universities consisted of one ver...

Books and authors. Television for serious readers. Heres a look at some authors recently featured on booktvs after words, our weekly Author Interview program. Manhattan Institute Senior fellow Heather Mac Donald looked at the state of policing in america. Ney that would ya holt profiled the women instrumental in the development of americas Space Program in the 1940s and 50s. And historian pamela haig looked at the history of gun ownership in america. In the coming weeks, karen greenberg, director of the center on National Security at fordham university, will report on the steps taken by the de...

I started thinking about competitive elections long ago, and i started the project thinking that i was writing as a devils advocate. I saw people assume without question the competitive elections are intrinsically good and intrinsically healthy, and i thought it was important to have somebody make the argument in the other direction. Later, go inside the Cleveland Public Librarys special collections to explore the life of harlem renaissance writer Langston Hughes and his connections to the city. During Langston Hughes time here, he lived in about five different residences. He said he lived in ...

[inaudible conversation] book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading this summer. I hope to finish a couple books, first of all im reading freedoms task which was given to me by senator roy blunt and this is a book that is about the dome being put on the Capital Building precivil war but what i found is especially interesting is as i get into the book of focus on the House Chamber and Senate Chamber and how those were added to the original Capital Building and one of the main proponents of that is Jefferson Davis so while we are approaching the civil wa...

Welcome to nashville, tennessee on American History tv. In the 19 century, it earned the souththe athens of the because of its reputation as a wealthy and refined southern city. Today, nashville is known for its ties to Country Music. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners, we will exhibit two exhibits at the Country Music hall of fame and museum. One about music raging political gaps in the 1960s and another about the origins of Country Music in nashville. Now call Country Music comes from the confluence of the fiddle that came over from ireland and the banjo that came over in the minds ...