C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2013 LCV Cities Tour" in Raleigh, North Carolina, from May 13-17 to feature the history and literary life of the community.*Working with the Time Warner Cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on ...American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2. These were the programs shown during the Raleigh LCV Weekend on Book TV:
Book Discussion on [Freedom's Teacher]
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Book Discussion on [Phantom Pain]
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North Carolina State University Rare Collections Library
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Book Discussion on [The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics]
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Quail Ridge Books and Music
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Book Discussion on [Financing Our Foodshed]
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Book Discussion on [Chosen for Destruction]
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C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2013 LCV Cities Tour" in Palm Springs, California, on May 6-10 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Time Warner Cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed.

These were the programs shown during the Palm Springs, California, LCV weekend on American History TV:
Sunnylands Historic Estate and Retreat
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Betty Ford and the Betty Ford Center
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History of Palm Springs, California
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Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
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Native Americans and Common Stereotypes
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General Patton and His Wold War II Training Center
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Political Career of Sonny Bono
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C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2013 LCV Cities Tour" in Palm Springs, California, on May 6-10 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Time Warner Cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed.

These were the programs shown during the Palm Springs, California, LCV weekend on Book TV:
Book Discussion on [You Can't Eat Dirt]
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Book Discussion on [Palm Springs Legends]
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Cover to Cover Book Club
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Book Discussion on [Cinderella and the Carpetbaggers]
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Book Discussion on [Desert Reckoning]
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Book Discussion on [The Confederate States of America]
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Eleanor Brown, head of the Special Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University, showed part of Frederich Tippman's entomology collection of books and drawings, which includes some of the world's rarest entomological works.

C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2013 LCV Cities Tour" in Raleigh, North Carolina, from May 13-17 to feature the history and literary life of the community.*Working with the Time Warner Cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2.
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C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2013 LCV Cities Tour" in Columbia, South Carolina, on April 15-19 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Time Warner Cable local cable affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air ...on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2. These were the programs shown during the Columbia, South Carolina LCV weekend on American History TV:
South Carolina State House
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South Carolina Governor Interview
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South Carolina State Archives
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General Sherman's March on Columbia
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History of Columbia Mills
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University of South Carolina Horseshoe
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History of [Edwards v. South Carolina]
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C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2013 LCV Cities Tour" in Columbia, South Carolina, on April 15-19 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Time Warner Cable local cable affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air ...on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2. These were the programs shown during the Columbia, South Carolina LCV weekend on Book TV:
Book Discussion on [Woodrow Wilson: World Statesman]
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Book Discussion on [South Carolina: A History]
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Robert Ariail Collection of Historical Astronomy
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Book Discussion on [Buying Power]
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Young Palmetto Books
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Book Discussion on [Mary Chesnut's Illustrated Diary]
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Book Discussion on [Cowasee Basin]
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John Cope of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources visited an exhibit at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh featuring the original workshop of David Marshall Williams, better known as Carbine. Mr. Williams was a self-taught gunsmith from North Carolina who contributed to the design the U.S. Carbine, Caliber .30, M1 (M1 Carbine), which became the standard ...firearm of American forces in World War II, the Korean War and the early years of Vietnam. C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2013 LCV Cities Tour" in Raleigh, North Carolina, from May 13-17 to feature the history and literary life of the community.*Working with the Time Warner Cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed.
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Michelle Lanier of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission talked about Anna J. Cooper, who was born into slavery and went on to become an author, educator and speaker and one of the most prominent African American scholars in US history. Cooper was a native of Raleigh and attended St. Augustine's Normal School and Collegiate Institute (currently St. Augustine ...University) in Raleigh. She lived to be 105 and is buried in Raleigh. C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2013 LCV Cities Tour" in Raleigh, North Carolina, from May 13-17 to feature the history and literary life of the community.*Working with the Time Warner Cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2.
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Holocaust survivor Morris Glass talked about his life in Poland during World War II. Mr. Glass is the focus of author Carolyn Murray Happer's book [Chosen for Destruction: The Story of a Holocaust Survivor]. Mr. Glass spent four and a half years in Jewish Ghettos in the Polish cities of Pabianice and Lodz, 2 months at the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, and 8 months in the ...Dachau camp system. Liberated by the American army in 1945, he emigrated to the U.S. and is now a public speaker. C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2013 LCV Cities Tour" in Raleigh, North Carolina, from May 13-17 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Time Warner Cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2.
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