The most recent programs for the Tour - Book TV type. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/browse?browse=format&id=61 en-US Copyright 2013, National Cable Satellite Corporation info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Tue, 21 May 2013 20:31:47 GMT Tour - Book TV Barbara Harrelson, author of the book, [Walks in Literary Santa Fe: A Guide to Landmarks, Legends, and Lore], guided a walking tour of Santa Fe, and talked about some of city's literary landmarks. C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2013 LCV Cities Tour" in Santa Fe, New Mexico to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Comcast 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. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/310679-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/310679-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT New York State Librarian Bernie Margolis talked about the New York State Talking Book and Braille Library. Part of the Library of Congress, this federally-funded library provides Braille, recorded books, magazines and the necessary equipment to residents unable to read standard printed materials. C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2012 LCV Cities Tour" in Albany, New York 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. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/309532-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/309532-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Claire Benedict talked about the Bear Pond Books' longstanding role in the community, the impact of commercial competition and how the store has survived for nearly 40 years. C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2012 LCV Cities Tour" in Montpelier, Vermont, on October 8-11 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Comcast 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. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/309150-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/309150-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Tess Chakkalakal talked about significant locations in Harriet Beecher Stowe's life as she developed the characters in [Uncle Tom's Cabin]. Locations included the church where Beecher Stowe had the vision of Uncle Tom, the home in which her family lived while she wrote the book, and Bowdoin College Special Collections to see original National Era editions and 1st edition books of her works. C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2012 LCV Cities Tour" in Augusta, Maine, on September 10-13 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. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/308554-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/308554-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT J. Blaine Hudson, co-author of [Two Centuries of Black Louisville: A Photographic History], gave a tour of locations in Louisville which were important to the history of blacks in Louisville. He talked about the slave trade, black troops during the Civil War, civil rights protests, and the black business district in Louisville. C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2012 LCV Cities Tour" in Louisville, Kentucky, on June 8-13 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. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/307367-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/307367-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Wendy Pflug gave a tour of the collection of political cartoons at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2012 LCV Cities Tour" in Columbus, Ohio, on July 9-12 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. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/307839-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/307839-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The owners of Carmichael's Bookstore, Louisville's oldest independent bookstore, talked about their store and the state of the book-selling industry. C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2012 LCV Cities Tour" in Louisville, Kentucky, on June 8-13 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. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/307364-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/307364-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Garrett Peck talked about his book [The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet] (Rutgers University Press August 5, 2009). While researching and writing this book, Mr. Peck developed a "temperance tour" of the nation's capitol as a way to learn about the topic and introduce people to his book. Temperance was a 19th and early 20th century movement against alcohol abuse which led to the 18th Amendment prohibiting the sale and distribution of alcohol in the United States. Mr. Peck discussed the causes of prohibition and the repeal of the amendment in 1933 during a tour that began at the Temperance Fountain and ended near the Woodrow Wilson house in Washington, D.C. A 1933 Universal Newsreel and a portion of a 1952 U.S. Brewer's Foundation promotional film were shown. Other illustrations and video were shown in the background. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/290853-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/290853-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Robert Poole, author of [On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery] (Walker & Company; (October 27, 2009), gave a tour of Arlington National Cemetery. Mr. Poole discussed the inception of the cemetery and showed the grave of the first person buried in Arlington, a Union soldier from Pennsylvania. He described the origins of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the numerous graves of former slaves that lived and died at the cemetery. He also talked about the other types of people buried there. Mr. Poole also walked through section 60, where soldiers from the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are buried, and the funeral of Marine Captain David S. Mitchell was seen. Robert Poole is the former executive editor of [National Geographic] and is currently contributing editor at [Smithsonian]. He is the author of [Explorers House: National Geographic and the World it Made]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/290224-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/290224-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Scott Casper and Dennis Pogue conducted this tour of Mount Vernon on March 25, 2008. Mr. Casper discussed the lives of blacks on the estate and Sarah Johnson. Scott Casper is the author of [Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine] (Hill and Wang, January 2008). Dennis Pogue is the associate director for preservation at Mount Vernon. They talked about the histoy of preservation and tourism at Mount Vernon. The presentation was enhanced with illustrations. This tour is included in program ID 202093. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/204093-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/204093-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT A behind-the-scenes tour of the offices of the [New York Times Book Review] showed how an issue is created. Editor Sam Tanenhaus guided the tour through the editorial and production process of review while staff members described their various responsibilities. Included were selecting and rejecting books; choosing reviewers for books; fact checking and editing the review; composing the layout design; creating headlines, blurbs, and artwork; and selecting and editing letters from readers. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/195760-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/195760-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Gary Gallagher conducted a tour of the Antietam National Battlefield. The tour was given to high school history teachers from Taos, New Mexico, as part of a U.S. Department of Education program called Teaching American History. Professor Gallagher discussed events leading up to the Battle of Antietam, the battle itself, and the political issues affected by Antietam. Fought on September 17th, 1862, the battle of Antietam was still the bloodiest day in American military history with over 23,000 killed, wounded or missing after twelve hours of combat. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/191885-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/191885-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Author Tom Wolfe spent a day in Washington, D.C. to discuss and promote his new novel, [I Am Charlotte Simmons], published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Book TV accompanied Mr. Wolfe as he appeared at the Aspen Institute and was a guest on WMAU public radio's [Diane Rehm Show]. The novel concerns the state of affairs at institutions of higher learning in the United States, and the rude awakening of a previously sheltered young woman. Tom Wolfe traveled to many colleges before writing this novel, and he contends that casual sex dominates the social lives of most students. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/185338-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/185338-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT This program featured Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Robert Caro during the course of two days. Mr. Caro took Book TV on a tour of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and explained how he does his research. He has used the Johnson papers in his multi-volume biography, [The Years of Lyndon Johnson], published by Random House. He was working on his fourth and final volume in the series, concentrating for the first time on the vice-presidential and presidential years. The tour is interspersed with segments of a talk he gave at the library on May 13, 2003. Although he has researched the life of the former president using the library's papers for 26 years, Mr. Caro had never spoken at the library before. During his talk he answered questions from members of the audience. Segments from the talk were interspersed with the tour. In 1975, Mr. Caro began researching a planned 3 volume biography of Lyndon Johnson entitled [The Years of Lyndon Johnson]. The first volume, [The Path to Power] was published in 1982. The second volume, [Means of Ascent] was published in 1990. The project turned into a 4 volume biography before the 2002 release of [Master of the Senate] for which he has received his second Pulitzer Prize. He also won a Pulitzer for his 1974 biography of Robert Moses, [The Power Broker]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/176685-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/176685-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Senator Dale Bumpers toured Little Rock and other areas of his home state of Arkansas signing copies of his book, [The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town], published by Random House. During one 15-hour day, the former Democratic senator and governor signed hundreds of books, greeted old friends, gave one talk, and was interviewed several times for radio and television. His autobiography details Senator Bumpers' life growing up in a small town during the Depression, his service as a marine during WWII, his work as a lawyer, and his political career beginning with his election as governor of Arkansas in 1970. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1974 and retired from office in 1998. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/168795-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/168795-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Book TV joined Al and Tipper Gore recently in Chicago for a day as they appeared in various locations to promote their books about family. This was the ninth city in a tour that has taken them throughout the United States. The Gores agreed to wear microphones throughout the day for a behind the scenes look at a book tour. Their books are [Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American Family] and [The Spirit of Family], published by Henry Holt and Company. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/174243-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/174243-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Senate Historian Baker conducted a tour of the area in a sub-basement of the U.S. Capitol where a rare U.S. Senate Ledger, dated 1790-1881, was found. He was interviewed along with Senate Staffers and book finders Clare Amoruso and Doug Connolly. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/174038-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/174038-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Mr. North toured for the novel he co-authored, [Mission Compromised], published by Broadman and Holman Publishers. This is a quick look at a day where he raced from a book store signing, to his daily radio program, to another book store. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/159105-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/159105-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT As part of the Harlem Book Fair a walking tour took place in the heart of Harlem, with many stops relating to writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. People featured include the well-known Alfonso Schomburg, Marcus Garvey, Zora Neal Hurston, and Billy Holliday as well as the more obscure Rudolph Fisher, Casper Holstien, and Geraldine Disman. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/165632-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/165632-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The library director led a tour of portions of turn-of-the-century financier Pierpont Morgan's original library as well as some of the collections currently held and open to the public. The library is both a museum and a center for scholarly research. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/163624-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/163624-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Authors, publishers, and book lovers talked about the Harlem book fair, their new books, and other issues. Many of the books dealt with African Americans and urban issues. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/158797-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/158797-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Professor Holditch provided a look at the literary history of New Orleans, particularly the French Quarter, including the former residences of William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Sherwood Anderson. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/156415-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/156415-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Ms. Long talked about the special collections at the University of Oregon library. She focused on diaries from the Oregon Trail and other unique manuscripts. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/151811-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/151811-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Blouin described the Bentley Historical Library which houses the Michigan historical collection. It also contains a collection on archiving. Mr. Craven showed visitors methods of conserving and restoring antique books. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/112696-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/112696-1 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT