programming on american history every weekend on c-span3. follow us on twitter for information on our schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. welcome to lafayette and west lafayette, indiana, located on the wabash river. west lafayette is home to purdue university. with the help of our comcast cable partners, over the next hour and 45 minutes, we will look at the history of the cities. learn about william henry harrison and the battle of tippecanoe. it was cold and rainy, it was early november. the troops were low on provisions. they had limited manpower and equipment. harrison complained about his shortage of axis and their poor quality in the building of fort harrison on the way up. he had the troops build bonfires to keep them warm and ward off the rainfall, but had them sleep in battle conditions fully dressed on their weapons. videoer, visit c-span s archives which houses over 200,000 hours of public affairs programming. the archiv
her family as well as a prenuptial letter that she gave to her manager george putnam on their wedding day. amelia ehrhardt worked and was left yet for the last two years of her life and she prepared for a solo around the world flights funded by purdue. it was during this like that ehrhardt disappeared in 1937. from an airplane, even the watchful purple hills could not see so well as i the stain of evening. she would have been 23 whenever she was writing these. but you can see that she has a romanticized view of the height, being able to see nature below her. when she became an aviation editor for cosmopolitan she would write about the beauty of flying and how she loved things like seeing the clouds up there and the serenity of being on her own and being able to look at the beauty below. amelia earhart was an early woman pilot at a time when many women did not have careers outside of the home. she is most well remembered for having disappeared. it is still a mystery what
the pioneer. she shows us selected items of the collection including po ems and letters she wrote to her family as well as a letter she wrote to her husband on their wedding day. she worked at lafayette for the last two years of her life as she prepared for an around the world flight funded by purdue. it was during this flight she disappeared in 1937. from an airplane, even the watchful purple hills could not see so well as i the stain of evening. she would have been 23 whenever she was writing these. but you can see that she has a romanticized view of the height, being able to see nature below her. when she became an aviation editor for cosmopolitan she would write about the beauty of flying and how she loved things like seeing the clouds up there and the serenity of being on her own and being able to look at the beauty below. amelia earhart was an early woman pilot at a time when many women did not have careers outside of the home. she is most well remembered for havin
concentration camp, where more than one million people, mostly jews, were killed nazi concentration camp. each week, american history tv s american artifacts takes you to museums, archives, and historic basis. the amelia ehrhardt collection at purdue university houses the world s largest assemblage of papers related to the pioneer. she shows us selected items of the collection including poems and letters she wrote to her family as well as a letter she wrote to her husband on their wedding day. she worked at lafayette for the last two years of her life as she prepared for an around the world flight funded by purdue. it was during this flight she disappeared in 1937. “from an airplane, even the watchful purple hills could not see so well as i the stain of evening. she would have been 23 whenever she was writing these. but you can see that she has a romanticized view of the height, being able to see nature below her. when she became an aviation editor for cosmopolitan
booktv susan butler from 1997. ms. butler talked about her, east to the dawn the life of amelia earhart. the book examines her life and times and her marriage to publisher george putnam who promoted his wife s adventures and feeds. ms. butler s book coincided with 100th anniversary of amelia earhart s birth in and the 60th anniversary of her disappearance. this is about an hour. c-span: susan butler, author of east to dawn: the life of amelia earhart, where did you get the title east to dawn ? guest: oh, the title east to the dawn was my h actually my husband s contribution to the book. i had a very trendy title, amelia earhart, an extraordinary woman, and we decided it had to be something really much more interesting, and he came up with east to the dawn, which i thought was brilliant. c-span: what s it mean? guest: well, it means that her major flights were from west to east, and she was on her solo flight across the atlantic flying into the dawn. she was o