Programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. 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 cspans archives which houses over 200,000 hours of Public Affairs programming. The archives started as an id
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 wifes adventures and feeds. Ms. Butlers book coincided with 100th anniversary of Amelia Earharts birth in and the 60th anniversary of her disappearance. This is about an hour. Cspan 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 hactually my husbands 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. Cspan whats 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 on her first flight, where she was just
Facing criticism and concern after crash landing during her first attempt to fly around the world, Amelia Earhart plans to try again in this excerpt from
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