Brittany Hanson
What do you think you know about WWI? That the lead-up was totally isolationist, with no American aid until the last minute, then gung-ho to the front lines to certain, immensely-large scales of death?
A C-SPAN technician presides over the camera angles and cues during the filming of Jennifer Keene’s class.
You’d be wrong.
Jennifer Keene
, Ph.D, professor of history, will be busting these and other myths of The Great War on C-SPAN 3 for American History TV’s “Lectures in History” this weekend at 8 p.m. and midnight ET. The class, titled Americans at War, The Myth-Busters Edition, commemorates the 100th anniversary of World War I by exposing and debunking six common “myths” about the American experience during the war.
Professor Keene’s class debuts this Saturday on C-SPAN 3 at 8 p.m. and midnight ET.
After the class airs it will be available in its entirety here:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?405432-2/myths-america-world-war
The classroom series program will also be podcast and is usually available on the Tuesday following the debut):
http://www.c-span.org/podcasts/#lecturesInHistory
For people who don’t get C-SPAN 3 on their cable/satellite/telco systems, it streams 24 hours a day here (you have to log-in with your TV provider credentials):
http://www.c-span.org/networks/?channel=c-span-3
Featured at Top: That’s a wrap! C-SPAN crew and Jennifer Keene’s class get together at the end of lecture filming.
