If you aren’t doing anything this Labor Day weekend and need a World War I fix, C-SPAN will oblige you.  All times are Central, and we’re not responsible for schedule changes.  Much has aired earlier on C-SPAN3.

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–Patricia O’Toole, The Moralist.  Her recent biography of Woodrow Wilson.  Airs at 8:46 p.m.  Thursday, August 30.  Repeats at 2:48 a.m. Friday, August 31.

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–American Artifacts:  Great War Exhibit, Part 1.  Airs at 7:00 a.m. Friday, August 31.  Repeats at 1:28 p.m., 7:00 p.m. and 1:28 a.m September 1.

–American Artifacts:  Great War Exhibit, Part 2.  Airs at 7:48 a.m. Friday, August 31.  Repeats at 2:17 p.m., 7:48 p.m. and 2:17 a.m. September 1.

–American Artifacts:  WWI Centennial,  Chateau-Thiery & Belleau Wood.  Airs at 8:31 a.m. Friday, August 31.  Repeats at 3:00 p.m., 8:31 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. Saturday, September 1.

–American Soldiers on the Western Front.  Airs at 9:18 a.m. Friday, August 31.  Repeats at 3:47 p.m., 9:18 p.m. and 3:47 a.m. Saturday, September 1.

–Gettysburg National Park, 1917-18.  Airs at 10:23 a.m. Friday, August 31.  Repeats at 4:51 p.m., 10:23 p.m.; 4:51 a.m. and 9:40 a.m. Saturday, September 1.

–Psychiatry & World War I Shell Shock.  Airs at 11:45 a.m. Friday, August 31.  Repeats at 6:11 p.m., 11:45 p.m. and 6:11 a.m. Saturday, September 1.

–Centennial of Quentin Roosevelt’s Death.  Airs at 12:37 p.m. Friday, August 31.  Repeats at 12:37 a.m. Saturday, September 1.

–American Artifacts:  American World War I Soldiers.  Airs at 12:40 p.m. Saturday, September 1.

–Woodrow Wilson & World War I.  Airs at 4:15 p.m. Saturday, September 1 and repeats at 2:15 a.m. Sunday, September 2.

–Dwight D. Eisenhower at Camp Colt.  Airs at 12:11 p.m. Sunday, September 2.  Repeats at 8:10 p.m. and 12:10 a.m Monday, September 3.

Blair Tarr is the Museum Curator of the Kansas State Historical Society. He oversees the three-dimensional collections of the Society, but has special interests in the Civil War, Wichita-made Valentine diners, and Leavenworth's Abernathy Furniture. In the last few years he has also done a lot of cramming on The Great War. He is a past president of the Kansas Museums Association and the Civil War Round Tables of both Kansas City and Eastern Kansas. He is currently a board member of the Heritage League of Greater Kansas City.