Quite a bit on WWI on C-SPAN3 this weekend, with one show on C-SPAN2.  All shows are available on the C-SPAN website after their first viewing on the air.  As usual–not responsible for last minute schedule changes, and all times given are Central Time!  Happy viewing!

On C-SPAN2:

Saturday, July 1, 2017–World War I.  Jennifer Keene talks about her book, World War I:  The American Soldier Experience.  9:15 a.m.

On C-SPAN3:

Saturday, July 1, 2017–Never Been a Time.  This is appropriate to the WWI-era.  Harper Barnes talks about his book. Never Been a Time:  The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement.  3:00 p.m.  Repeats at 1:00 a.m. Sunday, July 2.

Sunday, July 2, 2017–1917 Selective Service Act and the Draft.  Taped at the National World War I Museum and Memorial, discussion of the military draft by Richard Faulkner and Beth Bailey and moderated by Mark Adams.  5:45 p.m.  Airs again at 9:45 p.m. Sunday and 1:45 p.m. Monday.

Monday, July 3, 2017–The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson.  Film from the early 1960s, hosted by Herbert Hoover.  1:20 p.m.

–Home Front 1917-1919–Short film on changes brought about by World War I.  2:55 p.m.

–Men of Bronze:  The Black American Heroes of World War I.  Interviews with members of the Harlem Hellfighters.  7:00 p.m.  Airs again at 10:00 p.m.

–On the Firing Line with the Germans.  Restored 1915 film shot in the German lines.  Airs again at 11:00 p.m.

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.