Two World War I programs air this weekend on C-SPAN3.  As usual, all times posted here are Central, and we can’t be held responsible for schedule changes.

–World War I Naval Warfare airs twice on Saturday, May 12, first at 9:15 a.m. and again at 3:00 a.m which is technically Sunday morning.  The talk is given by Professor Stanley Carpenter of the Naval War College.

-On Sunday we have American Artifacts:  World War I Soldiers and Art in the Trenches.  This airs first at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 13, and repeats at 9:00 p.m.  This is a look at stone carvings left behind in bunkers and trenches by soldiers and recently rediscovered.

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.