Media Menu

Media Menu for January 25, 2012

2012-01-24T10:57:00.001-08:00

Here are home viewing suggestions for the week, selected from online advanced TV program listings and aligned with the state and national K-12 academic standards available online. Please consult local listings also, since actual broadcast times may vary. The Websites cited in the “Log on“ box below the TV listing provide further details about the show’s topic and may contain links to video clips from the show or a complete streaming video version of the show.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012,
5-6 p.m.
History Channel
U.S. History
Middle and High School

How The States Got Their Shapes: Church and States

As shown in this documentary, ever since the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower, what we believe and how we believe has shaped the American map. Could Utah have been bigger than Texas? How did religion shatter New England into such odd little shapes? And did the Civil War actually begin... in Kansas?   TV-PG
Log on http://www.history.com/shows/how-the-states-got-their-shapes

Wednesday, January 25, 2012,
8-9 p.m.
PBS
Science and Geography
Middle and High School

NATURE: Fortress of the Bears

Part of the massive Tongass National Forest, Admiralty Island in southeast Alaska supports the largest concentration of bears anywhere in the world. Sustained by a wealth of salmon streams, isolated and protected by their environment, some 1,700 Alaskan brown bears are part of a unique circle of life that has played out here for centuries. Beginning in August, millions of salmon — pink and chum, coho and sockeye — return to the island to spawn, providing a feast for the bears, eagles, orcas, sea lions and even the trees. As long as the salmon continue to arrive, all is well. But this year, as shown in this documentary, the salmon fail to arrive for the first time, and the bears get a bitter taste of what the future may hold. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/fortress-of-the-bears/introduction/7475/

Thursday, January 26, 2012,
7-8 p.m.
National Geographic Channel
Science
Middle and High School

Finding the Next Earth

This documentary follows astronomers as they enter the final lap in a race to find a planet capable of sustaining life, a world like ours, the next Earth. See the launch of Frances CoRot and Americas Kepler missions, and the smoking hot worlds they discover. See a controversial and tantalizing discovery of a planet where life could exist in a strange twilight zone, that is, if the planet really exists. Astronomers are working to determine what conditions are necessary for life to exist, and they are building the radical James Webb Space Telescope, a spacecraft that can look at the atmosphere around a planet and reveal whether or not life as we know it actually exists.
Log on http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57336848/nasa-finding-feeds-talk-of-a-new-earth/

Friday, January 27, 2012,
9:30-10 p.m.
Science Channel
Science and Technology
Elementary, Middle and High School

How It's Made

Shown in this documentary are short reports on   procedures for making Carbon Fiber Bicycles, Blood Products and Ballpoint Pens. TV-G
Log on http://science.discovery.com/tv/how-its-made/#fbid=O-QGtRbqCtv

Saturday, January 28, 2012,
8-10 p.m.
History Channel
U.S. and World History
Middle and High School

Pearl Harbor: 24 Hours After

This documentary offers an in-depth look at the critical 24-hour period after news of Japan's attack on U.S. soil in 1941 reached the President. Drawing on exhaustive research and new information provided by the FDR Library, the special gives a rare and surprising glimpse at the man behind the Presidency and how he confronted the enormous challenge of transitioning the nation from peace to war. There was no direct phone line between Pearl Harbor and the White House. As information slowly trickled in and word of the bombing got out, panic gripped the White House. FDR's unique style of leadership enabled him to galvanize the American people in the wake of a grave and potentially demoralizing attack. The special features historian Steven M. Gillon, author of the recently released “Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation Into War”   TV-PG
Log on http://www.history.com/topics/pearl-harbor

Sunday, January 29, 2012,
7-8 p.m.
Discovery Channel
U.S. History and Government
Middle and High School

Secrets of the Secret Service

This documentary investigates America's most mysterious law enforcement agency. Classified technology, secret strategies, deception, and human courage combine to provide the best protection possible. The program includes interviews with ex-agents and a former White House press secretary, and examines everything from the service’s training techniques to the protocols used when the President is aboard Air Force One. As well as protecting the President of the United States, the Secret Service also investigates the counterfeiting of US currency. TV-PG
Log on http://blogs.yourdiscovery.com/whats-new/2010/12/secrets-of-the-secret-service.html and http://www.secretservice.gov/history.shtml

Monday, January 30, 2012,
5:45-8 p.m. ET, 3:45-5 p.m. PT
TCM – Turner Classic Movie Channel
U.S. History
Middle and High School

Above And Beyond

This Oscar-nominated film tells the story behind the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II. However, instead of the focus being on the development of the bomb itself, this one is told from the perspective of the Air Force Colonel in charge of the mission which conducted the mission itself. Robert Taylor plays Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber which flew the mission and delivered the payload. Eleanor Parker plays Tibbets's wife Lucy, and much of the story focuses on the effect this mission had on Tibbets and his family. TV-PG
Log on http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1419/Above-and-Beyond

Tuesday, January 31, 2012,
8-9 p.m.
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School

ANNIE OAKLEY: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

This is a documentary about the star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, the young woman who thrilled audiences around the world with her daring shooting feats. While her act helped fuel turn-of-the-century nostalgia for the vanished, mythical world of the American West, the legend of Annie Oakley had little to do with the real Annie. Although famous as a western sharpshooter, Oakley lived her entire life east of the Mississippi. A champion in a man's sport, Oakley forever changed ideas about the abilities of women, yet she opposed female suffrage. Her fame and fortune came from her skill with guns, a concept that was counter to her Quaker upbringing. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/oakley-introduction

Wednesday, February 1, 2012,
9-10 p.m.
PBS
Science and Geography
Elementary, Middle and High School

NOVA: Ice Age Death Trap

Racing against developers in the Rockies, the archaeologists in this documentary uncover a unique site packed with astonishingly preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons and other giant extinct beasts. The discovery opens a highly focused window on the vanished world of the Ice Age in North America. TV_G
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/ice-age-death-trap.html

Book TV Schedule

Saturday, January 28th

8am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"A Soldier's Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq"
William Doyle

9am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Glock: The Rise of America's Gun"
Paul Barrett

10am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"And So It Goes - Kurt Vonnegut: A Life"
Charles Shields

10:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
"Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality"
Richard Thompson Ford

12pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison"
Peter Schweizer

1pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"The Real Romney"
Michael Kranish

2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.
"An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears"
Daniel Blake Smith

3:45pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
Conservative Women's Network Lecture: Marji Ross on "Seven Surprising Secrets of Best-Selling Female Authors...and How Your Future Happiness Might Depend on Them"
Marji Ross

4:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Glock: The Rise of America's Gun"
Paul Barrett

6pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
Encore Booknotes: Jill Krementz, "The Writer's Desk"
Jill Krementz

7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 28 min.
"Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Building it Together to Win"
Ralph Nader

8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
"Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality"
Richard Thompson Ford

10pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
After Words: Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power," hosted by Michael Hirsch, National Journal

11pm (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
"The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism"
Theodore Dalrymple

Sunday, January 29th

12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"I Know Who You Are And I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy"
Lori Andrews

1:15am (ET)
Approx. 38 min.
"Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam"
Noam Chomsky; Fred Wilcox

2am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Glock: The Rise of America's Gun"
Paul Barrett

3am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"And So It Goes - Kurt Vonnegut: A Life"
Charles Shields

3:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"The Obamas"
Jodi Kantor

5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 17 min.
"The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good"
Robert Frank

6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.
"An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears"
Daniel Blake Smith

8:30am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon"
William Adler

9:30am (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
"The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism"
Theodore Dalrymple

10:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 28 min.
"Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Building it Together to Win"
Ralph Nader

12pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
After Words: George Nash, ed. "Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath," hosted by Richard Norton Smith, George Mason University

1pm (ET)
Approx. 9 min.
University of Maryland Interviews: Carol Graham, "The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being"
Carol Graham

1:10pm (ET)
Approx. 17 min.
George Mason University Interviews: Meredith Lair, "Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War"
Meredith Lair

1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 19 min.
University of Texas at Austin Interviews: Ami Pedahzur, "The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism"
Ami Pedahzur

1:50pm (ET)
Approx. 8 min.
University of Chicago Interview: David Strauss, “The Living Constitution”
David Strauss

2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"I Know Who You Are And I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy"
Lori Andrews

3:15pm (ET)
Approx. 40 min.
"Life Upon These Shores: Looking At African American History 1500-2008"
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

4pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.
"An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears"
Daniel Blake Smith

6pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
At the Edge of Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union
Robert Remini

7pm (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
"The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism"
Theodore Dalrymple

8pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"The Real Romney"
Michael Kranish

9pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
After Words: Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power," hosted by Michael Hirsch, National Journal

10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"I Know Who You Are And I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy"
Lori Andrews

11:15pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"And So It Goes - Kurt Vonnegut: A Life"
Charles Shields

Monday, January 30th

12am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
After Words: Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power," hosted by Michael Hirsch, National Journal

1am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 28 min.
"Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Building it Together to Win"
Ralph Nader

2:30am (ET)
Approx. 28 min.
University of Maryland Interviews: Philip Joyce, "The Congressional Budget Office: Honest Numbers, Power, and Policymaking"
Philip Joyce

3am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
After Words: Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power," hosted by Michael Hirsch, National Journal

4am (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
"The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism"
Theodore Dalrymple

5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
"Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality"
Richard Thompson Ford

6am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"I Know Who You Are And I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy"
Lori Andrews

7:15am (ET)
Approx. 43 min.
"The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions"
Jay Wexler

Media Menu for January 18, 2012

2012-01-18T03:48:00.000-08:00

Here are home viewing suggestions for the week, selected from online advanced TV program listings and aligned with the state and national K-12 academic standards available online. Please consult local listings also, since actual broadcast times may vary. The Websites cited in the “Log on“ box below the TV listing provide further details about the show’s topic and may contain links to video clips from the show or a complete streaming video version of the show.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012,
8- 9 p.m.
Science Channel
English and World History
Middle and High School

Prophets of Science Fiction: H. G. Wells

With stories like The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells established himself as a sci-fi writer of almost clairvoyant talent. But, as shown in this documentary, these tales of hi-tech adventure hold an ominous warning - beware the dark side of progress. TV-PG
Log on http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/

Thursday, January 19, 2012,
8- 9 p.m.
National Geographic Channel
Geography and Science
Middle and High School

Easter Island Underworld

Deep beneath the legendary Easter Island, a team of scientists undertake a groundbreaking expedition: to map a vast cave system that became the last refuge of the people who carved these iconic statues.
Log on http://archaeology.about.com/b/2009/06/05/nat-geo-easter-island-underworld.htm

Friday, January 20, 2012,
9-10 p.m.
Science Channel
Science
Elementary, Middle and High School

Asteroids: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

Asteroids are the extraterrestrials most likely to pay a visit to Earth. Yet for centuries they were largely ignored by science; dismissed as either boring or caricatured as the harbingers of an unlikely doom. As shown in this documentary, the truth is far more weird and interesting. TV-G
Log on http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vv0w8

Saturday, January 21, 2012,
6-7 p.m.
Science Channel
World History and Science
Elementary, Middle and High School

What the Ancients Knew: The Romans

Backed by the legions, military and engineering skills, the Romans built one of the largest empires in human history. This documentary shows how their technology helped shape the ancient world and reverberates in our western lifestyle and amenities today. TV-G
Log on http://science.discovery.com/videos/what-the-ancients-knew-roman-arch-vault.html

Saturday, January 21, 2012,
8-9 p.m.
National Geographic Channel
Science and Technology
Elementary, Middle and High School

Ultimate Factories: Lego

It's one of the most popular construction toys in the world. In the age of unprecedented competition for children's attention--from videogames to TVs to countless activities--they still spend over 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks. As shown in this documentary, building simple modular toys with interlocking bricks is a lot more complex than it seems. Their most popular set--the police station--is completely redesigned every few years to keep up with the times. From R&D and engineering to robotic assembly lines and the most fickle test market on the planet, Mega Factories: LEGO takes you behind the scenes as a real life police station turns into a playground for the imagination.
Log on http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/national-geographic-channel/shows/ultimate-factories-1/ngc-the-concept-factory.html?source=email_channel

Sunday, January 22, 2012,
3-4 p.m.
Science Channel
Science
Elementary, Middle and High School

How the Universe Works: Big Bang

This documentary investigates how the Universe came into existence out of nothing, and how it grew from a miniscule point, smaller than an atomic particle, to the vast cosmos we see today. TV-PG
Log on http://watchdocumentary.com/watch/how-the-universe-works-episode-01-big-bang-video_8f7059c91.html

Monday, 23, 2012,
10-11 p.m.
PBS
Arts and U.S. History
Middle and High School

AMERICAN MASTERS: Phil Ochs -There But for Fortune

This is a documentary about a conflicted, truth-seeking troubadour who, with guitar in hand, stood up for what he believed in and challenged us all to do the same. Three-time Emmy®-nominated filmmaker Kenneth Bowser examines one of American history’s most iconic folk music heroes and political agitators. As the United States continues to engage in foreign wars, the film is a timely tribute to an unlikely American hero whose music is as relevant today as it was in the 1960s. Phil Ochs was moved by the conviction that he and his music would change the world. Unyielding in his political principals and unbending in his artistic vision, Ochs tirelessly fought the good fight for peace and justice, in both song and action, throughout his short life (12/19/1940 – 4/9/1976). The tragedies of 1968, including the deaths of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy and the violent events at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, changed the country and changed Ochs. TV-PG
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/phil-ochs-there-but-for-fortune/about-the-documentary/1954/

Tuesday, January 24, 2012,
6-7 p.m.
History Channel
Science and Technology
Middle and High School

Modern Marvels: Cheese

From cheddar to brie, Parmesan to blue, viewers will get a look at both ancient techniques and new technologies behind some of the world's most popular cheeses. Visit the cow pastures of Wisconsin to the giant cheese factories of California to discover how cheese is made. Travel through history from the Roman Empire's diversity of cheeses to the 19th Century birth of industrial cheese. And yes, we'll answer that eternal question, "Why does Swiss cheese have holes?” TV-PG
Log on http://www.cheese.com/

Tuesday, January 24, 2012,
9-10 p.m.
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School

GERONIMO: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

This is a documentary about Geronimo, one of the most complex historical figures of the American West. Born around 1820, he grew into a leading warrior and healer of the Chiricahua. But after his tribe was relocated to an Arizona reservation in 1872, he became a focus of the fury of terrified white settlers and of the growing tensions that divided Apaches struggling to survive under almost unendurable pressures. To angry whites, Geronimo became the archfiend, perpetrator of unspeakable savage cruelties. To his supporters, he remained the embodiment of proud resistance, the upholder of the old Chiricahua ways. To other Apaches, especially those who had come to see the white man's path as the only viable road, Geronimo was a stubborn troublemaker, unbalanced by his unquenchable thirst for vengeance, whose actions needlessly brought the enemy's wrath down on his own people. At a time when surrender to the reservation and acceptance of the white man's civilization seemed to be the Indians' only realistic options, Geronimo and his tiny band of Chiricahuas fought on. The final holdouts, they became the last Native-American fighting force to capitulate formally to the government of the United States. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/the_films/episode_4_about

Wednesday, January 25, 2012,
5-6 p.m.
History Channel
U.S. History
Middle and High School

How The States Got Their Shapes: Church and States

As shown in this documentary, ever since the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower, what we believe and how we believe has shaped the American map. Could Utah have been bigger than Texas? How did religion shatter New England into such odd little shapes? And did the Civil War actually begin... in Kansas? TV-PG
Log on http://www.history.com/shows/how-the-states-got-their-shapes

Book TV Schedule

Saturday, January 21st

8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"1812: The Navy's War"
George Daughan

9:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 29 min.
"No Fear: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA"
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo

10:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World
Leslie Crutchfield; John Kania

12pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"The Obamas"
Jodi Kantor

1:15pm (ET)
Approx. 40 min.
"Life Upon These Shores: Looking At African American History 1500-2008"
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
Memorial Service for Author and Historian John Morton Blum
Multiple Speakers

3:15pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 19 min.
"British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement: The West's Secret Pact to Get Mideast Oil"
Edwin Black

4:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 29 min.
"No Fear: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA"
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo

6pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
Encore Booknotes: John Podhoretz "Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies"
John Podhoretz

7pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon"
William Adler

8pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 44 min.
"Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country in Between"
Jeff Sharlet

10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
After Words: George Nash, ed. "Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath," hosted by Richard Norton Smith, George Mason University

11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 17 min.
"The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good"
Robert Frank

Sunday, January 22nd

12:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America"
David Kennedy

1:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"1812: The Navy's War"
George Daughan

3am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion"
Jean Baker

4:15am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Founding Rivals - Madison vs. Monroe: The Bill of Rights and the Election That Saved a Nation"
Chris DeRose

6am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World
Leslie Crutchfield; John Kania

7:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 19 min.
"British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement: The West's Secret Pact to Get Mideast Oil"
Edwin Black

8:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 44 min.
"Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country in Between"
Jeff Sharlet

10:15am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
Conservative Women's Network Lecture: Marji Ross on "Seven Surprising Secrets of Best-Selling Female Authors...and How Your Future Happiness Might Depend on Them"
Marji Ross

11am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir"
Mark Whitaker

12pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Chris Matthews, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero," hosted by Sam Donaldson, ABC News

1pm (ET)
Approx. 11 min.
University of Chicago Interview: Cathy Cohen, “Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics”
Cathy Cohen

1:15pm (ET)
Approx. 29 min.
University of Texas at Austin Interviews: Steven Weinberg, "Lake Views: This World and the Universe"
Steven Weinberg

1:45pm (ET)
Approx. 10 min.
University of Maryland Interviews: Jon Sumida, "Decoding Clausewitz: A New Approach to 'On War'"
Jon Sumida

2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"The Real Romney"
Michael Kranish

3pm (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions"
Jay Wexler

4pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 44 min.
"Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country in Between"
Jeff Sharlet

6pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
Madam Secretary: A Memoir
Madeleine Albright

7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America"
David Kennedy

8:15pm (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions"
Jay Wexler

9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
After Words: George Nash, ed. "Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath," hosted by Richard Norton Smith, George Mason University

10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 29 min.
"No Fear: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA"
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo

11:30pm (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
Interview with former President Bill Clinton, ""Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy"
Bill Clinton

Monday, January 23rd

12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
After Words: George Nash, ed. "Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath," hosted by Richard Norton Smith, George Mason University

1am (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions"
Jay Wexler

1:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 19 min.
"British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement: The West's Secret Pact to Get Mideast Oil"
Edwin Black

3am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
After Words: George Nash, ed. "Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath," hosted by Richard Norton Smith, George Mason University

4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 26 min.
"Steve Jobs"
Walter Isaacson

5:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World
Leslie Crutchfield; John Kania

6:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"Worm: The first Digital World War"
Mark Bowden

Media Menu for January 11, 2012

2012-01-10T22:09:00.000-08:00

Here are home viewing suggestions for the week, selected from online advanced TV program listings and aligned with the state and national K-12 academic standards available online. Please consult local listings also, since actual broadcast times may vary. The Websites cited in the “Log on“ box below the TV listing provide further details about the show’s topic and may contain links to video clips from the show or a complete streaming video version of the show.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012,
9-11 p.m.
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School

NOVA; Bombing Hitler’s Dams

In 1943, a squadron of British Lancaster bombers staged one of the most audacious raids in history — destroying two gigantic dams in Germany’s industrial heartland and cutting the water supply to arms factories — with a revolutionary bouncing bomb invented by British engineer Barnes Wallis. Wallis and the pilots of 617 Squadron dealt a mighty blow to the German war machine. This documentary re-creates the extreme engineering challenges faced by Wallis and the pilots with the aid of six spectacular experiments. Each represents a technical challenge that the “Dambusters” had to solve to make their mission a success. A team of experts — from dam engineers to explosives specialists — steps into the shoes of the Dambusters. They will adapt a vintage World War II DC4 to carry a bomb the size of an oil drum; train to drop it from a dangerously low altitude in pitch darkness; get it to bounce over obstacles and onto the target; and finally, at a test site in Canada with a 1:6 scale model of one of the German dams, try to repeat history. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/bombing-hitler-dams.html

Thursday, January 12, 2012,
10-10:30 p.m. ET, 7-7:30 p.m.,
Ovation Channel
World History and Arts
Middle and High School

The Iron Lady: An Inside Look at the Visionary Leader

This is a documentary about the making of the currently playing movie biography of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Log on http://www.biography.com/people/margaret-thatcher-9504796

Friday, January 13, 2012,
5-6 p.m.
Science Channel
Science
Middle and High School

Modern Marvels: Ice

The solid form of water has played a key role in fashioning our history and is making its mark as an unusual tool of technology. This documentary explores how Earth's ice originated and recount how ice age glaciers sculpted North America. Cameras take an inside look at Colorado's National Ice Core Repository to see how ice drilled from Antarctica and Greenland is an invaluable archive of past climate, and at a Canadian research lab experts demonstrate the dynamics and dangers of icebergs. See how Greenland's massive ice sheet may be sliding faster than ever toward the sea. Look at how scientists are using Antarctica's ice as a gigantic lens to probe the secrets of the universe and ride aboard everyone's favorite ice resurfacing machine, the Zamboni machine. Other highlights include the search for extraterrestrial ice and a trip inside the studio of an ice artist as he sculpts a masterpiece.
Log on http://www.webmineral.com/data/Ice.shtml

Saturday, January 14, 2012,
7-8 p.m.
Discovery Channel
Science
Middle and High School

Dirty Jobs: Doomsday Seed Banker

Program host Mike Rowe visits the Chicago Botanic Garden to help with the millennium seed bank project that collects and preserves flora seeds from around the world so life can replant itself in case of a catastrophic event. TV-PG
Log on http://www.chicagobotanic.org/research/seed_bank.php and http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/dirtyjobs/about/about.html

Sunday, January 15, 2012,
7-8 p.m.
Planet Green Channel
World History and Technology
Elementary, Middle and High School

The Mystery of the Parthenon

Dominating the skyline of Athens is the ancient Acropolis, once the center of the Greek civilization. This documentary traces the history of the Temple of the Parthenon, from its history of design and construction, to the men involved in its destruction. TV-G
Log on http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110tech/parthenon.html

Monday, January 16, 2012,
10-11 p.m.
PBS
U.S. History and Arts
Elementary, Middle and High School

IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement

Airing in observance of Martin Luther King Day, President and Mrs. Obama host a broadcast concert in the White House East Room in honor of Black History Month. Artists include Yolanda Adams, Joan Baez, Natalie Cole, Bob Dylan, Jennifer Hudson, John Mellencamp, Smokey Robinson, the Blind Boys of Alabama, the Howard University Choir and The Freedom Singers, featuring Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Rutha Harris, Charles Neblett and Toshi Reagon. Morgan Freeman is a guest speaker.TV-G
Log on http://video.pbs.org/video/1410865290

Tuesday, January 17, 2012,
4:15- 6:15 p.m. ET, 1:15 -3:15 p/m.
TCM- Turner Classic Movie Channel
English and U.S. History
Elementary, Middle and High School

THE Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This is a movie version of the classic Mark Twain story of a young troublemaker who tries to help a runaway slave. Director: Michael Curtiz , Cast: Tony Randall, Patty McCormack, Neville Brand
Log on http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/66668/The-Adventures-of-Huckleberry-Finn

Tuesday, January 17, 2012,
8-10 p.m.
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School

CUSTER’S LAST STAND: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

On June 26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, General George Armstrong Custer ordered his soldiers to drive back a large army of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. The battle pitted two larger-than-life antagonists against one another: Sitting Bull, the charismatic and politically savvy leader of the Plains Indians, and Custer, one of the Union’s greatest cavalry officers and a man with a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage. By day’s end, Custer and nearly a third of his army were dead. This biographical documentary about one of the most charismatic and contradictory American leaders of the 19th century takes viewers on a journey from Custer’s memorable charge at Gettysburg, which turned the tide of the battle, to his lonely, untimely death on the windswept plains of the West. Along the way, viewers learn how, time and time again, the supremely ambitious son of a blacksmith ricocheted from triumph to disaster, from battlefield heroism to impetuous escapade. In the end, Custer’s reputation was saved by the wife he adored, who almost single-handedly turned the Battle of the Little Bighorn into one of the most iconic events in American history and mythologized Custer’s role, turning it into a tale of heroic sacrifice against all costs in the service of a country with only the most noble of motives. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/custer/

Wednesday, January 18, 2012,
8- 9 p.m.
Science Channel
English and World History
Middle and High School
Prophets of Science Fiction: H. G. Wells
With stories like The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells established himself as a sci-fi writer of almost clairvoyant talent. But, as shown in this documentary, these tales of hi-tech adventure hold an ominous warning - beware the dark side of progress. TV-PG
Log on http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/

Book TV Schedule

Saturday, January 14th

8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion"
Jean Baker

9:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 29 min.
"The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World"
John Carlos; Dave Zirin

10:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 15 min.
"Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics"
Steven Ross

12pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
2011 Texas Book Festival: Panel on the Arab Spring with Robin Wright, James Zogby, and Austin Bay
Austin Bay; Robin Wright; James Zogby

1pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847"
Winston Groom

2:15pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America"
David Stewart

3:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 15 min.
"Lifeblood: How to Change the World One Dead Mosquito at a Time"
Alex Perry

4:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion"
Jean Baker

6pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Encore Booknotes: "Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement"
John Lewis

7pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir"
Mark Whitaker

8pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America"
David Stewart

9pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"A Soldier's Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq"
William Doyle

10pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Chris Matthews, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero," hosted by Sam Donaldson, ABC News

11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"The Obamas"
Jodi Kantor

Sunday, January 15th

12:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 15 min.
"Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics"
Steven Ross

1:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 17 min.
Memorial Service for Author and Historian John Morton Blum
Multiple Speakers

3am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
2011 Texas Book Festival: Panel on the Arab Spring with Robin Wright, James Zogby, and Austin Bay
Austin Bay; Robin Wright; James Zogby

4am (ET)
Approx. 32 min.
"Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family"
Laurie Sandell

4:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America"
Melissa Harris-Perry

6am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 15 min.
"Lifeblood: How to Change the World One Dead Mosquito at a Time"
Alex Perry

7:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
2011 Paolucci/Bagehot Book Award Dinner: Pauline Maier, "Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788"
Pauline Maier

8:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847"
Winston Groom

9:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"The Obamas"
Jodi Kantor

11am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"A Soldier's Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq"
William Doyle

12pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Jack Abramoff, "Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist," hosted by Eliza Newlin Carney, CQ Roll Call

1pm (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
George Washington University Interview: Benjamin Hopkins, "The Making of Modern Afghanistan"
Benjamin Hopkins

1:35pm (ET)
Approx. 19 min.
George Mason University Interviews: Suzanne Smith, "To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death"
Suzanne Smith

2pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir"
Mark Whitaker

3pm (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
"Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir"
Dexter King

4pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr."
Jonathan Rieder

5pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin"
Hampton Sides

6pm (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
"Haiti After the Earthquake"
Paul Farmer

7pm (ET)
Approx. 32 min.
"Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family"
Laurie Sandell

7:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"The Obamas"
Jodi Kantor

9pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Chris Matthews, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero," hosted by Sam Donaldson, ABC News

10pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir"
Mark Whitaker

11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America"
David Stewart

Monday, January 16th

12am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Chris Matthews, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero," hosted by Sam Donaldson, ABC News

1am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"A Soldier's Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq"
William Doyle

2am (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
"December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World"
Craig Shirley

3am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Chris Matthews, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero," hosted by Sam Donaldson, ABC News

4am (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
"Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir"
Dexter King

5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr."
Jonathan Rieder

6am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin"
Hampton Sides

7am (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
"Patriot Acts: What Americans Must Do to Save the Republic"
Catherine Crier

Media Menu for January 4, 2012

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Here are home viewing suggestions for the week, selected from online advanced TV program listings and aligned with the state and national K-12 academic standards available online. Please consult local listings also, since actual broadcast times may vary. The Websites cited in the “Log on“ box below the TV listing provide further details about the show’s topic and may contain links to video clips from the show or a complete streaming video version of the show.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012
9-10 p.m.
PBS
_{Science and Geography}
Middle and High School

NOVA: Deadliest Volcanoes

This documentary accompanies scientists who are attempting to discover how likely volcanoes are to erupt, when eruptions might happen and how deadly they could prove to be. Millions of people around the world live in the shadow of active volcanoes. Under constant threat of massive volcanic eruptions, their homes and their lives are daily at risk from these sleeping giants. From Japan’s Mount Fuji to the "Sleeping Giant" submerged beneath Naples to the Yellowstone "supervolcano" in the United States, we will travel with scientists from around the world who are at work on these sites, attempting to discover how likely these volcanoes are to erupt, when it might happen, and exactly how deadly they could prove to be. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/deadliest-volcanoes.html

Thursday, January 5, 2012,
8-9 p.m.
National Geographic Channel
_{Science and Geography}
Middle and High School

Diving into Noah's Flood

In this documentary archaeologist Jeff Rose embarks on a journey to understand how the destructive forces of water might have inspired the biblical story of Noahs Ark and the great flood. Dr. Rose believes that a massive flood once swallowed a landmass as big as Great Britain, created the Persian Gulf and sent tribes of Neolithic people into constant retreat from the ever-rising waters.
Log on http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071120-noah-flood.html

Friday, January 6, 2012,
9-10 p.m.
Science Channel
_{Science and Geography}
Middle and High School

Unearthing Ancient Secrets: Secrets of the Great Plague

In the winter of 1665, the Great Plague swept through London killing a third of its population. But why were some men and women mysteriously resistant to the deadliest disease then known? Through a series of groundbreaking experiments and archaeological discoveries, this documentary reveals how the Great Plague’s super survivors could hold the key to fighting the infectious diseases of the 21st century, and how our own bodies could teach us to outsmart nature's most vicious killers. TV-PG
Log on http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071120-noah-flood.html

Friday, January 6, 2012,
10-11 p.m.
PBS
_{Arts and Geography}
Elementary,Middle and High School

TAVIS SMILEY REPORTS : Dudamel: Conducting a Life

This documentary gives viewers an extraordinary look into the life and artistry of the LA Philharmonic’s charismatic conductor. Gustavo Dudamel is not only the youngest conductor of any major orchestra in the world, but is also being hailed by critics as the most exciting. Dudamel is instrumental in inspiring the launch of the LA Philharmonic’s Youth Orchestra Los Angeles initiative, which provides Los Angeles school children with music education. A student of an internationally acclaimed music program in his native Venezuela, Dudamel is committed to expanding music education in America. The program also profiles some of the remarkable kids whose lives are being transformed by Dudamel’s commitment to free music education for all. TV-G
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/tsr/dudamel-conducting-a-life/dudamels-life-and-career/

Saturday, January 7, 2012,
8-9 p.m.
National Geographic Channel
_{Technology and Economics}
Middle and High School

Ultimate Factories: Porsche

This documentary delivers a behind-the-scenes look at how Porsche builds the Panamera, the company’s first four-door high-performance sports sedan. The new addition to the Porsche family is pushing the company into uncharted territory. In April 2010, the Panamera became the best-selling Porsche model in the United States. Assembled at a state-of-the-art factory in Leipzig, Germany, the facility combines some of the best of modern automotive technology to produce 120 Panameras each day. Our cameras are on the front lines as each car is built with precision and quality, from the installation of the roof to the paint job. We’ll watch as 300 workers custom build Panamera engines … all seven of them based on the amount of power the driver wants.
Log on http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/ultimate-factories/facts-porsche-panamera/

Sunday, January 8, 2012,
8-9 p.m.
TCM-Turner Classic Movie Channel
_{World History And Arts}
Middle and High School

Joan OF Arc

This Oscar-winning movie is based on the true story of a farm girl whose religious faith unites France against British invaders during the Fifteenth Century . Guided by the voices that have spoken to her since she was thirteen, Jeanne travels from her home in Lorraine, at their instruction. The voices have commanded her to lead the French Dauphin Charles VII -- who is the prospective king of France--in battle against the British, first in Orleans but then in successive victories that rally the French people around Jeanne during the Hundred Years War. But Jeanne's growing stature--a threat to the monarchy--and the king's greed lead Charles to trade French autonomy for money. He makes a deal with the British, who then capture Jeanne, imprisoning her and subjecting her to a farcical trial whose only goal, despite the semblance of fairness, is to burn Jeanne at the stake as a heretic. The trial is led by the corrupt, politically motivated Pierre Cauchon who harangues and tortures Jeanne until she is nearly broken. But even her British persecutors cannot stop Jeanne from achieving sainthood with her immortality assured when she is burned at the stake. TV-PG
Log on http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/79785/Joan-of-Arc/articles.html and http://archive.joan-of-arc.org/

Monday, January 9, 2012
4-5 p.m.
Planet Green Channel
_{Geography and U.S. History}
Elementary, Middle and High School
Natural Wonders: The Southern Rockies
As shown in this documentary, the Southern Rockies are an astonishing natural wonder. Rich with the history of Lewis and Clark, native Americans and European trailblazers searching for gold, this area is also teeming with animals in a timeless life-and-death drama. TV-G
Log on http://www.southernrockies.org/

Tuesday, January 10, 2012
4-5 p.m.
History Channel
_Science
Elementary, Middle and High School

Modern Marvels: Heavy Metals

They are elements that occupy a select portion of the periodic table and are so essential to America's economic and military might that they are stored in the National Defense Stockpile in case of all-out war.
In this documentary the heavy metals surveyed include copper, uranium, lead, zinc, and nickel. It also takes a look at superalloys--consisting of steel combined with chromium, cobalt, and dozens of other heavy metals--that resist corrosion and perform increasingly elaborate functions.
Log on http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/educate/scimodule/UnderElem/UnderElem_pdf/ModPerTableST.pdf

Tuesday, January 10, 2012
9-10 p.m.
PBS
_{U.S. History}
Middle and High School

BILLY THE KID: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

This documentary deconstructs the mythology of a notorious western outlaw. On April 28, 1881, 21-year-old Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, just days from being hanged for murder, outfoxed his jailors and electrified the nation with the latest in a long line of daring escapes. Just a few weeks later, the notorious young outlaw was gunned down by an ambitious sheriff. Demonized by the lawman who killed him, the Kid was soon mythologized by a never-ending stream of dime-store romances and later, big-screen dramas. But in all the narratives, Billy the Kid’s real story has been obscured. Born to impoverished Irish immigrants, the Kid led a hardscrabble, itinerant life that became harder still when his mother died of tuberculosis. He came of age in a lawless corner of New Mexico, where an Irish immigrant ring held a vise-like grip on all money-making endeavors and the Mexican population was frequently cheated out of their property without recourse to the courts. Caught in the middle of a many-centuries-old Irish-English conflict playing out on the plains of the Southwest, the Kid captured national attention with his reckless violence. His fascination with Mexican culture, his flair for Spanish and his disdain for the Anglo authorities made him a hero of sorts to the Hispanic community, who hid him when the law came looking and mourned him when he was gone. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/billy-introduction

Wednesday, January 11, 2012
9-11 p.m.
PBS
_{U.S. History}
Middle and High School

NOVA; Bombing Hitler’s Dams

In 1943, a squadron of British Lancaster bombers staged one of the most audacious raids in history — destroying two gigantic dams in Germany’s industrial heartland and cutting the water supply to arms factories — with a revolutionary bouncing bomb invented by British engineer Barnes Wallis. Wallis and the pilots of 617 Squadron dealt a mighty blow to the German war machine. This documentary re-creates the extreme engineering challenges faced by Wallis and the pilots with the aid of six spectacular experiments. Each represents a technical challenge that the “Dambusters” had to solve to make their mission a success. A team of experts — from dam engineers to explosives specialists — steps into the shoes of the Dambusters. They will adapt a vintage World War II DC4 to carry a bomb the size of an oil drum; train to drop it from a dangerously low altitude in pitch darkness; get it to bounce over obstacles and onto the target; and finally, at a test site in Canada with a 1:6 scale model of one of the German dams, try to repeat history. TV-PG
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/bombing-hitler-dams.html

Book TV Schedule

Saturday, January 7th

8am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War"
Tony Horwitz

9am (ET)
Approx. 3 hr.
In Depth: Chris Hedges

12pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 26 min.
"Steve Jobs"
Walter Isaacson

1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"Conquered Into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath That Made the American Way of War"
Eliot Cohen

3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 36 min.
"Founding Rivals - Madison vs. Monroe: The Bill of Rights and the Election That Saved a Nation"
Chris DeRose

5pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War"
Tony Horwitz

6pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Encore Booknotes: Paul Brace & Barbara Hinckley "Follow the Leader: Opinion Polls and the Modern Presidents"
Paul Brace; Barbara Hinckley

7pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President"
Justin Frank

8pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
Conservative Women's Network Lecture: Marji Ross on "Seven Surprising Secrets of Best-Selling Female Authors...and How Your Future Happiness Might Depend on Them"
Marji Ross

8:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
"Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics"
Steven Ross

10pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Jack Abramoff, "Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist," hosted by Eliza Carney, CQ Roll Call

11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 32 min.
"News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and American Media"
Juan Gonzalez; Joseph Torres

Sunday, January 8th

12:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 36 min.
"Founding Rivals - Madison vs. Monroe: The Bill of Rights and the Election That Saved a Nation"
Chris DeRose

2:15am (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
Conservative Women's Network Lecture: Marji Ross on "Seven Surprising Secrets of Best-Selling Female Authors...and How Your Future Happiness Might Depend on Them"
Marji Ross

3am (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
"Patriot Acts: What Americans Must Do to Save the Republic"
Catherine Crier

4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
"Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics"
Steven Ross

5:30am (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
"December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World"
Craig Shirley

6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 19 min.
"Ghosts of Afghanistan: Hard Truths and Foreign Myths"
Jonathan Steele

8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"Conquered Into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath That Made the American Way of War"
Eliot Cohen

9am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World"
Jeremy Rifkin

10am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War"
Tony Horwitz

11am (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President"
Justin Frank

12pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
After Words: Michael Gazzaniga, "Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain," hosted by Sally Satel

1pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
University of Texas at Austin Interviews: Sanford Levinson, "Constitutional Faith"
Sanford Levinson

2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 32 min.
"News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and American Media"
Juan Gonzalez; Joseph Torres

3:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"The Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination & Instability"
James Farwell

5pm (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
"Patriot Acts: What Americans Must Do to Save the Republic"
Catherine Crier

6pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"1812: The War That Forged a Nation"
Walter Borneman

7:15pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 36 min.
"Founding Rivals - Madison vs. Monroe: The Bill of Rights and the Election That Saved a Nation"
Chris DeRose

9pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Jack Abramoff, "Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist," hosted by Eliza Carney, CQ Roll Call

10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"The Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination & Instability"
James Farwell

11:15pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
Conservative Women's Network Lecture: Marji Ross on "Seven Surprising Secrets of Best-Selling Female Authors...and How Your Future Happiness Might Depend on Them"
Marji Ross

Monday, January 9th

12am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Jack Abramoff, "Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist," hosted by Eliza Carney, CQ Roll Call

1am (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President"
Justin Frank

2am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Jerusalem: The Biography"
Simon Sebag Montefiore

3am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Jack Abramoff, "Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist," hosted by Eliza Carney, CQ Roll Call

4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 32 min.
"News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and American Media"
Juan Gonzalez; Joseph Torres

5:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"The Pakistan Cauldron: Conspiracy, Assassination & Instability"
James Farwell

6:45am (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
Conservative Women's Network Lecture: Marji Ross on "Seven Surprising Secrets of Best-Selling Female Authors...and How Your Future Happiness Might Depend on Them"
Marji Ross

7:30am (ET)
Approx. 32 min.
"Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family"
Laurie Sandell