Media Menu for January 17, 2012

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.

Thursday,  January 17,  2012
9:30-10 p.m. E/P
PBS
Science and Geography

Elementary, Middle and High School

This American Land
Airing on KLCS, this geography documentary covers  how beaver dams help improve streams; how electric eels communicate. Also: a pilot program in Florida that pays ranchers to store water in their low-lying lands and a nature audit at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Log on http://www.thisamericanland.org

Friday,  January 18,  2012
9-11 p.m. E/P
History Channel
U.S. History
Middle and High School

The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents: Hail to the Chief 1945-1964/Mantle of Power 1965-2013

This is a broadcast  of the final 2 episodes of a documentary miniseries about  U.S. Presidential history. In 1945, at the end of a devastating global war, America emerged as a superpower. The Cold War presented the nation with a new and unprecedented crisis: the threat of nuclear annihilation. The country looked to the President to keep them safe during these dangerous times. The struggle against the spread of communism abroad, and the corrosive effects of inequality at home, demanded a new resolve and a steadfast international leader. Since the mid 1960s, the power of the presidency has risen and fallen. It's been burdened by the personal failings of the men who occupied the office; by a Congress determined to reassert its power; by a skeptical and fragmented media; and by a public that had grown indifferent. The Cold War ended, but global terror networks rose to present a more complicated threat. Despite these new challenges, the power of the office has grown substantially--remaining the shining symbol of America s noble experiment in democracy. TV-PG
Log on http://www.history.com/shows/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-presidents

Saturday,  January  19,  2012
8-9 p.m. E/P
CNN
U.S. History
High School

Fareed Zakaria GPS Special: Memo to the President: Roadmap for a 2nd Term

From a massive deficit to Health Care to entitlement reform, President Obama faces a daunting set of challenges in his second term. How best to deal with the nation's problems?  In this news-documentary reporter Fareed Zakaria sits down with top former officials for their advice and ideas.
Log on http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com

Sunday,  January  20,  2012
9-10 p.m. E/P
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School

National Civil Rights Museum's 2012 Freedom Award

Airing on KLCS on eve of Martin Luther King Day, this is a broadcast of highlights from the National Civil Rights Museum's 2012 Freedom Award ceremony in Memphis. Honorees include Marlo Thomas; Dr. Bernard Lafayette, one of the 1961 Freedom Riders; micro-loan pioneer Muhammad Yunis; and Drs. Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis and George Jenkins. Included: a performance by Patti LaBelle. Host: Holly Robinson Peete
Log on http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/

Monday,  January  21,  2012
11 a.m. -2 p.m. ET, 8-11 a.m. PT
PBS
U.S. History
Elementary,Middle and High School

Inauguration 2013: A Special Report

President Barack Obama is sworn into office for his second term by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts; Vice President Joe Biden is sworn in by Justice Sonia Sotomajor. The theme of the day is "Faith in America's Future." Analysis is offered by Mark Shields and David Brooks (New York Times); and presidential historians Richard Norton Smith, Beverly Gage and Annette Gordon-Reed. Anchors: Gwen Ifill; Judy Woodruff.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/history/inauguration_01-03.htm

Tuesday,  January  22,  2012
6-7 p.m. E/P
History Channel
U.S. History and Geography
Middle and High School

Cities Of The Underworld: Washington, DC: Seat of Power

Washington D.C. is headquarters for one of the most powerful governments in the world. Decisions that reverberate around the world are made here. Viewers of this documentary will  learn about what goes on underneath the streets of our nation's capital. Discover high-tech super bunkers, the underbelly of Capital Mall and DC's subterranean defenses. Host Don Wildman shows how the U.S. prepares for the worst, from the ravages of disease to nuclear catastrophe.  TV-PG
Log on  http://www.tv.com/shows/cities-of-the-underworld/washington-dc-seat-of-power-1192617/

Wednesday,  January  23,  2012
9-10  p.m. E/P
PBS
U.S. History and Technology
Middle and High School

NOVA:  Rise Of The Drones

The technologies behind drone aircraft are investigated in this documentary. The planes can be as large as a jumbo jet or as small as a bird; and can kill enemy combatants. Included: remarks from Abe Karem, who was instrumental in the development of the Predator aircraft.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/rise-of-the-drones.html

Book TV Schedule

Saturday, January 19th

8am (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"An Intriguing Life: A Memoir of War, Washington, and Marriage to an American Spymaster" 
Cynthia Helms

9am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 21 min.
"The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates" 
Howard Bloom

10:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 27 min.
"An American Diplomat in Franco Spain" 
Michael Aaron Rockland

12pm (ET)
Approx. 8 min.
2013 Key West Literary Seminar: Paul Hendrickson, "Hemingway's Boat" 
Paul Hendrickson

12:08pm (ET)
Approx. 13 min.
2013 Key West Literary Seminar: Robert Richardson, "In Search of Lost Time: Biography and Fiction" 
Robert Richardson

12:21pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
2013 Key West Literary Seminar - Panel: "How Far Can the Facts Take Us?" 
Rosalind Brackenbury; Pico Iyer; Julie Salamon; Colm Toibin

1:18pm (ET)
Approx. 37 min.
2013 Key West Literary Seminar: Geoff Dyer, "The Novelistic Essay & the Essayistic Novel" 
Geoff Dyer

1:55pm (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
2013 Key West Literary Seminar - Panel: "The Biographer as Autobiographer and the Limits of Objectivity" 
Jay Parini; Phyllis Rose; Edmund White; Brenda Wineapple

3pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Words from the White House: Words and Phrases Coined or Popularized by America's Presidents" 
Paul Dickson

4pm (ET)
Approx. 40 min.
"Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc - The Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way Across Europe" 
Patrick O'Donnell

4:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola" 
Ricardo Cortes

6pm (ET)
Approx. 
Encore Booknotes: Liz Trotta, "Fighting for Air: In the Trenches with Television News" 
Liz Trotta

7pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America" 
Wenonah Hauter

8pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
"If Not Us, Who?: William Rusher, 'National Review,' and the Conservative Movement" 
David Frisk

9pm (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
"The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South" 
Bruce Levine

9:30pm (ET)
Approx. 24 min.
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Stephanie McCurry, "Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South" 
Stephanie McCurry

10pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
After Words: Clayborne Carson, "Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.," hosted by author Janet Langhart Cohen

11pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data" 
Charles Wheelan

Sunday, January 20th

12am (ET)
Approx. 8 min.
2013 Key West Literary Seminar: Paul Hendrickson, "Hemingway's Boat" 
Paul Hendrickson

12:08am (ET)
Approx. 13 min.
2013 Key West Literary Seminar: Robert Richardson, "In Search of Lost Time: Biography and Fiction" 
Robert Richardson

12:21am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
2013 Key West Literary Seminar - Panel: "How Far Can the Facts Take Us?" 
Rosalind Brackenbury; Pico Iyer; Julie Salamon; Colm Toibin

1:18am (ET)
Approx. 37 min.
2013 Key West Literary Seminar: Geoff Dyer, "The Novelistic Essay & the Essayistic Novel" 
Geoff Dyer

1:55am (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
2013 Key West Literary Seminar - Panel: "The Biographer as Autobiographer and the Limits of Objectivity" 
Jay Parini; Phyllis Rose; Edmund White; Brenda Wineapple

3am (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
"Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia" 
Thane Gustafson

4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver" 
Mark Shriver

5:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 21 min.
International Summit of the Book - Panel: "The Publishing World Yesterday and Today" 
Mutiple Panelists

7am (ET)
Approx. 26 min.
2012 Miami Book Fair International: Interview with Reyna Grande, "The Distance Between Us" 
Reyna Grande

7:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
Conference on Whittaker Chambers' "Witness" - Panel: "Without Anti-Communism: What Defines Conservatives Today?" 
Peter Berkowitz; Norman Podhoretz; Alfred Regnery

8:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time" 
Jeff Speck

10am (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
"The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South" 
Bruce Levine

10:45am (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
2012 Miami Book Fair International: Panel with Candice Millard, David Nasaw, and Les Standiford 
Candice Millard; David Nasaw; Les Standiford

12pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Michael Austin, "That's Not What They Meant!: Reclaiming the Founding Fathers from America's Right Wing," hosted by David Fontana, George Washington University Law School

1pm (ET)
Approx. 22 min.
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: John L. Jackson, Jr., "Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness" 
John L. Jackson, Jr.

1:25pm (ET)
Approx. 19 min.
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Michael X. Delli Carpini, "After Broadcast News: Media Regimes, Democracy, and the New Information Environment" 
Michael X. Delli Carpini

2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
"If Not Us, Who?: William Rusher, 'National Review,' and the Conservative Movement" 
David Frisk

3pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America" 
Wenonah Hauter

4pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data" 
Charles Wheelan

5pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
2012 Paolucci/Bagehot Book Award Dinner: John Fonte, "Sovereignty or Submission" 
John Fonte

6pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860-1861" 
Harold Holzer

7:15pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola" 
Ricardo Cortes

8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 19 min.
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Sarah Gordon, "The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America" 
Sarah Gordon

9pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
After Words: Clayborne Carson, "Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.," hosted by author Janet Langhart Cohen

10pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster"
Jonathan Katz

11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
"If Not Us, Who?: William Rusher, 'National Review,' and the Conservative Movement" 
David Frisk

Monday, January 21st

12am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
After Words: Clayborne Carson, "Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.," hosted by author Janet Langhart Cohen

1am (ET)
Approx. 22 min.
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: John L. Jackson, Jr., "Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness" 
John L. Jackson, Jr.

1:25am (ET)
Approx. 19 min.
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Michael X. Delli Carpini, "After Broadcast News: Media Regimes, Democracy, and the New Information Environment" 
Michael X. Delli Carpini

2am (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"An Intriguing Life: A Memoir of War, Washington, and Marriage to an American Spymaster" 
Cynthia Helms

3am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
After Words: Clayborne Carson, "Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.," hosted by author Janet Langhart Cohen

4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 36 min.
"Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics and Religion" 
Peter Bergen et al.

5:45am (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
"James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier's Story" 
Henry Gallagher

6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 15 min.
"Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News" 
Todd Andrlik

8am (ET)
Approx. 26 min.
"Democracy's Big Day: The Inauguration of Our President, 1789-2013" 
Jim Bendat

8:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 38 min.
"Barack Obama: The Story" 
David Maraniss

10:15am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Words from the White House: Words and Phrases Coined or Popularized by America's Presidents" 
Paul Dickson

11:15am (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"Presidential Power in Troubled Second Terms: A Historical Look at the Second Term" 
Alfred Zacher

12pm (ET)
Approx. 27 min.
"My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers" 
Christine King Farris

12:30pm (ET)
Approx. 26 min.
Interview with Bernice King, "Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King" 
Bernice King

1pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Judgment Days : Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America" 
Nick Kotz

2pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
Encore Booknotes: "Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65" 
Taylor Branch

3pm (ET)
Approx. 28 min.
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Mary Frances Berry, "And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America" 
Mary Frances Berry

3:30pm (ET)
Approx. 2 hr. 58 min.
In Depth: Senator Tom Coburn

6:30pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse" 
Calvin Trillin

7:30pm (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Amy Gutmann, "The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It" 
Amy Gutmann

8pm (ET)
Approx. 26 min.
"Democracy's Big Day: The Inauguration of Our President, 1789-2013" 
Jim Bendat

8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 38 min.
"Barack Obama: The Story" 
David Maraniss

10:15pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Words from the White House: Words and Phrases Coined or Popularized by America's Presidents" 
Paul Dickson

11:15pm (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"Presidential Power in Troubled Second Terms: A Historical Look at the Second Term" 
Alfred Zacher

Tuesday, January 22nd

12am (ET)
Approx. 27 min.
"My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers" 
Christine King Farris

12:30am (ET)
Approx. 26 min.
Interview with Bernice King, "Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King" 
Bernice King

1am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Judgment Days : Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America" 
Nick Kotz

2am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
Encore Booknotes: "Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65" 
Taylor Branch

3am (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
"The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture" 
David Mamet

4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Of Africa" 
Wole Soyinka

5:15am (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
Interview with Manuel Roig-Franzia, "The Rise of Marco Rubio" 
Manuel Roig-Franzia

5:45am (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
"The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South" 
Bruce Levine

6:15am (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
International Summit of the Book - Panel: "The Role of Cultural Institutions in Fostering the Future of the Book" 
Mutiple Panelists

7am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope" 
Cory Booker; Tina Kelley; Kevin Ryan