First Ladies: Influence & Image (2013)

Country

United States

How it feels

This series covers the lives and influences of U.S. first ladies through interviews with experts and historians. Each episode focuses on a different woman, exploring her background and role during her husband's presidency. The show also includes viewer questions and archival footage.

educationalconversationalformalhistoricalrespectfulinformativeslow-pacedscholarly

What happens

First Ladies: Influence & Image is a 35-episode American television series produced by C-SPAN that originally aired from February 25, 2013 to February 10, 2014. Each episode originally aired live and looked at the life and times of one or more of the first ladies of the United States. Episodes featured interviews with historians, journalists, and other experts; included footage of locations significant to the featured first lady and interviews with several contemporary first ladies; and incorporated calls and tweets from viewers. C-SPAN has archived all video from the series to its website. It was produced in cooperation with the White House Historical Association, and was hosted by C-SPAN co-CEO Susan Swain. In April 2015, PublicAffairs Books published the companion book First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women by Swain and C-SPAN. The network began re-airing the TV series on C-SPAN3 in April 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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