C-SPAN2 schedule live

Public affairs events, congressional hearings, speeches, and interviews.

Washington University hosts a series of lectures called 1776: Then and Now. This lecture looks at why Thomas Jefferson owned a Qur'an and how he studied Islam.

C-SPAN visits the Golden Spike Site at Promontory, Utah, where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads joined to mark the completion of the first transcontinental railroad

Captain Elmar Bornkessel welcomes C-SPAN aboard the German sail training ship Gorch Fock while in Baltimore Harbor for America's 250th birthday celebrations. Sailors demonstrate se

Before Lyndon Johnson deployed American troops into Vietnam, the CIA led a coup overthrowing the South Vietnamese government. Jack Cheevers (Kennedy's Coup) chronicles John Kennedy

This 1961 U.S. Army Pictorial Center film explained the ideological differences between the U.S. and USSR. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century arch

Historians at Shenandoah University's McCormick Civil War Institute discuss Civil War history.

C-SPAN tours the collections of racing vehicles and memorabilia at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, located within the racetrack, famously nicknamed The Brickyard.

Psychologist Darby Saxbe describes how men's brains change with fatherhood. Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C., hosts this event.

Dr. Mary Fariba Afsari describes her career as an OB-GYN and the state of women's healthcare. Brookline Booksmith in Massachusetts hosts this event.

New York Times staff photographer Doug Mills shares stories from his career covering the White House going back to the Reagan Administration and talks about the photo of the attemp

Filmmaker and author Pauline Steinhorn discusses her mother's and grandmother's fight to survive Nazi forced-labor and concentration camps during the Holocaust.

Participants discuss the bestselling books of 1776 including Thomas Paine's Common Sense, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall

Author Gloria Steinem ("The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion") chronicles her life and career through a collection of

Hillsdale College government professor Matthew Spalding discusses his book The Making of the American Mind: The Story of Our Declaration of Independence, which was awarded the 2026

Former University of Southern California president Max Nikias talks about his life and leadership at the Los Angeles-based institution.