BACKGROUNDER

Presidential Libraries: History Uncovered
September 7 through November 30, 2007

Each two-hour program airs live Friday nights from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET, on location from one of the presidential libraries. Each program re-airs the same evening at 11 p.m. ET.

SERIES SCHEDULE
September 7:Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, IA
September 14:Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY
September 21:Harry S Truman Presidential Library, Independence, MO
September 28:Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Abilene, KS
October 5:John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, MA
October 12:Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, Austin, TX
October 19:Richard Nixon Presidential Library, Yorba Linda, CA
October 26:Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Ann Arbor, MI
November 2:Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Atlanta, GA
November 9:Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA
November 16:George Bush Presidential Library, College Station, TX
November 30:William J. Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock, AR

Series Executive Producer - Mark Farkas
Mark Farkas has produced many of C-SPAN's major history programs, including American Writers (2001-2), American Presidents (1999), Alexis de Tocqueville: Exploring Democracy in America (1997), and The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1994) and recently The Capitol (2006).

Series Historical Consultant - Richard Norton Smith
Richard Norton Smith has served as director of four National Archives Presidential Libraries: Hoover, Eisenhower, Reagan, and Ford. He was founding director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, IL and the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. The author of numerous political biographies, Mr. Smith is currently a Scholar-in-Residence at George Mason University in Virginia.

Additional information and resources available at www.c-span.org/presidentiallibraries