TiVo alert for tonight:
Regular Ticket readers know of our enduring admiration for C-SPAN's enduring contributions and value to the flow of information in a modern operating democracy. Which the U.S. may become someday.
Take just C-SPAN's video archive alone, every C-SPAN program ready for viewing and searching by name and subject, back to 1987, all free online and bookmarkable right here.
Now comes the latest major video project in the network's long history, a 90-minute documentary on the 211-year-old Library of Congress, the unique institution that so many think is merely a library for Congress.
It's much more, of course. See a video excerpt below of the new C-SPAN program, which debuts tonight at 5 and 8 p.m. Pacific
If you took one minute to look at every photograph stored in the Library, you'd spend 24 years looking at stored photographs. Like the one above of the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. That was also the last time a U.S. passenger train was on time.
Ten minutes to pore over each map in the Library? 100+ years. Or a day with each book on the Library of Congress' shelves? If you started today, that would take the next 60,000 years and bipartisanship still wouldn't be in Washington fashion when you finished.
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