Alexandria Featured on Book TV and American History TV
C-SPAN networks devoting blocks of programming to segments about the history and literary culture of Alexandria.
Alexandria’s history and literary culture will be featured Saturday and Sunday on Book TV and American History TV on C-SPAN2 and C-SPAN3. Saturday’s Book TV block, which begins at noon on C-SPAN2, features interviews with authors of several books about Alexandria. Michael Lee Pope, a local reporter, discusses his two books—“The Hidden History of Alexandria, DC” and “Shotgun Justice: One Prosecutor’s Crusade Against Crime and Corruption in Alexandria and Arlington.” While discussing “Hidden History,” Pope visits Jones Point, a slave pen located in the basement of the current home of the Northern Virginia Urban League in Old Town and the site of a famous 1826 duel between U.S. Secretary of State Henry Clay and Virginia Senator John Randolph…
