 The programming covers the history of the U.S. from the founding of the nation through the late 20th century.Programs include "American Artifacts", which is dedicated to exploring museums, archives and historical sites, and "Lectures in History", featuring major university history professors giving lectures on U.S. history.In 2009, C-SPAN3 aired an eight-installment series of interviews from the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas, which featured historian Richard Norton Smith and Vice President Walter Mondale, among other interviewees.