Brian Keough, head of the SUNY Albany Library M.E. Grenander Special Collections and Archives, talked about the library’s unique collection of death penalty books and artifact, detailing the over 16,000 death penalty cases in the history of the United States.
C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2012 LCV Cities Tour” in Albany, New York to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Time Warner Cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2.