Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army

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The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle

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Civil War Reminiscences by Those Who Were There

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Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

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Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War

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Three Months in the Southern States: April-June, 1863

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The Battle of Shiloh: Personal Recollections from Generals to Privates

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The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville

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The Iron Brigade: The History of the Famous Union Army Brigade During the Civil War

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Lost Soul: A Confederate Soldier In New England

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A German Deserter's War Experience

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Reminiscences of a Rebel: The True Adventures of a Confederate Soldier

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With Grant at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg

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The Stonewall Brigade and Hood’s Brigade: The History of the Most Famous Units in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War

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Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Civil War, June 23 - July 4, 1863

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Life in the Confederate Army

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Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865: Unabridged

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On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864

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Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart

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The French and Indian War: The History and Legacy of the Conflict Between French and British Colonies in North America

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Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

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Antietam: Military Accounts of the Bloodiest Battle in American History

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The Battle of Gettysburg

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The Civil War Collection: The Complete Story of America's Epic Struggle

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Surrender at Appomattox: First-hand Accounts of Robert E. Lee's Surrender to Ulysses S. Grant

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American Hannibal: The Extraordinary Account of Revolutionary Hero Daniel Morgan at the Battle of Cowpens

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Fort Pillow: A Novel of the Civil War

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The Cornfield: Antietam's Bloody Turning Point

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The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta

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Blood: Stories of Life and Death From The Civil War

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Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-61: Unabridged

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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Land of Delusion: Out on the edge with the crackpots and conspiracy-mongers remaking our shared reality

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

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Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett

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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition

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The Untold History of the United States

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

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UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There

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John Adams

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Sins of the Founding Father: George Washington, the Indigenous Tribes, and the Decisions that Shaped America’s Future

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Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001

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Up From Slavery

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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

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The Wright Brothers

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1776

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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson And The Opening Of The American West

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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#49 ARTILLERY: In which we cover the third Civil War combat arm: the artillery.

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#323- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Ninth): "in retreat, double-quick, run!"

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#04 NULLIFICATION CRISIS: In which we discuss the Tariff of Abominations, the Nullification Crisis of 1832/33, and we wonder who had the pre-Civil War era's most impressive head of hair: John C Calhoun or Andrew Jackson. Plus, Manifest Destiny beckons & we set the stage...

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#324- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Tenth): "go like hell"

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#02 SLAVERY & POLITICS: In which we take a look back at American history to see how slavery, even from the colonial period, played a major role in shaping & defining the country's political landscape. 

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#03 MISSOURI COMPROMISE: In which we take a look at the crisis surrounding Missouri's admission into the Union as a slave state, and Henry Clay's pivotal role in brokering the ensuing compromise in 1820. 

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#317- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Third): "the devil's to pay"

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#51 GONE FOR A SOLDIER: In which we look at why Northern & Southern men signed up to fight at the beginning of the Civil War.

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#321- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Seventh): "the action had now commenced in real earnest"

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#320- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Sixth): "hearing that a supply of shoes was to be obtained in gettysburg"

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10: Dueling, Life Sucks at Valley Forge, von Steuben's Cool & the Battle of Monmouth

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147 Don Hagist, British Soldiers, American War: What about the British Redcoats? When we discuss the military history of the American War for Independence, we tend to focus on specific battles or details about the men who served in George Washington’s Continental Army. Rarely do we take the...

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#299 GETTYSBURG (Part the Third): In which we look at Robert E Lee's reasons for launching an offensive strike north into Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863. 

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#50 CONTRABANDS / BIG BETHEL: In which we discuss the decision to declare runaway slaves "contraband of war," and then we look at the Battle of Big Bethel which took place on June 10, 1861.

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#40 ROBERT E LEE: In which we use this episode to give a short biography of Robert E Lee's life, up to April 1861 when he resigned his commision in the U.S. Army and took command of Virginia's military forces.

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#37 SIEGE OF WASHINGTON (Part the First): In which we relate the events in the dark days of April 1861, when Washington DC was cut off from the loyal states of the North.

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#38 SIEGE OF WASHINGTON (Part the Second): In which we wrap up our discussion of the dark days in April 1861 when Washington, DC was cut off from the North and in danger from Confederate invasion. 

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#36 SECESSION! PART DEUX: In which we talk about Abraham Lincoln's April 15th call for 75,000 militia to suppress the rebellion, and the subsequent secession of Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, & North Carolina.

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#318- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Fourth): "a heavy task was before us"

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#325- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Eleventh): "no one ever received a more important command"

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#24 "REBELLION THUS SUGAR-COATED": In which we continue our discussion by asking if the southern states had a right to secede, or if secession was rebellion. Then, we look at the message the secession commissioners spread throughout the South in late 1860/early 1861. Our book...

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#322- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Eighth): "we went down at them pretty lively and captured a good many"

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#89 FORTS HENRY & DONELSON (Part the First): In which we give the background to Ulysses S. Grant's February, 1862 campaign to capture Forts Henry & Donelson in northern Tennessee.

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Dutch Manhattan - The Sheriff Comes to Town | 4

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#91 FORTS HENRY & DONELSON (Part the Third): In which we look at the Federal timberclads' dramatic raid up the Tennessee River, and Albert Sidney Johnston's controversial decision to reinforce- but not to fully commit to the defense of- Fort Donelson.

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#62 CIVIL WAR MEDICINE (Part the Second): In which we continue our discussion of medical issues affecting Civil War soldiers.  In this episode we look at what happened to a soldier after he was wounded on the battlefield.

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#43 FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE / THE PHILIPPI RACES: In which we look at the clash between Union & Confederate forces at Fairfax Court House in northeast Virginia on June 1, 1861... and the Union surprise attack at Philippi in northwest Virginia on June 3. 

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#05 MEXICAN WAR (Part the First): In which we look at how tensions rose along the U.S.'s southern border, and then discuss how hostilities with Mexico commenced in April 1846.

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Flags of Our Fathers: One of the most iconic photographs of all time is the famous Joe Rosenthal photo of the raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi in the southwest corner of Iwo Jima. In Flags of Our Fathers, director Clint Eastwood weaves together the story of...

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#68 "BATTLE OF THE HEMP BALES": In which we discuss the successful siege of Lexington by Sterling Price's Missouri State Guard in September, 1861.