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

Audiobook

The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution

Audiobook

Jack Hinson's One-Man War

Audiobook

Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

Audiobook

The Battle of Gettysburg

Audiobook

The Coming Fury: The Centennial History of the Civil War

Audiobook

The Civil War: Exploring History One Week at a Time

Audiobook

Lost Soul: A Confederate Soldier In New England

Audiobook

The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln's General, Master Builder of the Union Army

Audiobook

Letters from Lee's Army: Or Memoirs of Life in and Out of the Army in Virgi

Audiobook

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Openin

Audiobook

Lincoln's Pathfinder: John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856

Audiobook

A Diary from Dixie

Audiobook

Jackson

Audiobook

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

Audiobook

Frank and Jesse James in the Civil War: The History of the Bushwhackers Who Became Outlaws of the Wild West

Audiobook

A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific

Audiobook

Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang

Audiobook

The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy

Audiobook

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

Audiobook

Civil War Reminiscences by Those Who Were There

Audiobook

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

Audiobook

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

Audiobook

Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea

Audiobook

Antietam: Military Accounts of the Bloodiest Battle in American History

Audiobook

Lee: A Biography

Audiobook

Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of the Civil War

Audiobook

Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

Audiobook

Through Blood and Fire at Gettysburg: General Joshua L. Chamberlain and the 20th Main

Audiobook

Long Time Gone: Neighbors Divided by Civil Way

Audiobook

Mosby's Rangers: A Record Of The Operations Of The Forty-Third Battalion Virginia Cavalry, From Its Organization To The Surrender

Audiobook

From Blood and Ash

Audiobook

The House in the Cerulean Sea

Audiobook

Twisted Love

Audiobook

Divine Rivals: A Novel

Audiobook

A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive

Audiobook

If He Had Been with Me

Audiobook

And Then There Were None

Audiobook

The Overstory

Audiobook

Small Mercies: A Novel

Audiobook

Local Woman Missing

Audiobook

Pet Sematary

Audiobook

Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly

Audiobook

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Audiobook

Fairy Tale

Audiobook

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Audiobook

Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Multi-Voice, A: The Bad Beginning

Audiobook

Nothing to See Here

Audiobook

The Institute: A Novel

Audiobook

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Audiobook

The Paris Apartment: A Novel

Audiobook

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Audiobook

The Bell Jar

Audiobook

Good Girls Don't

Audiobook

How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

Audiobook

What Lies Between Us

Audiobook

The Year of Magical Thinking

Audiobook

The Ivy League Counterfeiter

Audiobook

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

Audiobook

In Five Years: A Novel

Audiobook

A Stolen Life: A Memoir

Podcast episode

128 Alan Taylor, American Revolutions: A Continental History: Historians often portray the American Revolution as an orderly, if violent, event that moved from British colonists’ high-minded ideas about freedom to American independence from Great Britain and the ratification of the Constitution of 1787. But...

Podcast episode

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...

Podcast episode

Gallipoli: James and Sean discuss the 1981 Australian film Gallipoli, which tells the story of a group of Australian young men who are introduced to the horrors of war at the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli.

Podcast episode

#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. 

Podcast episode

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

Podcast episode

#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...

Podcast episode

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

Podcast episode

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

Podcast episode

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

Podcast episode

#319- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Fifth): "the enemy are advancing in strong force"

Podcast episode

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

Podcast episode

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

Podcast episode

#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.

Podcast episode

#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.

Podcast episode

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

Podcast episode

#66 WILSON'S CREEK (Part the First): In which we discuss the activities and maneuvering of both sides prior to the Battle of Wilson's Creek (August 10, 1861) in southwest Missouri.

Podcast episode

#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. 

Podcast episode

#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. 

Podcast episode

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

Podcast episode

273 | Elliot Ackerman: Reckoning with America's End in Afghanistan: Elliot Ackerman, author of The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan and 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, returns to The Realignment near the first anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul to discuss how the war reshaped American society, the pivot to Great Power competition, and his service during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as a Marine/CIA officer.

Podcast episode

#316- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Second): "my god- you are not going to fire here, are you?"

Podcast episode

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

Podcast episode

#32 LINCOLN'S INAUGURATION: In which we look at Abraham Lincoln's inaugural journey from Illinois to Washington, D.C. and then his inauguration as the sixteenth President of the United States on March 4, 1861. 

Podcast episode

Bill O'Reilly | Killing the Witches: James and Bill O'Reilly embark on a harrowing journey back to the Salem Witch Trials through O'Reilly's latest book, "Killing The Witches." The discussion unveils the madness of the era, the emergence of a young Benjamin Franklin, and the profound impact of unchecked religious fervor on the course of American history.

Podcast episode

Lincoln on Infrastructure: Known in history for his role in ending slavery and prosecuting the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln's most important issue in his time as an elected official was infrastructure. And in that, he was little different than his pioneer constituents. In this episode, we talk about Lincoln's roots, his arguments countering objections to improvement projects (that have relevance today), and how it shaped slavery and other political issues of his time.

Podcast episode

#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.

Podcast episode

#65 MAYHEM IN MISSOURI (Part the Second): In which we continue our look at the mayhem that broke out in Missouri at the start of the Civil War.  In this episode we cover the 'Battle of Carthage,' and set the stage for the Battle of Wilson's Creek.

Podcast episode

Millard Fillmore: Teaching the obscure presidents: Should we teach the presidency of Millard Fillmore? What do we lose if we don't? Historians Jean Baker and James McPherson, along with Washington Post education reporter T. Rees Shapiro, tackle these questions in our 13th episode.

Podcast episode

#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.

Podcast episode

69. North Carolina: How Quakers Shaped the State with Lee Ann Miller: In this episode, Lee Ann Miller joins Sharon to hear the connection between Edward R. Murrow, famous American Broadcast Journalist, and a North Carolina Quaker community.