With Grant at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg

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

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Lost Soul: A Confederate Soldier In New England

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Chancellorsville and Gettysburg: Unabridged

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

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The Lion of Round Top: The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War

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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

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Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas

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

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A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater

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April 1865: The Month That Saved America

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"Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken": Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg: July 4 - 14, 1863

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The Union War

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

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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War

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The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

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Terrible Swift Sword

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Civil War Battles

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American General: The Life and Times of William Tecumseh Sherman

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Lincoln and His Admirals

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Shiloh, 1862

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Gettysburg Voices from the Front

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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam

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“If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania”: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg - Volume 1: June 3–21, 1863

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The Battle of Gettysburg

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Gettysburg

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General George Washington: A Military Life

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In The Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat in Iraq

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Grant

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Recollections of the Civil War

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Red Cloud’s War: The History and Legacy of the Only 19th Century War Won by Native Americans against the United States

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

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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

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

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

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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 Book of Charlie

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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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1776

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Up From Slavery

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The Untold History of the United States

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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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Dragonfire: Four Days That (Almost) Changed America

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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

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

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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The Wright Brothers

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Lafayette in the Somewhat 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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Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition

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Letter from Birmingham Jail

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

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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

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

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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

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Lecture 14 - Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863: Professor Blight lectures on the military history of the early part of the war. Beginning with events in the West, Blight describes the Union victories at Fort Donelson and Fort Henry, introduces Union General Ulysses S. Grant, and narrates the horrific battle of Shiloh, fought in April of 1862. Moving back East, the lecture describes the Union General George McClellan's abortive 1862 Peninsula campaign, which introduced the world to Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. The lecture concludes with Confederate General Robert E. Lee's decision to take the battle to the North. Transcript Lecture Page

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

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

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#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. 

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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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#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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#76 PORT ROYAL SOUND: In which we look at the Battle of Port Royal Sound, South Carolina (November 7, 1861).

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

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

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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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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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Bonus Episode: HORSES & MULES: In which we look at the importance of horses & mules to Civil War armies. Plus, we talk about Robert E Lee's horse- Traveller.

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#82 BELMONT: In which we discuss (among other things) the Battle of Belmont, which took place on November 7, 1861.

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Gary W. Gallagher: Civil War Myths and Misinformation

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#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.

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

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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.

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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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#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.

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Lecture 19 - To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings: Professor Blight uses Herman Melville's poem "On the Slain Collegians" to introduce the horrifying slaughter of 1864. The architect of the strategy that would eventually lead to Union victory, but at a staggering human cost, was Ulysses S. Grant, brought East to assume control of all Union armies in 1864. Professor Blight narrates the campaigns of 1864, including the Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor, and the siege of Petersburg. While Robert E. Lee battled Grant to a stalemate in Virginia, however, William Tecumseh Sherman's Union forces took Atlanta before beginning their March to the Sea, destroying Confederate morale and fighting power from the inside. Professor Blight closes his lecture with a description of the first Memorial Day, celebrated by African Americans in Charleston, SC 1865. Transcript Lecture Page

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

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#448- THE HARPER'S FERRY SKEDADDLERS

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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.

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S2E1: Major John L. Smith, USMC, F4F Wildcat pilot, Guadalcanal, World War 2

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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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Lecture 21 - Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction: In this lecture, Professor Blight begins his engagement with Reconstruction. Reconstruction, Blight suggests, might best be understood as an extended referendum on the meaning of the Civil War. Even before the war's end, various constituencies in the North attempted to control the shape of the post-war Reconstruction of the South. In late 1863, President Abraham Lincoln offered his lenient "Ten Percent Plan." Six months later, Congressional Republicans concerned by Lincoln's charity rallied behind the more radical provisions of the Wade-Davis Bill. Despite their struggle for control over Reconstruction, Congressional Radicals and President Lincoln managed to work together on two vital pieces of Reconstruction legislation in the first months of 1865--the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery in the United States, and the Freedmen's Bureau bill. Transcript Lecture Page

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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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#25 CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA: In which we discuss the birth of the Confederate States of America at Montgomery, Alabama in February 1861.

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