The First Battle of Bull Run

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Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac

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The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

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

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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

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

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

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

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The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution

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Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (version 2)

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

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The Peninsula Campaign: The History and Legacy of the Union’s Failed Attempt to Capture Richmond in 1862

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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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Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea

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The Battle of Gettysburg

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The Iron Brigade and Stonewall Brigade: The History of the Civil War’s Most Famous Brigades

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

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Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac

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General Sherman's Christmas: Savannah, 1864

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Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs

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Shiloh: A Novel

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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War

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After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace

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First Over There: The Attack on Cantigny, America's First Battle of World War I

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Shiloh, 1862

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NPR American Chronicles: The Military History Collection

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The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution

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

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Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command

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Gettysburg

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The Book of Five Rings

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The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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

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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

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Razorblade Tears: A Novel

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel

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The Secret History of the World

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All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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The Overstory

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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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The Korean War: A History

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Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception

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Small Mercies: A Novel

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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 Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

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An American Marriage: A Novel

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On Palestine

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

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

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Leave the World Behind: A Novel

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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

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

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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The Story of Art Without Men

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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

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TEXAS RANGERS Ep. 4 | "Comanche Moon": The end of the Mexican-American War brings great change to the Texas Rangers. Heroes have been buried; the old captains move on; and new leaders emerge. The U.S. army builds two lines of forts in Texas and finally creates a star-studded regiment of...

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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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Episode 2: Day of Days (with John Orloff and Richard Loncraine)

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68: Sherman's March to the Sea and the Thirteenth Amendment

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The Band of Brothers Podcast Is Coming Soon

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Ep. 5: Maj James Howard, USAAF, P-51B Mustang, 9th Air Force, World War 2

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Lecture 23 - Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor: Professor Blight begins this lecture in Washington, where the passage of the first Reconstruction Act by Congressional Republicans radically altered the direction of Reconstruction. The Act invalidated the reconstituted Southern legislatures, establishing five military districts in the South and insisting upon black suffrage as a condition to readmission. The eventful year 1868 saw the impeachment of one president (Andrew Johnson) and the election of another (Ulysses S. Grant). Meanwhile, southern African Americans struggle to reap the promises of freedom in the face of economic disempowerment and a committed campaign of white supremacist violence. Transcript Lecture Page

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Episode 8: The Last Patrol (with Scott Grimes)

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S2E2: Captain Marion Carl, USMC, F4F Wildcat pilot, Navy Cross at Midway and Guadalcanal, World War 2

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Episode 7: The Breaking Point (with Donnie Wahlberg)

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Capitals of Texas, Part 1 (Episode 4, pt. 1): The Podcast About Texas History

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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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Episode 6: Bastogne (with Shane Taylor)

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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.

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Episode 5: Crossroads (with Erik Jendresen)

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#448- THE HARPER'S FERRY SKEDADDLERS

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Episode 4: Replacements (with Frank John Hughes)

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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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Episode 3: Carentan (with Capt. Dale Dye and Matthew Settle)

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

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158 The Revolutionaries' Army: Between 1775 and 1783, an estimated 230,000 men served in the Continental Army with another approximately 145,000 men serving in state militia units. Who were the men who served in these military ranks? What motivated them to take up arms and join the...

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‘Robert E. Lee: A Life’, with Dr. Allen Guelzo

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

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#327- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Thirteenth): "will our army be whipped?"

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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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Best of - David McCullough, Stephen Ambrose and David Herbert Donald: Time Travelers: It is the rare writer who can make history so compelling, so alive, that people will flock to read it. David McCullough, who died last Sunday, was one of those writers. He was the author of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books: one about President Harry Truman and one about President John Adams. In honor of Mr. McCullough, we are reposting this episode from 2020 which featured him and two other great presidential historians: Stephen Ambrose and David Herbert Donald. They talk here about their subjects as if they had gone back in time and returned, breathless, to share the stories they'd heard. And each writer explains how he fell under the spell of history and made it his life's work.

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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...

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Episode 9: Why We Fight (with Ross McCall & John Orloff)

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Lecture 25 - The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877": This lecture focuses on the role of white southern terrorist violence in brining about the end of Reconstruction. Professor Blight begins with an account the Colfax Massacre. Colfax, Louisiana was the sight of the largest mass murder in U.S. history, when a white mob killed dozens of African Americans in the April of 1873. Two Supreme Court decisions would do in the judicial realm what the Colfax Massacre had done in the political. On the same day as the Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court offered a narrow reading of the 14th Amendment in the Slaughterhouse cases, signaling a judicial retreat from the radicalism of the early Reconstruction years. The Cruikshank case, two years later, would overturn the convictions of the only three men sentenced for their involvement in Colfax, and marked another step away from reconstruction. Professor Blight concludes with the Panic of 1873 and the seemi

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