Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac

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

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

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

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Conquered: Why the Army of Tennessee Failed

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

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

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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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Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War

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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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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam

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Shiloh, 1862

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The Battle of Gettysburg

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The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution

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A Worse Place than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation

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A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War

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Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg--And Why It Failed

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Lincoln and His Admirals

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A Stillness at Appomattox

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Grant

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April 1865: The Month That Saved America

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The War Before Independence: 1775-1776

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Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace

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The Great "What Ifs" of the American Civil War: Historians Tackle the Conflict's Most Intriguing Possibilities

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American General: The Life and Times of William Tecumseh Sherman

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Germantown: A Military History of the Battle for Philadelphia, October 4, 1777

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The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution

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John Haslet's World: An Ardent Patriot, the Delaware Blues, and the Spirit of 1776

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The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

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The Battle of Kings Mountain: Eyewitness Accounts: The Battle That Turned The Tide of the American Revolution

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NPR American Chronicles: The Military History Collection

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

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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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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

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

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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream

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

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

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

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John Adams

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

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1776

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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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Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition

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

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The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

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The Wright Brothers

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The Untold History of the United States

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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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

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

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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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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

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Dragonfire: Four Days That (Almost) Changed America

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The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

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

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You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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#291- VICKSBURG (Part the Fifteenth): In which we look at the decisive clash of the Vicksburg Campaign- the Battle of Champion Hill, which took place on May 16, 1863.

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#06 MEXICAN WAR (Part the Second): In which we continue our discussion of America's war with Mexico. We talk about the military action in California & New Mexico, then cover a battle in Congress over something called the Wilmot Proviso. Finally, we move back down to the Rio Grande,...

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

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#448- THE HARPER'S FERRY SKEDADDLERS

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Gary W. Gallagher: Civil War Myths and Misinformation

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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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Lecture 17 - Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War: Professor Blight begins his lecture with a description of the sea change in Civil War scholarship heralded by the Social History revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. Along with a focus on the experience of the common solider, women, and African Americans, a central component of this shift in scholarly emphasis was an increased interest in the effects of the war on the Union and Confederate home fronts. After suggesting some of the ways in which individual Americans experienced the war, Professor Blight moves to a discussion of the war's effect on industry and economics, North and South. The lecture concludes with a description of the increased activism of the federal government during the war, an activism that found expression in finance, agriculture, taxation, building railroads, and, most importantly, in emancipation. Transcript Lecture Page

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

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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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#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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#303- GETTYSBURG (Part the Seventh): In which Joe Hooker decides to do something about the concentration of rebel cavalry under Jeb Stuart at Culpeper.

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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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#34 FORT SUMTER (Part the Fourth): "AND THE WAR CAME": In which we discuss Lincoln's relief expedition to Fort Sumter, the Confederate government's decision to reduce the fort, and the opening shot of the bombardment on April 12, 1861. 

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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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#23 SECESSION FEVER: In which we look at how seven southern states withdrew from the Union between Abraham Lincoln's election and his inauguration.  We answer the question: What was behind the secession of these states?

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Lecture 15 - Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy: Professor Blight follows Robert E. Lee's army north into Maryland during the summer of 1862, an invasion that culminated in the Battle of Antietam, fought in September of 1862. In the wake of Antietam, Abraham Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, a document that changed the meaning of the war forever. Professor Blight suggests some of the ways in which Americans have attempted to come to grips with the enigmatic Lincoln, and argues that, in the end, it may be Lincoln's capacity for change that was his most important characteristic. The lecture concludes with the story of John Washington, a Virginia slave whose concerted action suggests the central role American slaves played in securing their own freedom. Transcript Lecture Page