Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Addresses

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Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 2)

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

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Emancipation Proclamation

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The Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary

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The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War

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1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History

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Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1809-1837: Lincoln's Frontier Background Shapes the Future President

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Lincoln's Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months That Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War

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The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics

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Lincoln's Mentors: The Education of a Leader

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April 1865: The Month That Saved America

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Martin Van Buren: A Captivating Guide to the Man Who Served as the Eighth President of the United States

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The Facts of Reconstruction

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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years

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William McKinley: The Life and Legacy of the Third President to Be Assassinated

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The Federalist Papers

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Democracy in America Vol. I

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Tolstoy

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Common Sense

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Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

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Alexander Hamilton

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James Madison and the Making of America

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Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage: Stories of our Most Admired President

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John Quincy Adams

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The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a

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The Silence Dogood Letters

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John Brown

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James Garfield: The Life and Legacy of the Second President to Be Assassinated

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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The 48 Laws of Power

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Behold a Pale Horse

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You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together

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The War on the West

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The White House Plumbers: The Seven Weeks That Led to Watergate and Doomed Nixon's Presidency

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Razorblade Tears: A Novel

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Elon Musk

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Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices

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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

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Nazi Hunting: A Love Story: The husband and wife who, for six decades and counting, have made catching war criminals the family business

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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While Time Remains: A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America

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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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Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation

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Revenge: How Donald Trump Weaponized the US Department of Justice Against His Critics

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The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

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

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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

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Small Mercies: A Novel

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The Overstory

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Enough

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

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

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An American Marriage: A Novel

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William Henry Harrison: Great song, horrible death: Washington Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri, along with Barbara Bair and Dr. Philip Mackowiak, deconstruct Harrison's transformative presidential campaign and debunk the myth of what killed him after only 32 days in office.

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Hamilton: the man behind the musical: We explore the amazing life story of Alexander Hamilton, with Ron Chernow, whose biography of the American Founding Father inspired the hip-hop musical sensation.

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O'Reilly Joins Joe Piscopo to Discuss the Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Climate Change& Reactions to Killing the SS: Bill O'Reilly joins Joe Piscopo's radio show to discuss the Ocasio Cortez's Tweet Relating the Migrants apart of the Caravan to Jews Escaping Germany, The Advancements of Climate Change & Reactions to 'Killing the...

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Ep. 1791 Walter Williams, Hero of Liberty, RIP: Walter Williams, the brilliant economist and syndicated columnist, died this week. With Thomas Sowell he hammered away for decades against the myths about race and economics peddled by the mainstream and by alleged civil-rights organizations. He had...

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Franklin Pierce: Alexis and Elliott delve into the life of a handsome yet disappointing president, number 14, Franklin Pierce. They speak to a presidential grief specialist about how Pierce dealt with a tragic death two months before his inauguration, examine how the...

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How to Stop A Civil War: Jeffrey Goldberg, Danielle Allen, and Adam Serwer discuss how America is coming apart—and how they think it can be reunited.

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John Tyler: Ghosts and the vice presidency: When Vice President Tyler took over the White House, he set a precedent that would forever shape the office. This episode features experts Barbara Bair and Joel Goldstein, as well as descendants who talk about the ghost who haunts the Tyler home.

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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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Amelia Earhart

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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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#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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139. Shelby Steele — Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country & the film What Killed Michael Brown?: The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of progress. Amid the bickering and inertia, the promise of the 1960s—when we came...

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#11 FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW & UNCLE TOM'S CABIN: In which we discuss the Northern reaction to the new Fugitive Slave Law that was part of the Compromise of 1850.  Plus, we look at the significant impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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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.

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Hamilton v. Jefferson: The Rivalry That Shaped America

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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

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Ron Chernow on 'Grant'

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Ron Chernow: Grant: Ulysses S. Grant has for decades routinely listed as one of our worst presidents.

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How Abraham Lincoln And Frederick Douglass’s Unlikely Friendship Changed America

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The Scopes Monkey Trial Pt. 1: Majority Rule: When Darwin published On Human Evolution, theists around the world had to grapple with their faith and this new scientific knowledge.

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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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Lecture 20 - Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic: This lecture begins with a central, if often overlooked, turning point in the Civil War--the re-election of Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Although the concerted efforts of northern Peace Democrats and a palpable war weariness among the electorate made Lincoln's victory uncertain, timely Union victories in Atlanta and Mobile in September of 1864 secured Lincoln's re-election in November. This lecture concludes Professor Blight's section on the war, following Lee and Grant to Appomattox Courthouse, and describing the surrender of Confederate forces. The nature of Reconstruction and the future of the South, however, remained open questions in April of 1865. Transcript Lecture Page

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Lecture 8 - Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58: Professor Blight continues his march through the political events of the 1850s. He continues his description of the aftermath of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, describing the guerilla war that reigned in the territory of Kansas for much of 1856. The lecture continues, describing the caning of Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the US Senate and the birth of the Republican party. The lecture concludes with the near-victory of Republican candidate John C. Fremont in the presidential election of 1856, and the passage of the Dred Scott decision in 1857. Transcript Lecture Page

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Mr. President - John Tyler

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Ep. 0167: Endgame: The Not-So-Civil War Part 13: CJ covers the last phases of the American Civil War, including the collapse of the Confederacy and surrender of Confederate forces.

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CUSTER'S LAST STAND : THE LAST MAN STANDING

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Juneteenth and the Constitution: Why do we celebrate Juneteenth? Martha Jones and Lucas Morel explain and shed light on the history of emancipation and equality in America.

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Ep. 93: Juneteenth (feat. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, D-CA, The granddaughter of a slave)

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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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The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln ~ Full Audiobook: The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln audiobook. After having written and released an initial draft of this proclamation in September of 1862, minor changes were made and Lincoln signed it on January 1st, 1863. It declared free the slaves ...