Newburgh Address

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On Maintaining an Army

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Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution

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Washington's Marines: The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution, 1775-1777

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Letter to Touro Synagogue

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Hamilton at War

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A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution

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What the Founding Fathers were Really Like (and What We can Learn from Them Today): (and What We Can Learn From Them Today)

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Young Folks' History of the American Revolution

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Farewell Address

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How a British Subject Became President of the United States

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John Adams: The Man from Massachusetts

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Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams, Vol. 1

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The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775

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Shays’ Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion: The History and Legacy of Early America’s Domestic Insurrections

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Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father

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Washington's Farewell Address

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Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison

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Thomas Jefferson An Autobiography: The Lost Manuscript

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A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

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Tillie Pierce: Teen Eyewitness to the Battle of Gettysburg

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The Life and Times of George Washington and the American Revolution

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A.E.F.: With General Pershing and the American Forces

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The Memoirs of William T. Sherman—Excerpts: Atlanta and the March to the Sea

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Give Me Liberty

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James Madison and the Making of America

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Up From Slavery

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19th Century America’s Most Influential Naval Officers: The Lives, Careers, and Battles of Stephen Decatur, Oliver Hazard Perry, David Farragut, David Dixon Porter, and George Dewey

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A Rare Recording of The Civil War's Confederate Rebel Yell

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Lincoln's Letters and Lincoln's Prose: The Private Man and the Warrior & Major Works by a Great American Writer

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Alamo of the Revolution: Benedict Arnold and the Massacre at Fort Griswold

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

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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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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

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

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The Wright Brothers

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

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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

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

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The Untold History of the United States

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

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1776

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John Adams

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

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

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition

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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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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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

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

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

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

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

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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Hamilton v. Jefferson: The Rivalry That Shaped America

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#1512 Remembering David McCullough with Joseph Ellis: We're joined by longtime contributor to the show, author Joseph Ellis. He and Clay Jenkinson discuss the passing of the noted historian David McCullough. They also discuss the Constitution and what might happen if it is ever re-written. Subscribe to...

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Insurrection of Aaron Burr | The Severance of the Union | 3

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046 John Ferling, Whirlwind: The American Revolution & the War That Won It: Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early American History

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#95 POSTSCRIPT: FORREST'S BREAKOUT: In which we talk a bit about Nathan Bedford Forrest's background and then take a closer look at his escape from Fort Donelson on February 16, 1862.

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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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Lecture 26 - Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory: Having dealt with the role of violence and the Supreme Court in bringing about the end of Reconstruction in his last lecture, Professor Blight now turns to the role of national electoral politics, focusing in particular on the off-year Congressional election of 1874 and the Presidential election of 1876. 1874 saw the return of the Democrats to majority status in the Senate and the House of Representatives, as voters sick of corruption and hurt by the Panic of 1873 fled the Republicans in droves. According to many historians, the contested election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877," which followed it, marked the official end of Reconstruction. After an election tainted by fraud and violence, Republicans and Democrats brokered a deal by which Republican Rutherford B. Hayes took the White House in exchange for restoration of "home rule" for the South. Transcript Lecture Page

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1941 WHITE HOUSE TREE-LIGHTING CEREMONY: PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LIGHTS WHITE HOUSE CHRISTMAS TREE, 1941 (CHRISTMAS) In this historic broadcast direct from the White House, hear FDR's words as he lights the White House Christmas tree, just two weeks or so after the attack on Pearl...

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#96 SIBLEY'S NEW MEXICO CAMPAIGN (Part the First): In which we set the stage for Sibley's New Mexico Campaign by discussing Texas's secession from the Union in February, 1861 and looking at "Baylor's Buffalo Hunt" (May-July, 1861). 

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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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The United States v. Reuben Crandall

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#448- THE HARPER'S FERRY SKEDADDLERS

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#90 FORTS HENRY & DONELSON (Part the Second): In which we discuss the Battle of Fort Henry, which took place on February 6, 1862.

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Part One: How Conservatism Won

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Joan Didion, Conservative (w/ Sam Tanenhaus): Matt and Sam are joined by Sam Tanenhaus to make sense of Joan Didion's conservatism: her Sacramento roots, her early writing for National Review, why she loved Barry Goldwater (and hated Ronald Reagan), and much, much more.

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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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Capitals of Texas part 2: Houston and Austin go to War! (ep. 5): Houston and Austin go to War!

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Woman's Hour: Changing Woman's Lives: From BBC Radio 4: How the war shaped the lives of a generation of women.co.uk/ww1.

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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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#1462 The Cause with Joseph Ellis: This week, an in-depth and revealing conversation with Joseph Ellis about his new book, The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783. You can order Clay's new book at , , , or by contacting your independent...

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Part Two: The Bastards of Forensic Science

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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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We Could Be Heroes (w/ Will Arbery): Matt and Sam have a long chat with Will Arbery, the playwright behind "Heroes of the Fourth Turning," a riveting new play about conservative Catholics in the Trump era.

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Adam Serwer on white political correctness

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Put Everything In the Calm and Mild Light

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BONUS: The Steve Stout Documents

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Tracy K. Smith: In her new book, To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul, poet Tracy K. Smith meditates on who we are as a nation and what we might hope to mean to one another.

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#1300 Better Arguments: "Can we talk? Can we try to argue about where we are and where we're going and use the founders as a source of wisdom that might allow us to have a safe place to meet and to talk about this with civility, but with fervor?" — Joseph J. Ellis Clay and...

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Isocrates' Encomium of Helen (new and improved!): Welcome to MR podcast for beginners and insiders about the people, terms and movements who have shaped rhetorical history. We’re beholden to the humanities media project at the university of Texas for support for this re-recording that sounds so...

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Richard Brookhiser, "Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea" (Basic Books, 2019)