The 54th Massachusetts Regiment

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The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage

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Fighting for America: Black Soldiers-the Unsung Heroes of World War II

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Grant at 200: Reconsidering the Life and Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant

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Jimmy Carter

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Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments that Redeemed America

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Civil Rights Activist John Hope Franklin

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A Rare Recording of Baseball Great Ty Cobb

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We Are All Americans: The American Civil War Retold

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American General: The Life and Times of William Tecumseh Sherman

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Deaf Blind Champion: A True Story of Hope, Inspiration, and Excellence in Sport and Life.

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Summoned to Glory: The Audacious Life of Abraham Lincoln

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Don't Be Discouraged (Unabridged)

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The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War—An Oral History

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Don Perkins: A Champion's Life

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The Last Charge of the Rough Rider: Theodore Roosevelt's Final Days

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Cowboys and Gangsters: Stories of an Untamed Southwest

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Booker T. Washington

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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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Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring

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Chancellorsville and Gettysburg: Booktrack Edition

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Ely Samuel Parker: The Life and Legacy of the Seneca Grand Chief Who Fought in the Civil War and Became Commissioner of Indian Affairs

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Fritz Pollard: Pioneer in Racial Advancement

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In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow

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Warren G. Harding's 1921 Inaugural Address

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Chancellorsville and Gettysburg: Unabridged

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The Tuskegee Airmen

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American: Beyond Our Grandest Notions

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Ulysses S. Grant: The War Years

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The Simple Faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Religion's Role in the FDR Presidency

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Civil War Battles

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Refugee

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A Night Divided

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Little House in the Big Woods

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Little House on the Prairie

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Farmer Boy

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On the Banks of Plum Creek

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Ground Zero

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The Lost Heir (The Gryphon Chronicles, Book 1)

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Iceberg

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Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

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The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (National Book Award Finalist)

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Anne of Green Gables

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Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

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The Long Winter

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Edge of Anarchy: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller

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Love in the Library

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The Wednesday Wars

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How Do You Live?

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By the Shores of Silver Lake

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The Devil's Arithmetic

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I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived #1)

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Little Town on the Prairie

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Allies

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Mark of the Thief (Mark of the Thief, Book 1)

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Inside Out & Back Again

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Resistance

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The Eagle of the Ninth

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These Happy Golden Years

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The Radium Girls: Young Readers' Edition: The Scary but True Story of the Poison that Made People Glow in the Dark

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Words on Fire

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Scott Reynolds Nelson: Civil War Myths and Misinformation

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A Field Guide to White Supremacy with Kathleen Belew

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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

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Gary W. Gallagher: Civil War Myths and Misinformation

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Indian Country Relocation: A One-way Ticket to Poverty: From the early 1950s through the early 1970s, the U.S. government had a program to move Native Americans from reservations to cities. One U.S. official described the initiative as a “one way ticket from rural to urban poverty.”

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Ulysses S Grant

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Ep353: Chuck Negron - Three Dog Night & Beyond: Co-founder of Three Dog Night Chuck Negron discusses the rare records and stories from his career.

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BUTCH & SUNDANCE Ep. 2 | “Rustlers and Robbers”: Bob Parker begins a rustling operation that contributes to the Johnson County War in Wyoming. He adopts the name Butch Cassidy and goes to trial for the alleged theft of a horse. Meanwhile, Sundance lives the life of a drifting cowboy until he robs his first train.

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Lecture 18 - "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad: This lecture probes the reasons for confederate defeat and union victory. Professor Blight begins with an elucidation of the loss-of-will thesis, which suggests that it was a lack of conviction on the home front that assured confederate defeat, before offering another of other popular explanations for northern victory: industrial capacity, political leadership, military leadership, international diplomacy, a pre-existing political culture, and emancipation. Blight warns, however, that we cannot forget the battlefield, and, to this end, concludes his lecture with a discussion of the decisive Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July of 1863. Transcript Lecture Page

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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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76: Reconstruction (Part 4): The Battle of Liberty Place and the Mississippi Plan

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Ron Chernow on 'Grant'

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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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Yascha Mounk Warns Against a Misguided New Ideology

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‘White Space, Black Hood’ with Sheryll Cashin: Residential segregation and unequal allocation of resources continues to play a profound role in areas of concentrated poverty, and conversely, high opportunity. Georgetown law professor Sheryll Cashin has spent decades studying housing and how geography is central to American inequality. In “White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality,” Cashin traces the history of anti-Black residential caste, which she says manifests in three forms: boundary maintenance, opportunity hoarding and stereotype-driven surveillance. She joins to unpack her findings and to share strategies for abolishing state-sanctioned practices that further perpetuate inequities.

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

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57 FDR Special - How FDR Became a Star in the 1924 Presidential Convention: Part 3: Thanks to an unlikely presidential bid, FDR and Al Smith became close allies.

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Rutherford B Hayes

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Lecture 24 - Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption": This lecture opens with a discussion of the myriad moments at which historians have declared an "end" to Reconstruction, before shifting to the myth and reality of "Carpetbag rule" in the Reconstruction South. Popularized by Lost Cause apologists and biased historians, this myth suggests that the southern governments of the Reconstruction era were dominated by unscrupulous and criminal Yankees who relied on the ignorant black vote to rob and despoil the innocent South. The reality, of course, diverges widely from this image. Among other accomplishments, the Radical state governments that came into existence after 1868 made important gains in African-American rights and public education. Professor Blight closes the lecture with the passage of the 15th Amendment, the waning radicalism of the Republican party after 1870, and the rise of white political terrorism across the South. Transcript Lecture

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The Road to Vietnam with Dr Pablo de Orellana: Why did the United States become involved in Viet…

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Bill Walton on David Halberstam’s “The Breaks of the Game”

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Zachary Taylor

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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 193-Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek, FDR’s Warriors

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Bosnia: New Tensions From An Old Conflict: Bosnian-Serb leaders stand accused of stoking nationalist sentiment

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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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Episode 300-The Battle of Yenaungyaung

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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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#01 INTRODUCTION: In which we give an introduction to the podcast, share a bit about ourselves, & discuss why we think the Civil War is still deserving of attention & study today. 

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Pontiac's Rebellion: Native American tribes in the Great Lakes region fight British expansion and rule in their territory