Michigan at Antietam: The Wolverine State’s Sacrifice on America’s Bloodiest Day

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The Battle of New Market Heights: Freedom Will Be Theirs by the Sword

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Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863

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The Antietam Campaign

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Big Bethel: The First Battle

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The Battle of Brice's Crossroads

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Fort Harrison and the Battle of Chaffin's Farm: To Surprise and Capture Richmond

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The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle

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The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads: The Civil War's Last Campaign

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Unceasing Fury: Texans at the Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863

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The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 [Illustrated Edition]

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Grant Wins the War: Decision at Vicksburg

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Battle of White Sulphur Springs, The: Averell Fails to Secure West Virginia

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The Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg

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Wisconsin at Antietam: The Badger State’s Sacrifice on America’s Bloodiest Day

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The Bloody First: A History of the 1St Regiment of Virginia Volunteers in the American Civil War

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Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga, September 18, 1863

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Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It

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Passing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Civil War

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Grant's Left Hook: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, May 5–June 7, 1864

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Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War

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This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780-1782

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All the Fighting They Want: The Atlanta Campaign from Peachtree Creek to the City's Surrender, July 18–September 2, 1864

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Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna River, June 1863

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The Battle of West Point: Confederate Triumph at Ellis Bridge

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Historic Photos of Chickamauga Chattanooga

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Under the Crescent Moon with the XI Corps in the Civil War: Volume 2 - From Gettysburg to Victory, 1863-1865

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Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg

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The Battle of Totopotomoy Creek: Polegreen Church and the Prelude to Cold Harbor

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Like a Meteor Blazing Brightly: The Short but Controversial Life of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren

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Sherman's March Through the Carolinas

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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer: An Edgar Award Winner

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A People's History of the United States

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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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The Great Reset: And the War for the World

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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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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

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Why We're Polarized

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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 England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence

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Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner

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The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

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

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1776

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

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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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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

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Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

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

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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

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

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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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The Right Stuff

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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

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

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

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Summary of The Fourth Turning: by William Strauss & Neil Howe - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny - A Comprehensive Summary

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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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Battle of Austerlitz: Napoleon's Greatest Victory: 2 December is a special date for those fascinated by Napoleon Bonaparte. Not only is this the date he crowned himself Emperor of France in 1804, but also the date of his greatest victory a year later, the Battle of Austerlitz. James Rogers is joined by...

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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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#200 ANTIETAM (Epilogue) & EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION (Prologue): In which we look at the aftermath of the 1862 Maryland Campaign, and we also set the stage for our discussion of the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Gary W. Gallagher: Civil War Myths and Misinformation

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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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#243 STONES RIVER (Part the Fourth): In which we continue to tell the story of the Battle of Stones River, which took place outside of Murfreesboro, Tennessee from December 31, 1862 to January 2, 1863.

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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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#50 CONTRABANDS / BIG BETHEL: In which we discuss the decision to declare runaway slaves "contraband of war," and then we look at the Battle of Big Bethel which took place on June 10, 1861.

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Lecture 27 - Legacies of the Civil War: Professor Blight finishes his lecture series with a discussion of the legacies of the Civil War. Since the nineteenth century, Blight suggests, there have been three predominant strains of Civil War memory, which Blight defines as reconciliationist, white supremacist, and emancipationist. The war has retained a political currency throughout the years, and the ability to control the memory of the Civil War has been, and continues to be, hotly contested. 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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159 - The Aztec Eagles

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#03 MISSOURI COMPROMISE: In which we take a look at the crisis surrounding Missouri's admission into the Union as a slave state, and Henry Clay's pivotal role in brokering the ensuing compromise in 1820. 

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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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S2E1: Major John L. Smith, USMC, F4F Wildcat pilot, Guadalcanal, World War 2

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Scott Reynolds Nelson: Civil War Myths and Misinformation

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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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#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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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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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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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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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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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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#320- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Sixth): "hearing that a supply of shoes was to be obtained in gettysburg"

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Spanish Civil War Interview Series 7: International Brigades with Alexander Clifford: On this episode of our Spanish Civil War Interview Series I was joined by Alexander Clifford to discuss the International Brigades which would be such an important part of the Spanish Civil War. These groups of international volunteers would bolster...

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#68 "BATTLE OF THE HEMP BALES": In which we discuss the successful siege of Lexington by Sterling Price's Missouri State Guard in September, 1861.

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#448- THE HARPER'S FERRY SKEDADDLERS

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Ep 2.1: 1st Lt Jack Mathis, USAAF, B-17 Flying Fortress bombardier, 8th Air Force, World War 2

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158 - With the Old Breed: EB Sledge: In September 1944 a young Marine name Eugene Sledge landed on the Pacific Island of Peleliu. As a mortarman, stretcher-bearer and rifleman Sledge would fight his way across Peleliu then the Japanese island of Okinawa, arguably two of the fiercest and...

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The Burmese Who Fought With Britain: Many Burmese people resisted the Japanese occupation of their country in World War Two. Filmmaker Alex Bescoby has made a film celebrating those who the Empire left behind, despite the hardships they endured to serve Britain during the war. For this ep...