Courage and Devotion: A History of Bankhead's/Scott's Tennessee Battery in the American Civil War

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Blue-Blooded Cavalryman: Captain William Brooke Rawle in the Army of the Potomac, May 1863–August 1865

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The Journey North: The 15th Alabama Fights the 20th Maine at Gettysburg

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The Battle of Westport: Missouri's Great Confederate Raid

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The Story of a Confederate Boy in the Civil War

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

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The Battle of Okolona: Defending the Mississippi Prairie

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The Washington Arsenal Explosion: Civil War Disaster in the Capital

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

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The Civil War Letters of Joshua K. Callaway

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This War So Horrible: The Civil War Diary of Hiram Smith Williams, 40th Alabama Confederate Pioneer

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Seven Months In The Rebel States During The North American War, 1863

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The Divided Union: A Concise History of the American Civil War

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New York's North Country and the Civil War: Soldiers, Civilians and Legacies

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History of the Civil War, 1861-1865

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Inside the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Experience of Captain Francis Adams Donaldson

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A Journal of the American Civil War: V1-3

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Slavery & Four Years of War (Vol.1&2): A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Civil War

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Campaigning with Uncle Billy: The Civil War Memoirs of Sgt. Lyman S. Widney, 34Th Illinois Volunteer Infantry

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

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Recollections of War Times: By An Old Veteran while under Stonewall Jackson and Lieutenant General James Longstreet

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The National Tribune Civil War Index: A Guide to the Weekly Newspaper Dedicated to Civil War Veterans, 1877-1943, Volume 3: Author, Unit, and Subject Index

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This Great Struggle: America's Civil War

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Calamity in Carolina: The Battles of Averasboro and Bentonville, March 1865

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Lone Star Valor: Texans of the Blue & Gray at Gettysburg

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Sherman's March Through the Carolinas

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A Journal of the American Civil War: V1-4

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Confederate Guerrilla: The Civil War Memoir of Joseph M. Bailey

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A Journal of the American Civil War: V2-1: The Vicksburg Campaign

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The Battle of Hubbardton: The Rear Guard Action that Saved America

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Silent Sentinels: A Reference Guide to the Artillery at Gettysburg

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The God Delusion

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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

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The Art of War

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The Wager Disaster: Mayem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas

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Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text

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The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists

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A Daily Creativity Journal

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Unit 731: Testimony

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The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific

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Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy

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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

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Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret

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The Last Kingdom

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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

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God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (Harrowing Historical Nonfiction Bestseller About a Courageous Fight for Justice)

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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors

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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

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The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler

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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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

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Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

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The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy

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Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

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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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#72 McCLELLAN TAKES CHARGE: In which we discuss George B. McClellan's arrival in Washington in July of 1861, and his taking command of the defeated & demoralized force that would become the Union's famed Army of the Potomac.

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#415- THE LAWRENCE MASSACRE (Part the Second): In which William Quantrill and his rebel bushwhackers descend upon the town of Lawrence, Kansas, on August 21, 1863, and a massacre ensues.

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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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010 Don N. Hagist, British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution: Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early American History

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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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33. The Lost Colony Wasn't Lost

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

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

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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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071 Bruce Venter, Saratoga and Hubbardton, 1777: Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early American History

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The Battle of Okinawa: The last major confrontation of the Second World War, and the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific theatre, the Battle of Okinawa ended in Allied victory but with massive casualties on both sides. To take us through the battle and explore the use ...

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2304 The French Campaign in Egypt and Syria, 1798-1801 - Part 2: Although a good amount of time was allowed to prepare for the operation, the campaign itself was poorly planned. Inexplicably, the 13,000 men Napoleon led across the Sinai desert towards Syria in January 1799 were not properly equipped for the desert...

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Prisoners of the Japanese: Sarah Kovner challenges longstanding beliefs about why Allied prisoners were mistreated in Japanese camps during the Second World War. Historyextra.com/podcast

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#65 MAYHEM IN MISSOURI (Part the Second): In which we continue our look at the mayhem that broke out in Missouri at the start of the Civil War.  In this episode we cover the 'Battle of Carthage,' and set the stage for the Battle of Wilson's Creek.

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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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#60 CONFEDERATE FLAGS: In which we take a quick look at the story behind the Confederacy's famous battle flag, and also the history behind each of the Confederate States of America's three national flags.

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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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243-The Peshtigo Fire: In 1871, the deadliest wildfire in American history struck Peshtigo, Wisconsin.

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2910 After Cannae: At the Battle of Cannae, 2 August, 216 B.C., Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca administered one of Rome's most crushing military defeats. Depending upon the ancient source, Roman losses on the Apulian battlefield numbered anywhere from roughly...

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George Custer massacres peaceful Cheyenne near the Washita River - November 27th, 1868: On this day in 1868, at dawn, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer led a surprise attack on a peaceful Cheyenne village along the Washita River in what is now Oklahoma.

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#119 SHILOH (Part the Ninth): In which we continue to tell the story of the Battle of Shiloh, which took place on April 6-7, 1862.  In this episode we discuss Sherman & McClernand's counterattack on the Union right, and we also look at the wayward march of Lew Wallace's...

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#288 VICKSBURG (Part the Twelfth): In which we look at the Battle of Port Gibson, which took place on May 1, 1863, as Grant advanced inland after landing on the east side of the Mississippi River.

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

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RAF Coastal Command: unsung heroes of WW2: Leo McKinstry discusses the forgotten RAF force that helped neutralise the ‘U-boat menace’ in WW2

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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo: In April 1942, sixteen American B-25B bombers took off from the carrier USS Hornet and conducted a bombing raid over Japan that is known to posterity as the Doolittle Raid. After bombing Japan, the pilots’ intent was to land their planes in China…but...