Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy

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A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater

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On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864

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Shiloh, 1862

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Grant

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The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

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Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac

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Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War

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Terrible Swift Sword

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The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution

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The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman

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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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Lincoln's Pathfinder: John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856

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Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American

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Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War

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Frank and Jesse James in the Civil War: The History of the Bushwhackers Who Became Outlaws of the Wild West

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American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America

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Sherman: The Ruthless Victor

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Henry Clay: The Man Who Would Be President

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The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861

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Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero

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The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880

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“If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania”: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg - Volume 1: June 3–21, 1863

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The Great "What Ifs" of the American Civil War: Historians Tackle the Conflict's Most Intriguing Possibilities

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Lincoln's Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton

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The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction

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Brandywine: A Military History of the Battle that Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777

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The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta

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"Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken": Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg: July 4 - 14, 1863

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River of Death--The Chickamauga Campaign: Volume 1: The Fall of Chattanooga

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Conquered: Why the Army of Tennessee Failed

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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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77 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists

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The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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

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The Rape of Nanking: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War

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

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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

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On Palestine

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

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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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You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger

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The Book of Five Rings

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The Last Kingdom

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Kill Anything That Moves

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The Korean War: A History

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Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

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When I Come Home Again: 'A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020

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The Diary of Anne Frank

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Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin - Book Summary: How U.S. Navy SEALS Lead And Win

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Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

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The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace

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

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The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

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The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend

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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

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The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare

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#317- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Third): "the devil's to pay"

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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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#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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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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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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#324- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Tenth): "go like hell"

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Rick Atkinson: The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777: Author Rick Atkinson returns to the PMML to discuss his latest book titled The British Are Coming, which is the first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution.

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#316- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Second): "my god- you are not going to fire here, are you?"

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

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#51 GONE FOR A SOLDIER: In which we look at why Northern & Southern men signed up to fight at the beginning of the Civil War.

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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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Flags of Our Fathers: One of the most iconic photographs of all time is the famous Joe Rosenthal photo of the raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi in the southwest corner of Iwo Jima. In Flags of Our Fathers, director Clint Eastwood weaves together the story of...

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#321- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Seventh): "the action had now commenced in real earnest"

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#323- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Ninth): "in retreat, double-quick, run!"

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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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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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WW2: Naval Power

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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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#06 MEXICAN WAR (Part the Second): In which we continue our discussion of America's war with Mexico. We talk about the military action in California & New Mexico, then cover a battle in Congress over something called the Wilmot Proviso. Finally, we move back down to the Rio Grande,...

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#319- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Fifth): "the enemy are advancing in strong force"

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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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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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#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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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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#448- THE HARPER'S FERRY SKEDADDLERS

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The Truth About Bowe Bergdahl: a conversation with American Cipher author Michael Ames, Ep. 33: Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl left his platoon's base in eastern Afghanistan in the early hours of June 30, 2009. Since that day, easy answers to the many questions surrounding his case--why did he leave his post? What kinds of efforts were made...

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Elizabeth Varon, "Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South" (Simon & Schuster, 2023): An interview with Elizabeth Varon