The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of luka and Corinth

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Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

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

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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

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Shiloh, 1862

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

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The Iron Brigade: The History of the Famous Union Army Brigade During the Civil War

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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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A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War

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Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Civil War, June 23 - July 4, 1863

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

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

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Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command

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Gettysburg

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To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign

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Gettysburg Voices from the Front

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Chancellorsville

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The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln's General, Master Builder of the Union Army

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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War

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NPR American Chronicles: The Civil War

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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam

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The Battle of Shiloh: Personal Recollections from Generals to Privates

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War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion

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Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg--And Why It Failed

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The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution

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The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War

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The War Before Independence: 1775-1776

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The Dawn's Early Light

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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa (1942-1943)

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The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction

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South Pacific Cauldron: World War II's Great Forgotten Battlegrounds

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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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Land of Delusion: Out on the edge with the crackpots and conspiracy-mongers remaking our shared reality

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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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1776

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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

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

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

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

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

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John Adams

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The Book of Charlie

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

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

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Dragonfire: Four Days That (Almost) Changed America

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UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition

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The Untold History of the United States

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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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

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

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

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

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The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home

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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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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

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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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#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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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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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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#318- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Fourth): "a heavy task was before us"

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

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

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#325- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Eleventh): "no one ever received a more important command"

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

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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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#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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Ep. 5: Maj James Howard, USAAF, P-51B Mustang, 9th Air Force, World War 2

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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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Max Boot: The Road Not Taken: Author Max Boot returns to the Pritzker Military Museum & Library to talk about his book "The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam"

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10: Dueling, Life Sucks at Valley Forge, von Steuben's Cool & the Battle of Monmouth

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#303- GETTYSBURG (Part the Seventh): In which Joe Hooker decides to do something about the concentration of rebel cavalry under Jeb Stuart at Culpeper.

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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 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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S2E5: Marines over Guadalcanal, WW2: Part 5 - 1st Lt Jefferson DeBlanc, USMC, F4F Wildcat pilot

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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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#322- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Eighth): "we went down at them pretty lively and captured a good many"

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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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Scott Reynolds Nelson: Civil War Myths and Misinformation

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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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#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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Why Operation Barbarossa Failed with Jonathan Dimbleby: Jonathan Dimbleby joins Dan once more to, this time, look at Stalin's response, what was going on in the city during the Battle of Moscow and why the Soviets ultimately succeeded in defeating the Germans.

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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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#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.