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

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

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

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Conquered: Why the Army of Tennessee Failed

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To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign

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

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The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution

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Grant's Victory: How Ulysses S. Grant Won the Civil War

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The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville

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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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Shiloh, 1862

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Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac

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Lincoln and His Admirals

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

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American Hannibal: The Extraordinary Account of Revolutionary Hero Daniel Morgan at the Battle of Cowpens

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

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Bloody Mohawk: The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier

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A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War

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Eisenhower's Armies

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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam

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The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution

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Civil War 101: Understand America’s Greatest Conflict Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It

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1777: Tipping Point at Saratoga

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King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict

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Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion

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America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation

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Germantown: A Military History of the Battle for Philadelphia, October 4, 1777

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The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

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

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Strategy Masters: The Prince, The Art of War, and The Gallic Wars

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War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

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The Diary of Anne Frank

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The Last Kingdom

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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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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

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The Book of Five Rings

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

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

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The Templars: The History and the Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons

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Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

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The Korean War: A History

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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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Kill Anything That Moves

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Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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On Palestine

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

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The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

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The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team THREE Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi

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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

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Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World

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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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Sins of the Founding Father: George Washington, the Indigenous Tribes, and the Decisions that Shaped America’s Future

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The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

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

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

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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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You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger

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

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

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

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

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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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147 Don Hagist, British Soldiers, American War: What about the British Redcoats? When we discuss the military history of the American War for Independence, we tend to focus on specific battles or details about the men who served in George Washington’s Continental Army. Rarely do we take the...

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

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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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#45 INFANTRY (Part the First): In which we use several episodes to talk about the three combat arms of the Civil War- the infantry, cavalry, & artillery.

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

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

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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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Lincoln on Infrastructure: Known in history for his role in ending slavery and prosecuting the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln's most important issue in his time as an elected official was infrastructure. And in that, he was little different than his pioneer constituents. In this episode, we talk about Lincoln's roots, his arguments countering objections to improvement projects (that have relevance today), and how it shaped slavery and other political issues of his time.

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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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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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Episode 333-The Doolittle Raid Pt 4: The Pacific War Takes Shape

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

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

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Ep. 6: BGen Frederick Castle, USAAF, B-17 Flying Fortress pilot, 8th Air Force, World War 2

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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