The Greatest Civil War Battles: The Vicksburg Campaign

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The Vicksburg Campaign, November 1862-July 1863 [Illustrated Edition]

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Grant Wins the War: Decision at Vicksburg

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

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Chancellorsville's Forgotten Front: The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church, May 3, 1863

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

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Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi

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The Summer of '63: Vicksburg & Tullahoma: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War

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Cold Harbor to the Crater: The End of the Overland Campaign

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The Fredericksburg Campaign

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The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven Days

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The Summer of ’63 Gettysburg: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War

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The Civil War at Perryville: Battling for the Bluegrass

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The Battle of Fort Donelson: No Terms but Unconditional Surrender

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One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4–14, 1863

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

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

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The Last Battle of Winchester: Phil Sheridan, Jubal Early, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, August 7–September 19, 1864

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

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Pennsylvania Civil War Trails: The Guide to Battle Sites, Monuments, Museums and Towns

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Mr. Lincoln's Forts: A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington

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A Field Guide to Gettysburg, Second Edition Expanded Ebook: Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People

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The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock

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Lincoln's Choice: The Repeating Rifle which Cut Short the Civil War

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High Tide At Gettysburg: The Campaign In Pennsylvania

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The Maps of Gettysburg, eBook Short #2: The First Day, July 1, 1863

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Battle Digest: Saratoga

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The Antietam Campaign

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Our Fathers at Gettysburg 2nd ed: A Step by Step Description of the Greatest Battle of the American Civil War

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Unfurl Those Colors!: McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign

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

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

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

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

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A People's History of the United States

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The Library Book

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1776

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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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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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

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

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The White Album: Essays

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

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

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The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon

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The Fifties

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

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

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The Great Reset: And the War for the World

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

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The Untold History of the United States

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White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

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

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Twelve Years a Slave (Illustrated) (Two Pence books)

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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 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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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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#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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Lecture 18 - "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad: This lecture probes the reasons for confederate defeat and union victory. Professor Blight begins with an elucidation of the loss-of-will thesis, which suggests that it was a lack of conviction on the home front that assured confederate defeat, before offering another of other popular explanations for northern victory: industrial capacity, political leadership, military leadership, international diplomacy, a pre-existing political culture, and emancipation. Blight warns, however, that we cannot forget the battlefield, and, to this end, concludes his lecture with a discussion of the decisive Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July of 1863. Transcript Lecture Page

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#194 ANTIETAM (Part the Ninth): In which we look at the ill-fated attack into the West Woods by John Sedgwick's division of Sumner's Second Corps at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862.

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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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#293 VICKSBURG (Part the Seventeenth): In which we look at Federal siege operations at Vicksburg, May-June 1863.

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#296 VICKSBURG (Part the Twentieth): In which Sherman scares off Johnston, Gardner surrenders Port Hudson to Banks, and we wrap-up the Vicksburg story arc.

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#292 VICKSBURG (Part the Sixteenth): In which we look at Grant's failed attacks on Vicksburg on May 19 & 22, 1863.

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‘Robert E. Lee: A Life’, with Dr. Allen Guelzo

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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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War And Our World: Military historian John Keegan explores the impact warfare has had on modern times.

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Lecture 22 - Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President: Professor Blight continues his discussion of the political history of Reconstruction. The central figure in the early phase of Reconstruction was President Andrew Johnson. Under Johnson's stewardship, southern whites held constitutional conventions throughout 1865, drafting new constitutions that outlawed slavery but changed little else. When the Republican-dominated U.S. Congress reassembled late in 1865, they put a stop to Johnson's leniency and inaugurated Radical (or Congressional) Reconstruction, a process that resulted in the immediate passage of the Civil Rights bill and the Fourteenth Amendment, and the eventual passage of four Reconstruction Acts. The Congressional elections in 1866 and Johnson's disastrous "Swing Around the Circle" speaking tour strengthened Radical control over Congress. Each step of the way, Johnson did everything he could to obstruct Congressional Reconstruction, setting the stage for his i

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Stephen Walt | America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy: In Episode 93 of , Demetri Kofinas speaks with Harvard University's Professor of International Affairs Stephen Walt, about the arch of American foreign policy and the decline of U.S. primacy.  The conversation begins by addressing the major...

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#295 VICKSBURG (Part the Nineteenth): In which we see John Pemberton surrender Vicksburg to Ulysses S Grant on July 4, 1863, ending the forty-seven day siege.

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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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Lecture 24 - Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption": This lecture opens with a discussion of the myriad moments at which historians have declared an "end" to Reconstruction, before shifting to the myth and reality of "Carpetbag rule" in the Reconstruction South. Popularized by Lost Cause apologists and biased historians, this myth suggests that the southern governments of the Reconstruction era were dominated by unscrupulous and criminal Yankees who relied on the ignorant black vote to rob and despoil the innocent South. The reality, of course, diverges widely from this image. Among other accomplishments, the Radical state governments that came into existence after 1868 made important gains in African-American rights and public education. Professor Blight closes the lecture with the passage of the 15th Amendment, the waning radicalism of the Republican party after 1870, and the rise of white political terrorism across the South. Transcript Lecture

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#245 STONES RIVER (Part the Sixth): In which we wrap-up our discussion of the Battle of Stones River, which took place outside Murfreesboro, Tennessee from December 31, 1862 to January 2, 1863.  

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Fighter Pilots of the Korean War

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Lecture 21 - Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction: In this lecture, Professor Blight begins his engagement with Reconstruction. Reconstruction, Blight suggests, might best be understood as an extended referendum on the meaning of the Civil War. Even before the war's end, various constituencies in the North attempted to control the shape of the post-war Reconstruction of the South. In late 1863, President Abraham Lincoln offered his lenient "Ten Percent Plan." Six months later, Congressional Republicans concerned by Lincoln's charity rallied behind the more radical provisions of the Wade-Davis Bill. Despite their struggle for control over Reconstruction, Congressional Radicals and President Lincoln managed to work together on two vital pieces of Reconstruction legislation in the first months of 1865--the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery in the United States, and the Freedmen's Bureau bill. Transcript Lecture Page

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Lecture 17 - Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War: Professor Blight begins his lecture with a description of the sea change in Civil War scholarship heralded by the Social History revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. Along with a focus on the experience of the common solider, women, and African Americans, a central component of this shift in scholarly emphasis was an increased interest in the effects of the war on the Union and Confederate home fronts. After suggesting some of the ways in which individual Americans experienced the war, Professor Blight moves to a discussion of the war's effect on industry and economics, North and South. The lecture concludes with a description of the increased activism of the federal government during the war, an activism that found expression in finance, agriculture, taxation, building railroads, and, most importantly, in emancipation. Transcript Lecture Page

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

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#448- THE HARPER'S FERRY SKEDADDLERS

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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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#304- GETTYSBURG (Part the Eighth): The Battle of Brandy Station

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

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