The Battle of First Deep Bottom

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

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First Day at Gettysburg: Crisis at the Crossroads

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The Last Citadel: Petersburg, June 1864–April 1865

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

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Gettysburg: Three Days That Saved the United States

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The Bristoe Campaign: General Lee’s Last Strategic Offensive with the Army of Northern Virginia October 1863

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

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Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863

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The Antietam Campaign

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Fredericksburg, 1862 : A Study of War [Illustrated Edition]

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The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown's Hanging to Appomattox, 1859–1865

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Grant's Left Hook: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, May 5–June 7, 1864

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Battlelines: Road to Gettysburg: Civil War Combat Artists and the Pictures They Drew, #1

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Under the Crescent Moon with the XI Corps in the Civil War: Volume 2 - From Gettysburg to Victory, 1863-1865

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Battlelines: Gettysburg, Day 2: Civil War Combat Artists and the Pictures They Drew, #3

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Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia

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The Spotsylvania Campaign

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Campaign for Petersburg

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Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862

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

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

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Richmond Shall Not Be Given Up: The Seven Days’ Battles, June 25-July 1, 1862

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

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The Fredericksburg Campaign

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Meade and Lee After Gettysburg: The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign from Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House, July 14–31, 1863

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Lee's Last Retreat: The Flight to Appomattox

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Confederate Waterloo: The Battle of Five Forks, April 1, 1865, and the Controversy that Brought Down a General

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The Battle of Fort Donelson: No Terms but Unconditional Surrender

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In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat

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A Journal of the American Civil War: V5-3: The Antietam Campaign

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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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The Great Reset: And the War for the World

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A People's History of the United States

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Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump

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Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner

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

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

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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence

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

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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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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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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 Wright Brothers

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1776

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

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

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

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The Untold History of the 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 Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

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Three Sisters in Black: The Bizarre True Case of the Bathtub Tragedy

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

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The Right Stuff

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

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

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

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

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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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#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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#330- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Sixteenth): "wait a while and i will send you word when to go in"

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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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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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#272 CHANCELLORSVILLE (Part the Fifteenth): In which we see Robert E Lee fail in his attempt to "demolish" Sedgwick on May 4, 1863.

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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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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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#294 VICKSBURG (Part the Eighteenth): In which we look at Confederate efforts to aid Pemberton and the besieged Vicksburg garrison.

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#300 GETTYSBURG (Part the Fourth): In which we look at Robert E Lee's reorganization of the Army of Northern Virginia prior to the start of the Gettysburg Campaign.

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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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#326- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Twelfth): "i am in ignorance as to what we have in front of us here"

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The Battle of Gettysburg: 158 years ago, the Unionist and Confederate armies were on their second day of fighting at the town of Gettysburg. The battle was arguably the tipping point for the American Civil War and involved an artillery bombardment which may have been the loudes...

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#332- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Eighteenth): "men were being mown down in great numbers on both sides"

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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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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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#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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Ep. 0167: Endgame: The Not-So-Civil War Part 13: CJ covers the last phases of the American Civil War, including the collapse of the Confederacy and surrender of Confederate forces.

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Adam Lazarus, "The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams" (Citadel Press, 2023): An interview with Adam Lazarus

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Ep. 114 - U.S.S. Lexington: During the second world war, sea battles became a much more prevalent and impactful form of warfare. Great battleships and aircraft carriers became massive assets and a nation with an abundance of them was a power to be feared. This was proven in...

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Anna Reid, "A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution" (Basic Books, 2024): An interview with Anna Reid

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Stephen Cushman, "The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today" (UNC Press, 2021)

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319-Friedrich Kellner's Opposition: Friedrich Kellner kept a secret diary to record the crimes of the Third Reich.

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Daily News Brief for Wednesday, April 19th, 2023

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220-The Old Hero of Gettysburg: At the Battle of Gettysburg, a 69-year-old veteran of the War of 1812 turned up to support the Union troops.