Antietam: Military Accounts of the Bloodiest Battle in American History

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Shiloh, 1862

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The Battle of Gettysburg

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Through Blood and Fire at Gettysburg: General Joshua L. Chamberlain and the 20th Main

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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War

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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

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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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Gettysburg Voices from the Front

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Gettysburg

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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War

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A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee

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

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The Union War

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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

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

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April 1865: The Month That Saved America

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Terrible Swift Sword

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The Dawn's Early Light

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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam

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

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With Grant at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg

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The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle

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Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs

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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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Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks That Saved the Nation

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Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free

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The War Before Independence: 1775-1776

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

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Grant

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The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

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

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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

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

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

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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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 Book of Charlie

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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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1776

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Up From Slavery

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The Untold History of the United States

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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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Dragonfire: Four Days That (Almost) Changed America

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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

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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 Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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The Wright Brothers

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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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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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Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition

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Letter from Birmingham Jail

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

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

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Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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EP15 The Supernova Coda: Author Ian W. Toll who has written extensively on the Pacific Theater in the Second World War joins Dan to put the finishing touches on the Supernova in the East subject matter. 1. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 by Ian W....

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

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Candid Conversations: Part III (Sebastian Junger)

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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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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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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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#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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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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#05 MEXICAN WAR (Part the First): In which we look at how tensions rose along the U.S.'s southern border, and then discuss how hostilities with Mexico commenced in April 1846.

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All Quiet on the Western Front: In this episode, James and special guest Sean McIver discuss the classic 1930 anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front. Based on the novel of the same name, All Quiet on the Western Front set the standard for all future war movies, especially...

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MACV-SOG: A Conversation with John Stryker Meyer (Part II)

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

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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,...