A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater

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

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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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Shiloh, 1862

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

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

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

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The Union War

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1777: Tipping Point at Saratoga

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The War Before Independence: 1775-1776

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The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution

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The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

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Gettysburg

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Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac

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Gettysburg Voices from the Front

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The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution

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April 1865: The Month That Saved America

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A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War

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The Lion of Round Top: The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War

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The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941: The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor

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Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American

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

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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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All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War's Pivotal Campaign

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

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

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

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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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77 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists

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

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

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

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

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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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The Book of Five Rings

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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

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

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The Last Kingdom

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

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Kill Anything That Moves

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On Palestine

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You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger

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Unbroken Bonds of Battle: A Modern Warriors Book of Heroism, Patriotism, and Friendship

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The Korean War: A History

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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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The Diary of Anne Frank

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Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals

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When I Come Home Again: 'A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020

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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 Rape of Nanking: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War

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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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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

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

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Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

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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 Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace

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

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

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

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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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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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#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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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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#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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046 John Ferling, Whirlwind: The American Revolution & the War That Won It: Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early American History

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2304 The French Campaign in Egypt and Syria, 1798-1801 - Part 2: Although a good amount of time was allowed to prepare for the operation, the campaign itself was poorly planned. Inexplicably, the 13,000 men Napoleon led across the Sinai desert towards Syria in January 1799 were not properly equipped for the desert...

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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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Gary W. Gallagher: Civil War Myths and Misinformation

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

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

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

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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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#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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Rick Atkinson: The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777: Author Rick Atkinson returns to the PMML to discuss his latest book titled The British Are Coming, which is the first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution.

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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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It Could Happen Here Trailer: It Could Happen Here Trailer

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Ep. 8: H.W. Brands on the Patriots and the Loyalists: Professor and historian H.W. Brands discusses the Patriots and the Loyalists during the Revolutionary War, drawing from his new book, Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution

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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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#448- THE HARPER'S FERRY SKEDADDLERS

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WW2: Naval Power

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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