The Battle of South Mountain

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

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The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: From Yorktown to the Seven Days, Volume 2

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

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Shiloh: Two Days in Hell: Line of Battle, #2

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The Battle of South Mountain

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The Shenandoah Valley Campaigns, Omnibus E-book: Includes The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862 and The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864

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Campaign for Petersburg

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

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Faces of Union Soldiers at Antietam

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

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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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The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 [Illustrated Edition]

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The Battle of First Deep Bottom

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A Journal of the American Civil War: V6-1: North Carolina: The Final Battles

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The Antietam Campaign

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Miller Cornfield at Antietam: The Civil War's Bloodiest Combat

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Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath

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Yorktown's Civil War Siege: Drums Along the Warwick

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

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Lincoln and Grant: The Westerners Who Won the Civil War

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A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee's Triumph, 1862-1863

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The Battle of New Market Heights: Freedom Will Be Theirs by the Sword

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Confederate General William "Extra Billy" Smith: From Virginia's Statehouse to Gettysburg Scapegoat

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Civil War Northern Virginia 1861

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Big Bethel: The First Battle

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Dear Sarah: Letters Home from a Soldier of the Iron Brigade

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Blue-Blooded Cavalryman: Captain William Brooke Rawle in the Army of the Potomac, May 1863–August 1865

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First Day at Gettysburg: Crisis at the Crossroads

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The Battle of Cedar Creek: Victory from the Jaws of Defeat

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Gettysburg: Three Days That Saved the United States

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

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Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner

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A People's History of the United States

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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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

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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 Great Reset: And the War for the World

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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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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence

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

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

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

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Why We're Polarized

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

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

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

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

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

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The Right Stuff

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

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1776

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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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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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

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The Fifties

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

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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

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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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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 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 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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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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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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Vietnam Revisited: Conversation With Mark Moyar

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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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#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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BUTCH & SUNDANCE Ep. 3 | “The Wild Bunch”: Butch Cassidy becomes the leader of a gang known as the Wild Bunch, and Sundance becomes a key member of the outfit

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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 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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#13 CANING OF SUMNER: In which we look at the brutal caning of Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts by Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina in May, 1856.

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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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1.8- Checkmate: After the Battle of Naseby ended the King's chances for military victory, he became the frustrating center of post-war negotiations. 

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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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#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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BUTCH & SUNDANCE Ep. 4 | “Bolivia”: Butch and Sundance travel to South America to outrun the Pinkertons and they take Sundance’s girlfriend, Etta Place, with them.

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60: Gettysburg

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Abraham Lincoln: The Outer Limits of Inner Truth proudly presents an unprecedented historical & metaphysical analysis on Abraham Lincoln

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Chief Black Hawk and The "Black Hawk War" Part I

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Vaping Your Way to War Crimes with Duncan Hunter: This week, Nate and Francis discuss two recent news stories that are painfully dumb but also, surprisingly, relevant to the military. First, we examine the story of Trump’s lackeys trying to forcibly relocate the USS John S. McCain because of...

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Episode 540: Kevin Maurer, Acclaimed Journalist and Author of 'Rock Force': This week we rolled back the clock with journalist and author Kevin Maurer as we talk about his most recent book 'Rock Force.'

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John C. McManus, Author of “To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945”

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TEXAS RANGERS Ep. 4 | "Comanche Moon": The end of the Mexican-American War brings great change to the Texas Rangers. Heroes have been buried; the old captains move on; and new leaders emerge. The U.S. army builds two lines of forts in Texas and finally creates a star-studded regiment of...

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The First Battle of Bull Run by P. G. T. Beauregard ~ Full Audiobook: The First Battle of Bull Run by P. G. T. Beauregard audiobook. General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was one of the senior commanders of Southern forces during the Civil War. It was he who initiated the hostilities by opening fire on Ft. Sumter i...

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Chancellorsville and Gettysburg by Abner Doubleday ~ Full Audiobook: Chancellorsville and Gettysburg by Abner Doubleday audiobook. Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter in 1861. Two years later, after a series of battl...

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In the Trenches with War Correspondent Kevin Maurer: Today’s guest is an award-winning war correspondent and New York Times bestselling author whose writing has been featured in outlets including GQ, Men’s Journal, The Daily Beast, and The Washington Post.

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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