Civil War Reminiscences by Those Who Were There

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The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville

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

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Shiloh, 1862

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The Union War

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Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War

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April 1865: The Month That Saved America

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Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War

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A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom

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On Hallowed Ground: The Last Battle for Pork Chop Hill

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A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War

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Bloody Mohawk: The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier

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Reminiscences of a Rebel: The True Adventures of a Confederate Soldier

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Long Time Gone: Neighbors Divided by Civil Way

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Gettysburg Voices from the Front

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Lost Soul: A Confederate Soldier In New England

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Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

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The Iron Brigade: The History of the Famous Union Army Brigade During the Civil War

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Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart

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The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier

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Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army

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Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea

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Service With the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers Four Years with the Iron Brigade

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

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A German Deserter's War Experience

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The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

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"Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken": Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg: July 4 - 14, 1863

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On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864

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Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

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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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Sins of the Founding Father: George Washington, the Indigenous Tribes, and the Decisions that Shaped America’s Future

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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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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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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 the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

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

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

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1776

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

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

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John Adams

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

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The Book of Charlie

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Dragonfire: Four Days That (Almost) Changed America

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

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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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UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson And The Opening Of The American West

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

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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

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The Untold History of the United States

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition

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Up From Slavery

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The Wright Brothers

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

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

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

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

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#51 GONE FOR A SOLDIER: In which we look at why Northern & Southern men signed up to fight at the beginning of the Civil War.

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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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#322- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Eighth): "we went down at them pretty lively and captured a good many"

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

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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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#50 CONTRABANDS / BIG BETHEL: In which we discuss the decision to declare runaway slaves "contraband of war," and then we look at the Battle of Big Bethel which took place on June 10, 1861.

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

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#68 "BATTLE OF THE HEMP BALES": In which we discuss the successful siege of Lexington by Sterling Price's Missouri State Guard in September, 1861.

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

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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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#91 FORTS HENRY & DONELSON (Part the Third): In which we look at the Federal timberclads' dramatic raid up the Tennessee River, and Albert Sidney Johnston's controversial decision to reinforce- but not to fully commit to the defense of- Fort Donelson.

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503a The Nez Perce War; American Nomads

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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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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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#89 FORTS HENRY & DONELSON (Part the First): In which we give the background to Ulysses S. Grant's February, 1862 campaign to capture Forts Henry & Donelson in northern Tennessee.

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#37 SIEGE OF WASHINGTON (Part the First): In which we relate the events in the dark days of April 1861, when Washington DC was cut off from the loyal states of the North.

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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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#80 ULYSSES S GRANT (Part the Second): In which we continue with our look at Ulysses S. Grant's life story, bringing him up to speed with the podcast timeline.

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#62 CIVIL WAR MEDICINE (Part the Second): In which we continue our discussion of medical issues affecting Civil War soldiers.  In this episode we look at what happened to a soldier after he was wounded on the battlefield.