Chancellorsville and Gettysburg: Booktrack Edition

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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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The Gettysburg Campaign: The History and Legacy of the Civil War’s Most Famous Campaign

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Chancellorsville

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Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac

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December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World

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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

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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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Bomb Group: The Eighth Air Force's 381st and The Allied Air Offensive Over Europe

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The Iron Brigade and Stonewall Brigade: The History of the Civil War’s Most Famous Brigades

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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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Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command

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

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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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First Over There: The Attack on Cantigny, America's First Battle of World War I

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Gettysburg

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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam

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MacArthur's Air Force: American Airpower Over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941-51

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

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Shiloh, 1862

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Burning Steel: A Tank Regiment at War, 1939-45

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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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Commodore Matthew Perry: The Life and Legacy of the U.S. Navy Officer Who Opened Japan to the West

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With Grant at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg

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Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War

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

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David Farragut and David Dixon Porter: The Lives and Careers of the Adoptive Brothers Who Became the U.S. Navy’s First Admirals

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Civil War Battles

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

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Surrender at Appomattox: First-hand Accounts of Robert E. Lee's Surrender to Ulysses S. Grant

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The Woman in Me

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Counting the Cost

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Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

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Finding Me: A Memoir

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Bad Mormon

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Making It So: A Memoir

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Good Girls Don't

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I'm Glad My Mom Died

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On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft

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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir

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Enough

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Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

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Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: My Year of Psychedelics: Lessons on Better Living

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How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

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10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found a Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story

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Night: New translation by Marion Wiesel

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Wishful Drinking

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Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language

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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

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The Year of Magical Thinking

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The Summer of Fall: Gravity is a bitch, but I'm still standing

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Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: Built for This: The Quiet Strength of Powerlifting

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While Time Remains: A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America

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How to Stay Married

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Pageboy: A Memoir

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A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

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Angela's Ashes

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See You on the Way Down: Catch You on the Way Back Up!

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir

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

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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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#334- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Twentieth): "it seemed as if the bullets were as thick as hailstones in a storm"

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

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

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

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

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#327- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Thirteenth): "will our army be whipped?"

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

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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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#296 VICKSBURG (Part the Twentieth): In which Sherman scares off Johnston, Gardner surrenders Port Hudson to Banks, and we wrap-up the Vicksburg story arc.

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#379- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Sixty-fifth): "my country called and i came to die upon her altar"

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#391- CHICKAMAUGA (Part the First): In which we get a start on the Chickamauga story arc.

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#43 FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE / THE PHILIPPI RACES: In which we look at the clash between Union & Confederate forces at Fairfax Court House in northeast Virginia on June 1, 1861... and the Union surprise attack at Philippi in northwest Virginia on June 3. 

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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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#364- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Fiftieth): "none but demons can delight in war"

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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,...

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#25 CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA: In which we discuss the birth of the Confederate States of America at Montgomery, Alabama in February 1861.

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#22 ELECTION OF 1860: In which we discuss the reasons behind the collapse of the Democratic Party, the resulting four-way contest for the presidency, and Abraham Lincoln's victory on Election Day, November 6, 1860.

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#290- VICKSBURG (Part the Fourteenth): In which the Confederates lose the Battle of Raymond, lose the Mississippi state capital of Jackson, and Pemberton- against his own better judgement- moves out to confront Grant.  

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#297 GETTYSBURG (Part the First): In which we kick-off the Gettysburg story arc.

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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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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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#366- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Fifty-second): "almost broken down from want of rest"

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#363- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Forty-ninth): "the whole hillside seemed enveloped in a blaze"

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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