The Bloody Shirt: Terror after Appomattox

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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

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After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace

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This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War

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The War after the War: A New History of Reconstruction

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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

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

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April 1865: The Month That Saved America

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The Civil War: Exploring History One Week at a Time

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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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Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy

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The Union War

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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War

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

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Shiloh, 1862

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The Coming Fury: The Centennial History of the Civil War

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The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

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Terrible Swift Sword

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To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America

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The Civil War Collection: The Complete Story of America's Epic Struggle

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

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Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890

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America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union

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Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington

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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

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Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments that Redeemed America

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38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End

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Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army

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General Sherman's Christmas: Savannah, 1864

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The Shattering: America in the 1960s

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The Overstory

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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Leave the World Behind: A Novel

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

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

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The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

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Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel

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

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All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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Small Mercies: A Novel

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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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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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An American Marriage: A Novel

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The Secret History of the World

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Razorblade Tears: A Novel

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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

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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

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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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Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception

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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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The Korean War: A History

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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

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The Book of Five Rings

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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 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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75: Reconstruction (Part 3): The Rise of the KKK and the First Black Men in Government

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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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A Comanche Story: Quanah Parker: In this episode, we tell the story of Cynthia Ann Parker's son, the Comanche war chief Quanah Parker. Quanah led Comanche forces until his defeat at Adobe Walls. He then encouraged his people to settle on the reservation, refusing to sacrifice his culture

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Pontiac's Rebellion: Native American tribes in the Great Lakes region fight British expansion and rule in their territory

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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: Silicon Valley Bank is dead. The institution that was a major financier for venture capitalists, tech start-ups and other Silicon Valley outfits has collapsed. Enter: the federal government.

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

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76: Reconstruction (Part 4): The Battle of Liberty Place and the Mississippi Plan

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Bill O'Reilly | Killing the Witches: James and Bill O'Reilly embark on a harrowing journey back to the Salem Witch Trials through O'Reilly's latest book, "Killing The Witches." The discussion unveils the madness of the era, the emergence of a young Benjamin Franklin, and the profound impact of unchecked religious fervor on the course of American history.

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

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

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147 Don Hagist, British Soldiers, American War: What about the British Redcoats? When we discuss the military history of the American War for Independence, we tend to focus on specific battles or details about the men who served in George Washington’s Continental Army. Rarely do we take the...

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#36 SECESSION! PART DEUX: In which we talk about Abraham Lincoln's April 15th call for 75,000 militia to suppress the rebellion, and the subsequent secession of Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, & North Carolina.

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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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#12 BLEEDING KANSAS: In which we talk about Stephen Douglas's sponsorship of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the ensuing violence in "Bleeding Kansas," & the rise of the Republican Party as a direct result of Northern outrage over the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

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2 - The Tonkin Incident(s): Twice in six weeks, in the late summer of 1964, U.S. destroyers reported they were under unprovoked attack, by North Vietnamese PT boats, while on patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin. The first incident produced a massive airstrike...

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1 - The Churchill of Asia: “They started with me on Diem,” LBJ told an old friend, “that he was corrupt, and he ought to be killed. So, we killed him.”  Not quite true, it turns out, but the brutal assassination of South Vietnam’s...

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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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008 Gregory O'Malley, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807: Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early American History

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Beth Macy on 'Dopesick'

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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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The French & Indian War with Dan Snow

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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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010 Don N. Hagist, British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution: Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early American History

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297 Claudio Saunt, Indian Removal Act of 1830: The history of Native American land dispossession is as old as the story of colonization. European colonists came to the Americas, and the Caribbean, wanting land for farms and settlement so they found ways to acquire lands from indigenous peoples by...

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Lincoln on Infrastructure: Known in history for his role in ending slavery and prosecuting the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln's most important issue in his time as an elected official was infrastructure. And in that, he was little different than his pioneer constituents. In this episode, we talk about Lincoln's roots, his arguments countering objections to improvement projects (that have relevance today), and how it shaped slavery and other political issues of his time.