Civil War Journal: The Legacies

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War, Memory, and the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion

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The Battle of Roanoke Island: Burnside and the Fight for North Carolina

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Virginia at War, 1865

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Union in Peril: The Crisis over British Intervention in the Civil War

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Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War

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Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front

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A Place Called Appomattox

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A Bloodless Victory: The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory

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New York's North Country and the Civil War: Soldiers, Civilians and Legacies

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"A Few Bloody Noses": The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution

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THE HASKELL MEMOIRS. The Personal Narrative of a Confederate Officer

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My Dear Wife: The Letters of Pvt. Charles H. Prentiss 1862-1865

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The Battle of Bennington: Soldiers & Civilians

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A Late Encounter with the Civil War

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James Riley Weaver’s Civil War: The Diary of a Union Cavalry Officer and Prisoner of War, 1863–1865

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The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution

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

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Among the Enemy: A Michigan Soldier’s Civil War Journal

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Rebels at the Gate: Lee and McClellan on the Front Line of a Nation Divided

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The American Revolution by the Numbers

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Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary (Illustrated Edition): Civil War Memories Series

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The Battle of Hubbardton: The Rear Guard Action that Saved America

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"I Hope to Do My Country Service": The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry

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Northern Character: College-Educated New Englanders, Honor, Nationalism, and Leadership in the Civil War Era

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Memoirs Of The Confederate War For Independence [Illustrated Edition]

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Desertion During The Civil War

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A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction

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Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney

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The Valiant Hours; Narrative Of “Captain Brevet,” An Irish-American In The Army Of The Potomac

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1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism

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

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

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

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A People's History of the United States

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The Library Book

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1776

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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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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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

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

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

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

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The White Album: Essays

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

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

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The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon

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The Fifties

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

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

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The Great Reset: And the War for the World

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

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The Untold History of the United States

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White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

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

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Twelve Years a Slave (Illustrated) (Two Pence books)

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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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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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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 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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#15 DRED SCOTT: In which we take a look at the Dred Scott case and the fiasco over the Lecompton Constitution, and show how the snowballing negative consequences from those events finally caused the Democratic Party to, once & for all, split along sectional...

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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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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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68. Ken Tout - Tank!: Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today Al is reading from Tank!, by Ken Tout.A Goalhanger Films Production#W...

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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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The Battle of Blair Mountain: 100 years ago, in the hills of West Virginia, Black, white and European immigrant coal miners banded together to demand better pay and safer working conditions … and were met with machine guns.

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Introduction to the War of 1812: In this episode, James kicks off Season 4 of Key Battles of American History. This new season will include discussions of the United States’ three most significant wars between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War: The War of 1812, the Texas...

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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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66. George MacDonald Fraser - Quartered Safe Out Here: Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk, over the next 12 days Al and James are reading you extracts from some of their favourite books about the war. Today, Al is reading from Quartered Safe Here, by George MacDonald Fraser

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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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#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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133 Patrick Breen, The Nat Turner Revolt: The institution of African slavery in North America began in late August 1619 and persisted until the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States in December 1865. Over those 246 years, many slaves plotted and conspired...

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The Supernatural in War: Prior to the First World War, ghostly apparitions across battlefields tended to be confined to large scale skirmishes fought in the skies. In America, Modern folklore has helped to spawn a cottage industry within the tourist trade of Civil War battlefi...

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The New York Press & The Headless Torso Mystery: New York journalism in 1897 was in a pretty technicolor space. Newspapers, so long the grey, stolid, medium of the merchants and businessman, were instead being filled with lurid stories of murder, scandal and drunken debauchery and the public were lovi...

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Donald F. Johnson, "Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020): An interview with Donald F. Johnson

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123: Revolutionary Allegiances (Doing History Rev): Doing History: To the Revolution!

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Daniel Y. Kim, "The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War" (NYU Press, 2020): An interview with Daniel Y. Kim

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177 Martin Brückner, The Social Life of Maps in America: Did you know that maps have social lives? Maps facilitate a lot of different social and political relationships between people and nations. And they did a lot of this work for Americans throughout the early American past. Martin Brückner, a Professor...

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WW2: Forgotten Mission of the 6888th Battalion

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220-The Old Hero of Gettysburg: At the Battle of Gettysburg, a 69-year-old veteran of the War of 1812 turned up to support the Union troops.

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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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140 Tamara Thornton, Nathaniel Bowditch: 19th-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea: Nathaniel Bowditch worked as a navigator, mathematician, astronomer, and business innovator. Over the course of his lifetime, his fellow Americans hailed him as the “American Sir Isaac Newton.” Tamara Thornton, a professor of history at the...

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Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Fight Over U.S. History: You’ve heard plenty by now about the fights over teaching critical race theory and the 1619 Project. But behind those skirmishes is something deeper: A fight over the story we tell about America. Why that fight has so gripped our national discourse is the question of this podcast: What changes when a country’s sense of its own history changes? What changes when who gets to tell that story changes? What are the stakes here, and why now? My guests for this conversation need little introduction. Nikole Hannah-Jones is an investigative journalist for the New York Times Magazine where she led the 1619 Project, and, before that, did incredible work on racial inequality in the American education system. Ta- Nehisi Coates is the author of books including “Between the World and Me” and “The Water Dancer,” essays including “The Case for Reparations,” and, for Marvel Comics, “Captain America” and “Black Panther.” Each of th

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The Boston Tea Party Explained

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The Blitz: An Alternative History: Between September 1940 and May 1941, the German Luftwaffe relentlessly pounded British cities with bombs in an attempt to force the British to surrender. Ultimately whilst killing thousands and causing extensive damage the bombing offensive failed. The...

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