Campaigns of the Civil War, Volume 4: The Army Under Pope

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

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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

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

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The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

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April 1865: The Month That Saved America

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The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier

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Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Civil War, June 23 - July 4, 1863

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Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac

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General George Washington: A Military Life

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William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life

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All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War's Pivotal Campaign

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General Sherman's Christmas: Savannah, 1864

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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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The War Before Independence: 1775-1776

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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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Gettysburg Voices from the Front

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Shiloh, 1862

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Gettysburg

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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam

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The 10 Key Campaigns of the American Revolution

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The Great "What Ifs" of the American Civil War: Historians Tackle the Conflict's Most Intriguing Possibilities

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

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A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventure

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American General: The Life and Times of William Tecumseh Sherman

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A Worse Place than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation

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The Stonewall Brigade and Hood’s Brigade: The History of the Most Famous Units in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War

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Pegasus Bridge

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Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War

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With Grant at Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg

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Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

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The Book of Five Rings

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

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The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

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Kill Anything That Moves

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The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare

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War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

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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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The Last Kingdom

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Strategy Masters: The Prince, The Art of War, and The Gallic Wars

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The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace

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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

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Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World

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The Rape of Nanking: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War

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The Diary of Anne Frank

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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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The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend

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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

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Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

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The Korean War: A History

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The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

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

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You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger

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Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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On Palestine

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Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin - Book Summary: How U.S. Navy SEALS Lead And Win

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

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The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

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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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#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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Rick Atkinson: The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777: Author Rick Atkinson returns to the PMML to discuss his latest book titled The British Are Coming, which is the first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution.

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

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

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S2E1: Major John L. Smith, USMC, F4F Wildcat pilot, Guadalcanal, World War 2

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

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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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#448- THE HARPER'S FERRY SKEDADDLERS

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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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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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Stephen Walt | America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy: In Episode 93 of , Demetri Kofinas speaks with Harvard University's Professor of International Affairs Stephen Walt, about the arch of American foreign policy and the decline of U.S. primacy.  The conversation begins by addressing the major...

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#66 WILSON'S CREEK (Part the First): In which we discuss the activities and maneuvering of both sides prior to the Battle of Wilson's Creek (August 10, 1861) in southwest Missouri.

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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 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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#01 INTRODUCTION: In which we give an introduction to the podcast, share a bit about ourselves, & discuss why we think the Civil War is still deserving of attention & study today. 

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

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

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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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Gary W. Gallagher: Civil War Myths and Misinformation

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

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Millard Fillmore: Teaching the obscure presidents: Should we teach the presidency of Millard Fillmore? What do we lose if we don't? Historians Jean Baker and James McPherson, along with Washington Post education reporter T. Rees Shapiro, tackle these questions in our 13th episode.