The Battle of Allatoona Pass: Civil War Skirmish in Bartow County, Georgia

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Confederate Soldiers in the American Civil War: Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages

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Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Granger, Grant, and Grandpa

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A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee's Triumph, 1862-1863

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Battle of White Sulphur Springs, The: Averell Fails to Secure West Virginia

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Hood's Tennessee Campaign: The Desperate Venture of a Desperate Man

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Plenty of Blame to go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg

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The Battle of Brice's Crossroads

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General Lee's Immortals: The Battles and Campaigns of the Branch-Lane Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861–1865

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Under the Crescent Moon with the XI Corps in the Civil War, Volume 1: From the Defenses of Washington to Chancellorsville, 1862-1863

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A History & Guide to the Monuments of Chickamauga National Military Park

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A Little Short of Boats: The Battles of Ball's Bluff & Edwards Ferry, October 21–22, 1861

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Lee and His Army in Confederate History

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Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia

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Two Great Rebel Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History

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The Battle of New Market Heights: Freedom Will Be Theirs by the Sword

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Pale Horse At Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg

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The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac

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Like a Meteor Blazing Brightly: The Short but Controversial Life of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren

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The Shenandoah Valley Campaigns, Omnibus E-book: Includes The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862 and The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864

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Maney's Confederate Brigade at the Battle of Perryville

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Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native Sons Who Came Home to Fight as Confederate Soldiers

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Hood’s Tennessee Campaign

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The 1865 Stoneman's Raid Begins: Leave Nothing for the Rebellion to Stand Upon

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Our Fathers at Gettysburg 2nd ed: A Step by Step Description of the Greatest Battle of the American Civil War

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The Long Arm of Lee: The History of the Artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia, Volume 2: : Chancellorsville to Appomattox [Illustrated Edition]

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The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock

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Three Years in the "Bloody Eleventh": The Campaigns of a Pennsylvania Reserves Regiment

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Battlelines: Gettysburg, Day 2: Civil War Combat Artists and the Pictures They Drew, #3

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Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans

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The Antietam Campaign

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Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

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Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

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The Art of War

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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11

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Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy

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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

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Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die

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A Daily Creativity Journal

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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War

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The God Delusion

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The Wager Disaster: Mayem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas

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

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Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text

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

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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

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The Last Kingdom

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Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret

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

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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

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God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (Harrowing Historical Nonfiction Bestseller About a Courageous Fight for Justice)

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

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The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy

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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos

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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors

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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

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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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#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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#293 VICKSBURG (Part the Seventeenth): In which we look at Federal siege operations at Vicksburg, May-June 1863.

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#291- VICKSBURG (Part the Fifteenth): In which we look at the decisive clash of the Vicksburg Campaign- the Battle of Champion Hill, which took place on May 16, 1863.

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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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#304- GETTYSBURG (Part the Eighth): The Battle of Brandy Station

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#332- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Eighteenth): "men were being mown down in great numbers on both sides"

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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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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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#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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#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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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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#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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#302 GETTYSBURG (Part the Sixth): In which the armies start to move. Well, one of the armies starts to move.

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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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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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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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#303- GETTYSBURG (Part the Seventh): In which Joe Hooker decides to do something about the concentration of rebel cavalry under Jeb Stuart at Culpeper.

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#330- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Sixteenth): "wait a while and i will send you word when to go in"

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#300 GETTYSBURG (Part the Fourth): In which we look at Robert E Lee's reorganization of the Army of Northern Virginia prior to the start of the Gettysburg Campaign.

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Lecture 22 - Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President: Professor Blight continues his discussion of the political history of Reconstruction. The central figure in the early phase of Reconstruction was President Andrew Johnson. Under Johnson's stewardship, southern whites held constitutional conventions throughout 1865, drafting new constitutions that outlawed slavery but changed little else. When the Republican-dominated U.S. Congress reassembled late in 1865, they put a stop to Johnson's leniency and inaugurated Radical (or Congressional) Reconstruction, a process that resulted in the immediate passage of the Civil Rights bill and the Fourteenth Amendment, and the eventual passage of four Reconstruction Acts. The Congressional elections in 1866 and Johnson's disastrous "Swing Around the Circle" speaking tour strengthened Radical control over Congress. Each step of the way, Johnson did everything he could to obstruct Congressional Reconstruction, setting the stage for his i

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#368- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Fifty-fourth): "it was kill all you can"

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

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

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

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#326- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Twelfth): "i am in ignorance as to what we have in front of us here"

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#311- GETTYSBURG (Part the Fifteenth): In which Jubal Early visits Gettysburg on June 26, 1863.

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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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#331- BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (Part the Seventeenth): "general reynolds is dead, and you are the senior officer on the field"