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Episodes (232)
71: Revisiting the Hamilton/Burr Duel: An Affair of Honor
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70: Epilogue: The Civil War Comes to a Close
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69: Surrender at Appomattox: The Last Days of the Civil War
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68: Sherman's March to the Sea and the Thirteenth Amendment
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67: Ending 1864: The Battles of the Crater, Mobile Bay, Centralia, and Franklin
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66: The Election of 1864: Lincoln's Bid for Reelection
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65: Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign & The Free State of Jones
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Bonus: A New Sound for HTDS (Farewell to Josh, Hello to Lindsay Graham & Airship...
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64: Grant's Overland Campaign: The Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold...
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Bonus: A Chat about Southern Accents w/ Jeremy Collins from "Podcasts We Listen...
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63: Wounded and Dying: Nurses, Doctors, and Disease in the Civil War
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62: The War in Tennessee: Chickamauga and Chattanooga
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61: The Louisiana Native Guard, the 54th Massachusetts & On: Black Soldiers in t...
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60: Gettysburg
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59: Stone’s River, Suspending Habeas Corpus, Vicksburg, & Stonewall’s Death at C...
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58: Conscription & Riots (“A Rich Man’s War, But a Poor Man’s Fight”)
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57: Recap of The Civil War's First Half (1861-63)
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56: The Battle of Fredericksburg and the First Campaign of Vicksburg
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55: The Road to The Emancipation Proclamation
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54: The Best Opening Scenes in HTDS History
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53: A Civil War Christmas with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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52: From Second Bull Run, or Second Manassas to Antietam, or Sharpsburg
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51: A Change in Command: Seven Days Battles to the Battle of Cedar Mountain
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50: Mississippi Valley 1862: The Battles of New Orleans, Corinth, Memphis, and V...
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49: From Little Mac McClellan to Stonewall Jackson: The Peninsula and Shenandoah...
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48: The Battle of Shiloh: “Now boys, pitch in!”
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47: Bull Run, Trent Affair, the Merrimack, & Fort Donelson: The Early Days of th...
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46: The Civil War Begins: Fort Sumter, Secession, & Raising Armies
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45: Volume IV Epilogue
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44: Abraham Lincoln Becomes President of the Divided States of America
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43: Honest Abe, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, & John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferr...
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42: Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave
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41: Kansas! (Bleeding Kansas, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, & Caning of Charles Sumne...
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40: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention & the Explosion of...
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39: The California Gold Rush and the Compromise of 1850
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38: The (Early) Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
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37: La Amistad Slave Rebellion and the Rise of Abolitionism
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Volume III Epilogue
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36: Mexican-American War (Part 4): Los Niños Héroes, St. Patrick’s Battalion, &...
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35: Mexican-American War (Part 3): Nuevo México and the Final Push from Vera Cru...
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34: Mexican-American War (Part 2): The Pathfinder, the Bear Flag Revolt, y Los C...
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33: Mexican-American War (Part 1): From the Nueces River to the Rio Grande
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32: Mormonism and the Mormon Trail
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31: The California Trail: From the Donner Party to the Gold Rush
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30: The Oregon Trail (“You Have Died of Dysentery”)
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Christmas Special II: A Jackson White House Christmas
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29: The Bank War, Whigs, & Revolution in Texas
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28: Ushering in the Age of Jackson
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Epilogue to Volume 2
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27: The Last of the Founding Fathers
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