Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 1)

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Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Addresses

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John Quincy Adams

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History of Julius Caesar

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Sherman's March: The First Full-Length Narrative of General William T. Sherman's Devastating March through Georgia and the Carolinas

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'Co. Aytch,' Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show

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Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage: Stories of our Most Admired President

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Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

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Herndon's Lincoln

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1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History

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Lincoln's Letters and Lincoln's Prose: The Private Man and the Warrior & Major Works by a Great American Writer

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The Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary

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Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father

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Abraham Lincoln: A Presidential Life

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Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America: A Biography

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The First Battle of Bull Run

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William the Conqueror

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Sherman's Military Lessons Of The American Civil War, From His Memoirs

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Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence

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Recollections of the Civil War

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American Hannibal: The Extraordinary Account of Revolutionary Hero Daniel Morgan at the Battle of Cowpens

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April 1865: The Month That Saved America

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Tillie Pierce: Teen Eyewitness to the Battle of Gettysburg

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Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

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Abraham Lincoln An Extraordinary Life

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Through Blood and Fire at Gettysburg: General Joshua L. Chamberlain and the 20th Main

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The Education of John Adams

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Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

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Life of Benjamin Franklin

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Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters

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James Monroe: A Republican Champion

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel

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Fairy Tale

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And Then There Were None

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Local Woman Missing

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Nothing to See Here

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From Blood and Ash

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Divine Rivals: A Novel

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The House in the Cerulean Sea

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The Bell Jar

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Leave the World Behind: A Novel

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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes

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Hang the Moon: A Novel

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Twisted Love

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Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Multi-Voice, A: The Bad Beginning

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The Overstory

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The Paris Apartment: A Novel

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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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The Dutch House: A Novel

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Good Girls Don't

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A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive

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How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

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Later

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The Ivy League Counterfeiter

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The Year of Magical Thinking

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

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If He Had Been with Me

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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

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The Dead Zone

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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

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

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68: Sherman's March to the Sea and the Thirteenth Amendment

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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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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.

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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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Hamilton: the man behind the musical: We explore the amazing life story of Alexander Hamilton, with Ron Chernow, whose biography of the American Founding Father inspired the hip-hop musical sensation.

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William Henry Harrison: Great song, horrible death: Washington Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri, along with Barbara Bair and Dr. Philip Mackowiak, deconstruct Harrison's transformative presidential campaign and debunk the myth of what killed him after only 32 days in office.

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

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#09 PRO-SLAVERY ARGUMENTS: In which we take a look at some pro-slavery arguments to see why Seward's "Higher Law" speech in March 1850 made Southerners so very very angry.

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129 John Bell, The Road to Concord, 1775: How did the colonists of Massachusetts go from public protests meant to shame government officials and destroy offending property, to armed conflict with British Regulars in Lexington and Concord? John Bell, the prolific blogger behind Boston1775.net...

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Franklin Pierce: Alexis and Elliott delve into the life of a handsome yet disappointing president, number 14, Franklin Pierce. They speak to a presidential grief specialist about how Pierce dealt with a tragic death two months before his inauguration, examine how the...

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John Tyler: Ghosts and the vice presidency: When Vice President Tyler took over the White House, he set a precedent that would forever shape the office. This episode features experts Barbara Bair and Joel Goldstein, as well as descendants who talk about the ghost who haunts the Tyler home.

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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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I Am James Buchanan: He's the President that is on the bottom of most lists.  But why?  And is it fair?  What did he think about his place in history?  We talk about POTUS 15 and look at the events of the run-up to the American Civil War, and we hear...

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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.

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046 John Ferling, Whirlwind: The American Revolution & the War That Won It: Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early American History

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Inside Benjamin Franklin's House

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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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All Quiet on the Western Front: In this episode, James and special guest Sean McIver discuss the classic 1930 anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front. Based on the novel of the same name, All Quiet on the Western Front set the standard for all future war movies, especially...

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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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#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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#11 FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW & UNCLE TOM'S CABIN: In which we discuss the Northern reaction to the new Fugitive Slave Law that was part of the Compromise of 1850.  Plus, we look at the significant impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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Episode 54 - Early Lincoln Movies: In this episode, we discuss five early movies of President Abraham Lincoln. The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924), Abraham Lincoln (1924), Abraham Lincoln (1930), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), and The Face of Lincoln...