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Episode #453-“The Civil War at Sea” by Craig L Symonds
Episode #452-“America’s Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson” by J Matthew Gallman
Episode #451-“Black Soldiers in Blue: African American troops in the Civil War Era” by John David Smith
Episode #450-“Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War” by Craig L. Symonds
Episode #449- “Confederate Ordeal: The Southern Home Front” and “Twenty Million Yankees: The Northern Home Front” by the Editors of Time-Life Books
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Episode #447-“Lee in the Lowcountry: Defending Charleston & Savannah, 1861-1862” by Daniel J Crooks
Episode #446-“Desert Tiger: Captain Paddy Graydon and the Civil War in the Far Southwest” by Jerry D Thompson
Episode #445-“Echoes of Glory: Illustrated Atlas of the Civil War” by the Editors of Time-Life Books
Episode #444-“Abraham and Mary Lincoln” by Kenneth J Winkle
Episode #443-“If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania: The Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia March to Gettysburg” (Volumes 1 & 2) by Scott L Mingus and Eric J Wittenberg
Episode #442-“Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865” by Noah Andre Trudeau
Episode #441-“The Union Cavalry Comes of Age: Hartwood Church to Brandy Station, 1863” by Eric J Wittenberg
Episode #440-“The Great Battle Never Fought: The Mine Run Campaign” by Chris Mackowski
Episode #439-“The Maps of the Bristoe Station and Mine Run Campaigns” by Bradley M Gottfried
Episode #438-“The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi” by Earl J Hess
Episode #437-“Burnside” by William Marvel
Episode #436-“The Knoxville Campaign: Burnside and Longstreet in East Tennessee” by Earl J Hess
Episode #435-“Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South” by Elizabeth Varon
Episode #434-“All Hell Can’t Stop Them: The Battles for Chattanooga- Missionary Ridge and Ringgold, November 24-27, 1863” by David A Powell
Episode #433-Blue & Gray Magazine Volume 29 Issue #6
Episode #432-“Voices of the Civil War: Chattanooga” by the Editors of Time-Life Books
Episode #431-“The Chattanooga Campaign” edited by Steven E Woodworth and Charles D Grear
Episode #430-“Small but Important Riots: The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville” by Robert F O’Neill
Episode #429-“Gettysburg’s Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond” by Hampton Newsome
Episode #428-“In the Shadow of the Round Tops: Longstreet’s Countermarch, Johnston’s Reconnaissance, and the Enduring Battles for the Memory of July 2, 1863” by Allen R Thompson
Episode #427-“The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and the Native Peoples in the Fight for the West” by Megan Kate Nelson
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Episode #425-“The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga” by Peter Cozzens
Episode #424-“Mountains Touched with Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863” by Wiley Sword
We are a people to whom the past is forever speaking-“Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction” by Eric Foner and “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” by David W Blight
Episode #423-“The Impulse of Command: Ulysses S Grant at Chattanooga” by David A Powell
Episode #422-“Decisions at Chattanooga: The Nineteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Battle” by Larry Peterson
Episode #421-“A Soldier to the Last: Major General Joseph Wheeler in Blue and Gray” by Edward G Longacre
Episode #420-“Jefferson Davis’s Generals” edited by Gabor Boritt
Episode #419-“Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns” by Steven E Woodworth
Episode #418-“Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station” by Jeffrey William Hunt
Episode #417-“A Want of Vigilance: The Bristoe Station Campaign, October 9-19, 1863” by Bill Backus & Robert Orrison
Episode #416-“The Maps of the Bristoe Station and Mine Run Campaigns” by Bradley M Gottfried
Episode #415-“Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre” by Thomas Goodrich
Episode #414-“Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861-1865” by Thomas Goodrich
Episode #413-“The Chickamauga Campaign: Barren Victory” by David A Powell
Episode #412- “George Henry Thomas: As True as Steel” by Brian Steel Wills
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Episode #410-“The Civil War in the East: Struggle, Stalemate, and Victory” by Brooks Simpson and “The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi” by Earl Hess
Episode #409:”The Chickamauga Campaign: Glory or the Grave” by David A Powell
Episode #408-“Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era” by James M McPherson
Episode #407-“Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater” by the American Battlefield Trust
Episode #406-“William S Rosecrans and the Union Victory: A Civil War Biography” by David G Moore
Episode #405-“General James Longstreet: The Confederacy’s Most Controversial Soldier” by Jeffry D Wert
Episode #404-“Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy” by Earl J Hess
Episode #402-“Failure in the Saddle: Nathan Bedford Forrest, Joe Wheeler, and the Failure of the Confederate Cavalry During the Chickamauga Campaign” by David A Powell
Episode #401-Blue & Gray magazine: Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Summer 2008
Episode #400-“Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce”… and “Company Aytch: or a Side Show of the Big Show- A Memoir of the Civil War” by Sam Watkins
Episode #399-“Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness” by Earl J Hess
Episode #398-“This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga” by Peter Cozzens
Episode #397-“Voices of the Civil War: Chickamauga” by the Editors of Time-Life Books
Episode #396-“Decisions at Chickamauga: The Twenty-four Critical Decisions that Defined the Battle” by Dave Powell
Episode #395-“Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale: The Battle of Chickamauga” by William Lee White
Episode #394-“Chickamauga 1863: Rebel Breakthrough” by Alexander Mendoza
Episode #393-“The Chickamauga Campaign: A Mad Irregular Battle” by David A Powell
Episode #392-“Gateway to the Confederacy: New Perspectives on the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns” edited by Evan C Jones and Wiley Sword
Episode #391-“The Maps of Chickamauga” by David A Powell and David Friedrichs
Episode #390-North & South magazine Volume 8 #6 (November 2005)
Episode #389-“Sabine Pass: The Confederacy’s Thermopylae” by Edward T Cotham Jr
Episode #388-“When the Wolf Came: The Civil War and the Indian Territory” by Mary Jane Warde
Episode #387-“Confederate Ironclad 1861-1865” by Angus Konstam
Episode #386-Blue & Gray magazine Vol. 10 #1 (October 1992)
Episode #385-North & South magazine Issue #2 (January 1998)
Episode #384-“Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Course of the Civil War” by David A Powell and Eric J Wittenberg
Episode #383-“The Stones River and Tullahoma Campaigns: This Army Does Not Retreat” by Christopher L Kolakowski
Episode #382-“Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry” by Russell Duncan
Episode #381-“Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops” by John David Smith
Episode #380-“Writing the Gettysburg Address” by Martin P Johnson… “Lincoln at Gettysburg” by Gary Wills… “The Gettysburg Gospel” by Gabor Boritt… “Long Remembered: Lincoln and His Fiver Versions of the Gettysburg Address”
Episode #379-“Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign” by Kent Masterson Brown and “Meade and Lee after Gettysburg: The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign, from Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House, July 14-31, 1863” by Jeffrey William Hunt
Episode #378-“A Strange and Blighted Land- Gettysburg: The Aftermath of a Battle” by Gregory A. Coco
Episode #377-“Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two Friends at the Turning Point of the Civil War” by Tom McMillan
Episode #376-“Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory” by Carol Reardon
Episode #375-“Pickett’s Charge: The Last Attack at Gettysburg” by Earl J Hess
Episode #374-“The Gettysburg Cyclorama: The Turning Point of the Civil War on Canvas” by Chris Brenneman and Sue Boardman
Episode #373-“Pickett’s Charge: Eyewitness Accounts at the Battle of Gettysburg” edited by Richard Rollins
Episode #372-“Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander” by Gary W Gallagher
Episode #371-“Civil War Artillery at Gettysburg: Organization, Equipment, Ammunition, and Operations” by Philip M Cole
Episode #370-“Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg: A Guide to the Most Famous Attack in American History” by James Hessler and Wayne Motts… and “Fury on the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg” by John M Archer
Episode #369-“Pickett’s Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863” by George R Stewart
Episode #368- licensed battlefield guides
Episode #367- battlefield videos on youtube and facebook made by Gettysburg park rangers
Episode #366-“Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg: The Battles for Brinkerhoff’s Ridge and East Cavalry Field, July 2-3, 1863” by Eric J. Wittenberg
Episode #365-“The Maps of the Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign” by Bradley M. Gottfried
Episode #364-“The Gettysburg Campaign in Numbers and Losses” by J David Petruzzi and Steven A Stanley
Episode #363-“Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native Sons Who Came Home to Fight as Confederate Soldiers” by Tom McMillan
Episode #362-“Gettysburg: Day Three” by Jeffry D Wert
Episode #361-“Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command” by Kent Masterson Brown
Episode #360-“Culp’s Hill at Gettysburg: The Mountain Trembled” and “East Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg: The Hour Was One of Horror” by John M Archer
Episode #359-“Gettysburg: Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill” by Harry W Pfanz
Episode #358-“Gettysburg Day Two: A Study in Maps” by John D Imhof
Episode #357- “The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers” by Richard Moe and Gettysburg Magazine, Issues 7 & 8 “Remember Harper’s Ferry! The Degradation, Humiliation, and Redemption of Colonel George L Willard’s Brigade” by Eric Campbell
Episode #356-“The Second Day at Gettysburg: The Attack and Defense of Cemetery Ridge, July 2, 1863” by David L Schultz and Scott L MIngus Sr
Episode #355-“Gettysburg’s Peach Orchard” by James A Hessler and Britt C Isenberg
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Episode #352-“Storming the Wheatfield: John Caldwell’s Union Division in the Gettysburg Campaign” by James M Smith II
Episode #351-“Gettysburg’s Bloody Wheatfield” by Jay Jorgensen
Episode #350-“Little Round Top: A Detailed Tour Guide” by Garry E. Adelman
Episode #349-“Twilight at Little Round Top: July 2, 1863- The Tide Turns at Gettysburg” by Glenn W. LaFantasie
Episode #348-“Devil’s Den: A History and Guide” by Garry E Adelman and Timothy H Smith
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Episode #344-“Gettysburg: The Meade-Sickles Controversy” by Richard A. Sauers
Episode #343- “Sickles at Gettysburg” by James A. Hessler
Episode #342-“Gettysburg: The Second Day” by Harry W. Pfanz
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Episode #338-“Searching for George Gordon Meade: The Forgotten Victor of Gettysburg” by Tom Huntington
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Episode #335-Blue & Gray Magazine Volume 30 Issue #3: Gettysburg Town Fight Special Issue
Episode #334-“Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina at the Battle of Gettysburg” by Rod Gragg
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Episode #332-“Gettysburg’s Coster Avenue: The Brickyard Fight and the Mural” by Mark H. Dunkelman
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Episode #329-“Gettysburg: Stories of Men and Monuments as Told by Battlefield Guides” by Frederick W. Hawthorne
Episode #328-“The Rashness of That Hour: Politics, Gettysburg, and the Downfall of Confederate Brigadier General Alfred Iverson” by Robert J. Wynstra
Episode #327-“The Generals of Gettysburg” by Larry Tagg
Episode #326-“Confrontation at Gettysburg” by John David Hoptak
Episode #325-“Three Days at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership” edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Episode #324-“Witness to Gettysburg” by Richard Wheeler
Episode #323-“Gettysburg: The First Day” by Harry W. Pfanz
Episode #322-“Those Damned Black Hats! The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign” by Lance J. Herdegen
Episode #321-“Gettysburg: The Story of the Battle with Maps” by the Editors of Stackpole Books
Episode #320-“A Field Guide to Gettysburg: Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People” by Carol Reardon & Tom Vossler
Episode #319-“Crisis at the Crossroads” by Warren W. Hassler Jr
Episode #318-“Gettysburg: Sentinels of Stone” by Timothy T. Isbell
Episode #317-“The Devil’s to Pay: John Buford at Gettysburg” by Eric J. Wittenberg
Episode #316-“Gettysburg, July 1” by David G. Martin
Episode #315-“Gettysburg: The Confederate High Tide” by Champ Clark and the Editors of Time-Life Books
Episode #314-“Beneath a Northern Sky: A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign” by Steven E. Woodworth
Episode #313-“Meade: The Price of Command, 1863-1865” by John G. Selby
Episode #312-“The Confederate Approach on Harrisburg: The Gettysburg Campaign’s Northernmost Reaches” by Cooper H. Wingert
Episode #311-“Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna River, June 1863” by Scott L Mingus Sr
Episode #310-“At the Forefront of Lee’s Invasion: Retribution, Plunder, and Clashing Cultures on Richard S Ewell’s Road to Gettysburg” by Robert J Wynstra
Episode #309-“Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg” by Eric J Wittenberg and J David Petruzzi
Episode #308-“The Cavalry at Gettysburg: A Tactical Study of Mounted Operations during the Civil War’s Pivotal Campaign, 9 June-14 July 1863” by Edward G. Longacre
Episode #307-“The Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg” by Eric J Wittenberg and Scott L Mingus Sr
Episode #306-“Richard S Ewell: A Soldier’s Life” by Donald C Pfanz
Episode #305-“Brandy Station 1863: First Step Towards Gettysburg” by Dan Beattie
Episode #304-“The Battle of Brandy Station” by Eric J. Wittenberg
Episode #303-“Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign” by Thomas J. Ryan
Episode #302-“The Maps of Gettysburg” by Bradley M. Gottfried and “Gettysburg Campaign Atlas” by Philip Laino
Episode #301-“Lincoln’s Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac” by Stephen W. Sears
Episode #300-“Lee’s Lieutenants: A Study in Command” by Douglas Southall Freeman
Episode #299-“Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E Lee Through His Private Letters” by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Episode #298-“Gettysburg” by Stephen W. Sears
Episode #297-“Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage” by Noah Andre Trudeau
Episode #296-“Voices of the Civil War: Vicksburg” by the Editors of Time-Life Books
Episode #295-“Port Hudson: Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi” by Lawrence Lee Hewitt
Episode #294-“Receding Tide: Vicksburg and Gettysburg- The Campaigns that Changed the Civil War” by Edwin C. Bearrs with J. Parker Hills
Episode #293-“Grant at Vicksburg: The General and the Siege” by Michael B. Ballard
Episode #292-“The Vicksburg Assaults, May 19-22, 1863” edited by Steven E. Woodworth & Charles D. Grear
Episode #291-“Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg” by Timothy B. Smith
Episode #290-“Triumph & Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign” by Terrence J. Winschel
Episode #289-“Lincoln’s Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation” by Douglas Waller
Episode #288-“The Vicksburg Campaign: March 29- May, 1863” by Steven E. Woodworth & Charles D. Grear
Episode #287-“Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi” by Michael B. Ballard
Episode #286-“The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson’s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi” by Timothy B. Smith
Episode #285-“Louisiana in the Civil War: Essays for the Sesquicentennial” by Terry L. Jones
Episode #284-“Vicksburg is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River” by William L. Shea & Terence J. Winschel
Episode #283-“War on the Mississippi: Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign” by Jerry Korn and the Editors of Time-Life Books
Episode #282- “Confederates in the Attic,” “Midnight Rising,” & “Spying on the South” by Tony Horwitz
Episode #281-“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life” by James Lee McDonough
Episode #280-“Holly Springs: Van Dorn, the CSS Arkansas, and the raid that saved Vicksburg” by Brandon B. Beck
Episode #279-“Pemberton: A Biography” by Michael B. Ballard
Episode #278-“Echoes of Glory: Illustrated Atlas of the Civil War” by the Editors of Time-Life Books
Episode #277-“The Campaign for Vicksburg” (3 volumes) by Edwin Bearss
Episode #276-“A House Divided: A Study of Statehood Politics and the Copperhead Movement in West Virginia” by Richard Orr Curry
Episode #275-“West Virginia and the Civil War” by Mark Snell
Episode #274-“The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson: The Mortal Wounding of the Confederacy’s Greatest Icon” by Chris Mackowski & Kristopher D. White
Episode #273-“Where Valor Proudly Sleeps: A History of Fredericksburg National Cemetery” by Donald C. Pfanz
Episode #272-“The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies” by Peter S Carmichael
Episode #271-Blue & Gray Magazine, Volume 30 Issue 1
Episode #270-“Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front: The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church” by Chris Mackowski & Kristopher D White
Episode #269-“The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War” by Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Episode #268-Blue & Gray Magazine, Volume 29 Issue 5
Episode #267-“Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend” by James I Robertson Jr and “Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson” by S.C. Gwynne
Episode #266-“Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath” edited by Gary W. Gallegher
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Episode #264-Blue & Gray Magazine, Volume 29 Issue 4
Episode #263-“Chancellorsville” by Stephen W. Sears
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Episode #261-“That Furious Struggle: Chancellorsville and the High Tide of the Confederacy” by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White
Episode #260-“Voices of the Civil War: Chancellorsville” by the Editors of Time-Life Books
Episode #259-“Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave” by Ernest B. Ferguson
Episode #258-“The Campaign of Chancellorsville” by John Bigelow Jr
Episode #257-“Commanding Lincoln’s Navy: Union Naval Leadership during the Civil War” by Stephen R. Taaffe
Episode #256-“USS Monitor: A Historic Ship Completes Its Final Voyage” by John D. Broadwater
Episode #255-“Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” by David W. Blight
Episode #254-“Lincoln’s Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation” by William C. Davis
Episode #253-“Fighting Joe Hooker” by Walter H. Hebert
Episode #252-“Galveston and the Civil War: An Island City in the Maelstrom” by James M. Schmidt
Episode #251-“Battle on the Bay: The Civil War Struggle for Galveston” by Edward T. Cotham, Jr.
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Episode #249-“The Maps of Fredericksburg” by Bradley M. Gottfried
Episode #248-“Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas” by John J. Hennessy
Episode #247-“The Peninsula Campaign & the Necessity for Emancipation: African-Americans and the Fight for Freedom” by Glenn David Brasher
Episode #246-“Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era” by James McPherson
Episode #245-“Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West” by Steven E. Woodworth
Episode #244-“History Lover’s Cookbook: Over 150 full-color photos inspired by nineteenth century recipes, anecdotes, and the Civil War” by Roxe Ann Peacock
Episode #243-“The Stones River and Tullahoma Campaigns: This Army Does Not Retreat” by Christopher L. Kolakowski
Episode #242-Blue & Gray magazine: Volume 28 Issue 6
Episode #241-“Stones River: The Forgotten Conflict between the Confederate Army of Tennessee and the Union Army of the Cumberland” by Larry J. Daniel
Episode #240-“No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River” by Peter Cozzens
Episode #239-“Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History” by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler
Episode #238-“Over Lincoln’s Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War” by Bruce Tap
Episode #237-“Don Troiani’s Civil War Soldiers” by Don Troiani and Earl J. Coates with Michael J. McAfee
Episode #236-Blue & Gray Magazine, Volume 25 Issues #4 & 5
Episode #235-“Lincoln’s White House: The People’s House in Wartime” by James B. Conroy
Episode #234-“The Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock” edited by Gary W. Gallagher
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Episode #232-“Simply Murder: The Battle of Fredericksburg” by Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White
Episode #231-“The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock” by Francis A. O’Reilly
Episode #230-“Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!” by George C. Rable
Episode #229-“Voices of the Civil War: Fredericksburg” by the Editors of Time-Life Books
Episode #228-“The Battle of Fredericksburg: We Cannot Escape History” by James K. Bryant
Episode #227-“Burnside” by William Marvel
Episode #226-“Lincoln’s Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac” by Stephen W. Sears
Episode #225-“Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, 1861-1867” by Andrew E. Masich
Episode #224-“Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation” by Earl J. Hess
Episode #223-“Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History” by David T. Gilbert
Episode #222-“Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign” by William L. Shea
Episode #221-Blue&Gray Magazine, Volume 24 Issue 4
Episode #220-Blue&Gray Magazine, Volume 19 Issue 6 (Summer 2002)
Episode #219-“Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones River” by Earl J. Hess
Episode #218-“Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation” by Timothy B. Smith
Episode #217-“The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka & Corinth” by Peter Cozzens
Episode #216-“American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant” by Ronald C. White
Episode #215-“Perryville Under Fire: The Aftermath of Kentucky’s Largest Civil War Battle” by Stuart W. Sanders
Episode #214-“Maney’s Confederate Brigade at the Battle of Perryville” by Stuart W. Sanders
Episode #213-“The Civil War at Perryville: Battling for the Bluegrass” by Christopher L. Kolakowski
Episode #212-“Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle” by Kenneth W. Noe
Episode #211-“Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State” by Anne E. Marshall
Episode #210-“Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia” by Brian D. McKnight
Episode #209;”All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862″ by Gerald J. Prokopowicz
Episode #208-“When the Ripe Pears Fell: The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky” by D. Warren Lambert
Episode #207-“General Edmund Kirby Smith, CSA” by Joseph H. Parks
Episode #206-“Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy” by Earl J. Hess
Episode #205-“The New York Times Disunion: A History of the Civil War” edited by Ted Widmer
Episode #204-“Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President” by Allen C. Guelzo
Episode #203-“Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America” by Allen C. Guelzo
Episode #202-“The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery” by Eric Foner
Episode #201-“The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South” by Bruce Levine.
Episode #200-“Lincoln’s Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union” by Louis P. Masur
Episode #199-“Antietam: Essays on the 1862 Maryland Campaign” edited by Gary W. Gallagher and “The Antietam Campaign” edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Episode #198-“Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam” by James M. McPherson
Episode #197-“The Gleam of Bayonets: The Battle of Antietam and Robert E. Lee’s Maryland Campaign, September 1862” by James V. Murfin
Episode #196-“The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution” by Richard Slotkin
Episode #195-“The Maryland Campaign of September 1862” by Ezra A. Carman, edited & annotated by Thomas G. Clemens
Episode #194-“A Field Guide to Antietam: Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People” by Carol Reardon & Tom Vossler
Episode #193-“Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam” by Stephen W. Sears
Episode #192-“Voices of the Civil War: Antietam” by the Editors of Time-Life Books
Episode #191-“The Bloodiest Day: The Battle of Antietam” by Ronald H. Bailey and the Editors of Time-Life Books
Episode #190-“Antietam Expedition Guide” by TravelBrains & The History Channel
Episode #189-“To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862” by D. Scott Hartwig
Episode #188-“The Battle of Antietam: The Bloodiest Day” by Ted Alexander
Episode #187-“The Maps of Antietam” by Bradley M. Gottfried, and the map of the Antietam Battlefield from the McElfresh Map Company
Episode #186-“Antietam 1862: The Civil War’s Bloodiest Day” by Norman S. Stevens
Episode #185-“Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory” by Brian Matthew Jordan
Episode #184-“Lee’s Maverick General: Daniel Harvey Hill” by Hal Bridges
Episode #183-“The Battle of South Mountain” by John David Hoptak
Episode #182-The Civil War Monitor magazine, Winter 2016 issue
Episode #181-“Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862” by Joseph L. Harsh
Episode #180-“The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs” by Robert O’Harrow Jr.
Episode #179-“Second Manassas: Longstreet’s Attack and the Struggle for Chinn Ridge” by Scott C. Patchan and “He Hath Loosed the Fateful Lightning: The Battle of Ox Hill (Chantilly) September 1, 1862” by Paul Taylor
Episode #178-“Summer Lightning: A Guide to the Second Battle of Manassas” by Matt Spruill III and Matt Spruill IV
Episode #177-“Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas” by John J. Hennessy
Episode #176-“Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness” by Earl J. Hess
Episode #175-“A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849” by Sidney Blumenthal.
Episode #174-“The American War: A History of the Civil War Era” by Gary W. Gallagher and Joan Waugh
Episode #173-“The Second Bull Run Campaign: July-August 1862” by David G. Martin
Episode #172-“Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain” by Robert K. Krick
Episode #171-“Second Manassas 1862: Robert E Lee’s Greatest Victory” by John Langellier
Episode #170-“General John Pope: A Life for the Nation” by Peter Cozzens
Episode #169-“Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War” edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Episode #168-“Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution” by James M. McPherson
Episode #167-“The Seven Days’ Battles: The War Begins Anew” by Judkin Browning
Episode #166-“Voices of the Civil War: The Seven Days” by the Editors of Time-Life Books
Episode #165-“A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee’s Triumph, 1862-1863” by Jeffry D. Wert
Episode #164-“Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles” by Brian K. Burton
Episode #163-“To the Gates of Richmond” by Stephen W. Sears
Episode #162-“Mr. Lincoln’s Army” by Bruce Catton
Episode #161-“The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula & the Seven Days” edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Episode #160-“The Seven Days: The Emergence of Lee” by Clifford Dowdey
Episode #159-“Seven Days Battles 1862: Lee’s Defense of Richmond” by Angus Konstam
Episode #158-“Davis & Lee at War” by Steven E. Woodworth
Episode #157-The Great Courses’ “Robert E. Lee and His High Command” by Gary W. Gallagher
Episode #156-“The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference” edited by Margaret Wagner, Gary Gallagher, and Paul Finkelman
Episode #155-“The Untold Civil War: Exploring the Human Side of War” by James Robertson (edited by Neil Kagan)
Episode #154-“Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier’s Life” by Donald C. Pfanz
Episode #153-“Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic” by Robert K. Krick
Episode #152-“Lee’s Lieutenants: A Study in Command” by Douglas Southall Freeman, a one-volume abridgement by Stephen W. Sears
Episode #151-“Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War” edited by J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher
Episode #150-“The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862” edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Episode #149-“Jackson’s Valley Campaign: November 1861- June 1862” by David G. Martin
Episode #148-“Three Days in the Shenandoah: Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester” by Gary Ecelbarger
Episode #147-“Stonewall Jackson’s 1862 Valley Campaign: War Comes to the Homefront” by Jonathan A. Noyalas
Episode #146-“Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Spring 1862” by Robert G. Tanner
Episode #145-“Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson Outmaneuvers the Union” by Clayton & James Donnell
Episode #144-“Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign” by Peter Cozzens
Episode #143-“Decoying the Yanks: Jackson’s Valley Campaign” by Champ Clark and the Editors of Time-Life Books
Episode #142-“We are in for it! The First Battle of Kernstown” by Gary L. Ecelbarger
Episode #141-National Geographic’s “Atlas of the Civil War” edited by Neil Kagan with text by Stephen G. Hyslop
Episode #140-“Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives” edited by Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon
Episode #139-“Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson” by S.C. Gwynne
Episode #138-“Mighty Stonewall” by Frank Vandiver
Episode #137-“Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection” edited by Neil Kagan & Stephen G. Hyslop
Episode #136-“Fair Oaks 1862: McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign” by Angus Konstam
Episode #135-“The Civil War: An Illustrated History” by Geoffrey Ward with Ric Burns & Ken Burns
Episode #134-“Ships of the Civil War (1861-1865): An Illustrated Guide to the Fighting Vessels of the Union and the Confederacy” by Kevin J. Dougherty
Episode #133-Civil War Times magazine, March 2001 “The Men Who Made Hancock ‘Superb'”
Episode #132-“The Peninsula Campaign & the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans & the Fight for Freedom” by Glenn David Brasher
Episode #131-“Forward to Richmond: McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign” by Ronald H. Bailey and the Editors of Time-Life Books
Episode #130-“The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: A Military Analysis” by Kevin Dougherty with J. Michael Moore
Episode #129-“Echoes of Glory” Illustrated Atlas of the Civil War” by the Editors of Time-Life Books
Episode #128-“Mr. Lincoln’s Army” by Bruce Catton
Episode #127-“McClellan’s War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union” by Ethan S. Rafuse
Episode #126-“Lincoln and His Generals” by T. Harry Williams
Episode #125-“The West Point History of the Civil War” by the United States Military Academy
Episode #124-“Shiloh: Conquer or Perish” by Timothy B. Smith
Episode #123-“Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War” by Charles Bracelen Flood
Episode #122-“The Soldier’s View: The Civil War Art of Keith Rocco”
Episode #121-“Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862” by O. Edward Cunningham
Episode #120-Blue & Gray magazine, Volume XIV Issues 3&4
Episode #119-“The Shiloh Campaign” edited by Steven E. Woodworth
Episode #118-“Shiloh: In Hell before Night” by James Lee McDonough
Episode #117-“Generals South, Generals North: The Commanders of the Civil War Reconsidered” by Alan Axelrod
Episode #116-“Shiloh: Bloody April” by Wiley Sword
Episode #115-“Shiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil War” by Larry J. Daniel
Episode #114-“Shiloh 1862: The Death of Innocence” by James R. Arnold
Episode #113-“The West Point Atlas of War: The Civil War” – Chief Editor: Vincent J. Esposito
Episode #112-“Shiloh: Confederate High Tide in the Heartland” by Steven E. Woodworth
Episode #111-“Shiloh 1862” by Winston Groom
Episode #110- “The Civil War in North Carolina” by John G. Barrett
Episode #109- “Ironclads and Columbiads: The Civil War in North Carolina-The Coast” by William R. Trotter
Episode #108- “Duel Between the First Ironclads” by William C. Davis
Episode #107- “Confederate Ironclad vs Union Ironclad: Hampton Roads 1862” by Ron Field
Episode #106- “Hampton Roads 1862: First Clash of the Ironclads” by Angus Konstam
Episode #105- “The Confederate Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1861-1865” edited by William N. Still, Jr.
Episode #104- Music CD “Dream of a Good Death: New Songs of the Old War” by Clark Hansbarger
Episode #103- “Ben McCulloch and the Frontier Military Tradition” by Thomas W. Cutrer
Episode #102- “Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West” by William L. Shea and Earl J. Hess
Episode #101- “The Battle of Pea Ridge: The Civil War Fight for the Ozarks” by James R. Knight
Episode #100- “Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War” by Christian McWhirter
Episode #99- “The Battle of Glorieta Pass: A Gettysburg in the West, March 26-28, 1862” by Thomas S. Edrington and John Taylor… “Sibley’s New Mexico Campaign” by Martin Hardwick Hall
Episode #98- “The Battle of Glorieta: Union Victory in the West” by Don E. Alberts… Blue & Gray magazine June, 1994
Episode #97- “Bloody Valverde: A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862” by John Taylor… America’s Civil War Magazine, January 2013
Episode #96- “The Civil War in the West” by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr
Episode #95- “A Battle from the Start: the Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest” by Brian Steel Wills
Episode #94- “The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi” by Earl J. Hess
Episode #93- Blue & Gray magazine Vol.28#4… North & South magazine Vol.7#2
Episode #92- “Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth” by Stephen D. Engle
Episode #91- “The Battle of Fort Donelson: No Terms but Unconditional Surrender” by James R. Knight
Episode #90- “Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862” by Kendall D. Gott
Episode #89- “Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to the Confederate Heartland” by Benjamin F. Cooling
Episode #88- “Mill Springs: Campaign and Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky” by Kenneth A. Hafendorfer
Episode #87- “The Battle of Mill Springs Kentucky” by Stuart W. Sanders
Episode #86- “The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War” by Donald J. Eicher
Episode #85- “The Civil War Day by Day, An Almanac, 1861-1865” by E.B. Long with Barbara Long
Episode #84- “Caution and Cooperation: The American Civil War in British-American Relations” by Phillip E. Myers
Episode #83- “Blue & Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations” by Howard Jones
Bonus Episode- “Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics” by Charles P. Roland
Bonus Episode- “Mr. Lincoln’s Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron” by Gary D. Joiner
Episode #82- “The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South” by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr
Episode #81- “Decision in the Heartland: The Civil War in the West” by Steven E. Woodworth
Episode #80- “U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth” by Joan Waugh
Episode #79- “Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865” by Brooks D. Simpson
Episode #78- “Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment” by Willie Lee Rose
Episode #77- “Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in America, 1861-1865” by James Oakes
Episode #76- “Now for the Contest: Coastal & Oceanic naval Operations in the Civil War” by William H. Roberts
Episode #75- “Over Lincoln’s Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War” by Bruce Tap
Episode #74- “Controversies and Commanders of the Civil War: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac” by Stephen W. Sears
Episode #73- “A Little Short of Boats: The Battle of Ball’s Bluff and Edwards Ferry” by James A. Morgan
Episode #72- “George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon” by Stephen W. Sears
Episode #71- “September Blood: The Battle of Carnifex Ferry” by Terry Lowry… “R.E. Lee’s Cheat Mountain Campaign” by Jack Zinn
Episode #70- “The Civil War in Coastal North Carolina” by John S. Carbone
Episode #69- “Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire” by Tom Chaffin
Episode #68- North & South magazine Issue 3 (February 1998)
Episode #67- “Wilson’s Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It” by William Garrett Piston & Richard W. Hatcher III
Episode #66- “Campaign for Wilson’s Creek: The Fight for Missouri” by Jeffrey L. Patrick
Episode #65- “The Civil War in Missouri: A Military History” by Louis S. Gerteis
Episode #64- North & South magazine Vol.2#5
Episode #63- “The Body of John Merryman: Abraham Lincoln and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus” by Brian McGinty
Episode #62- America’s Civil War magazine June, 2009
Episode #61- “The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine” by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein
Episode #60- “The New York Times’ Disunion: Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln’s Election to the Emancipation Proclamation” edited by Ted Widmer
Episode #59- “The Civil War in the East: Struggle, Stalemate, and Victory” by Brooks D. Simpson
Episode #58- “Battle at Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War” by William C. Davis
Episode #57- “Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend” by James I. Robertson, Jr
Episode #56- Blue & Gray magazine Vol.27#5
Episode #55- “The First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence July 18-21, 1861” by John Hennessy
Episode #54- “A Single Grand Victory: The First Campaign and Battle of Manassas” by Ethan S. Rafuse
Episode #53- “Donnybrook: The Battle of Bull Run, 1861” by David Detzer
Episode #52- “The Maps of First Bull Run: An Atlas of the First Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign, including the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, June-October 1861” by Bradley M. Gottfried
Episode #51- “For Cause & Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War” by James M. McPherson… “The Union War” by Gary W. Gallagher… “The Confederate War” by Gary D. Gallagher
Bonus Episode- “This Great Struggle: America’s Civil War” by Steven E. Woodworth
Episode #50- “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery” by Eric Foner… “Big Bethel: The First Battle” by John V. Quarstein… “Battle of Big Bethel: Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia” by J. Michael Cobb, Edward B. Hicks, and Wythe Holt
Episode #49- “Civil War Artillery at Gettysburg: Organization, Equipment, Ammunition, and Operations” by Philip M. Cole
Gettysburg Address Book Recommendations- “Lincoln at Gettysburg” by Garry Wills… “The Gettysburg Gospel” by Gabor Boritt… “Writing the Gettysburg Address” by Martin P. Johnson… “Long Remembered; Lincoln and the Five Versions of the Gettysburg Address” with commentary by Douglas L. Wilson… “The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Novel” written by John Hennessey and art by Aaron McConnell… “The Gettysburg Story” (dvd) produced & directed by Jake Boritt
Episode #48- North & South magazine Vol.2#2
Episode #47- “Company Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show” by Sam Watkins
Episode #46- “The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth” by Earl J. Hess
Episode #45- “The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy” and “The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union” by Bell Irvin Wiley
Episode #44- North & South magazine Vol.7#7… Blue & Gray magazine Vol.10#6
Episode #43- “An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War” by Charles P. Roland
Episode #42- “The Last Battle of the Civil War: United States Versus Lee, 1861-1883” by Anthony P. Gaughan
Episode #41- “The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War” by Donald Stoker
Episode #40- “Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters” by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Episode #39- “War on the Waters: The Union & Confederate Navies, 1861-1865” by James M. McPherson
Episode #38- “The West Point Atlas of War: The Civil War” chief editor Brig. Gen. Vincent J. Esposito… “A Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War” by Craig L. Symonds… “National Geographic Atlas of the Civil War: A Comprehensive Guide to the Tactics and Terrain of Battle” by neil Kagan & Stephen G. Hyslop…”Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War” by Earl B. McElfresh… “Illustrated Atlas of the Civil War” (Echoes of Glory Series) by the editors of Time-Life Books
Episode #37- “The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days that Shook the Union” by John Lockwood & Charles Lockwood
Episode #36- North & South magazines Vol.5#4 & Vol.12#1
Episode #35- “Second Sumter: The Struggle for Pensacola” by Eric Niderost, in Civil War Quarterly Early Summer 2013/Premier Issue
Episode #34- “Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War” by David Detzer
Episode #33- “P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray” by T. Harry Williams
Episode #32- “Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man” by Walter Stahr
Episode #31- “A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865” by Russell F. Weigley
Episode #30- “Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War” by Maury Klein
Episode #29- “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Episode #28- “Lincoln as President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter of 1860-1861” by Harold Holzer
Episode #27- “The Confederate Nation: 1861-1865” by Emory M. Thomas
Episode #26- “Jefferson Davis, American” by William J. Cooper, Jr
Bonus Episode- “Life in Civil War America” by Michael O. Varhola
Episode #25- “Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America” by William C. Davis
Episode #24- “Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War” by Charles B. Dew
Episode #23- “We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860- April 1861” by William J. Cooper
Episode #22- “Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought On the Civil War” by Douglas R. Egerton
Episode #21- “Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech that Made Abraham Lincoln President” by Harold Holzer
Episode #20- “Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the War” by Tony Horwitz
Episode #19- “Stephen A. Douglas” by Robert Johannsen… “Lincoln” by David Herbert Donald
Episode #18- “Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America” by Allen C. Guelzo
Episode #17- “A. Lincoln” by Ronald C. White, Jr
Episode #16- “Abraham Lincoln” by Benjamin P. Thomas
Episode #15- “The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics” by Don E. Fehrenbacher
Episode #14- “James Buchanan” by Jean H. Baker
Episode #13- “The Caning: The Assault that Drove America to Civil War” by Stephen Puleo
Episode #12- “Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era” by Nicole Etcheson
Episode #11- “Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly” by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Episode #10- “The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics” by James Oakes
Episode #9- “Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War” by Bruce Levine
Episode #8- “On the Brink of Civil War: The Compromise of 1850 and How It Changed the Course of American History” by John C. Waugh
Episode #7- “Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox- Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and their Brothers” by John C. Waugh
Episode #6- “A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent” by Robert W. Merry
Episode #5- “So Far from God: The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848” by John S.D. Eisenhower
Episode #4- “Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859” by Elizabeth R. Varon
Episode #3- “The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America” by Robert Pierce Forbes
Episode #2- “What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848” by Daniel Walker Howe… “Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era” by James McPherson
Episode #1- “The American Heritage New History of the Civil War” written by Bruce Catton