The Civil War: Exploring History One Week at a Time

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Thomas Jefferson

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Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year

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

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Frank and Jesse James in the Civil War: The History of the Bushwhackers Who Became Outlaws of the Wild West

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Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989

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Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson

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Andrew Jackson: A Captivating Guide to the Man Who Served as the Seventh President of the United States

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Civil War 101: Understand America’s Greatest Conflict Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It

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American Revolution: The War for Independence and the Birth of the United States

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Shiloh, 1862

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Lee: A Biography

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Reminiscences of a Rebel: The True Adventures of a Confederate Soldier

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The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville

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George Mason: The Founding Father Who Gave Us the Bill of Rights

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Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

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A Stillness at Appomattox

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Antietam: Military Accounts of the Bloodiest Battle in American History

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Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle

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Mad Anthony Wayne: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Revolutionary War General

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Without Warning: The Saga of Gettysburg, A Reluctant Union Hero, and the Men He Inspired

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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War

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Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War

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Gettysburg Voices from the Front

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The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier

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1777: Tipping Point at Saratoga

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This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War

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The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 18

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Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea

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Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

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The Culper Ring: The History and Legacy of the Revolutionary War's Most Famous Spy Ring

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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

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Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett

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1776

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Sins of the Founding Father: George Washington, the Indigenous Tribes, and the Decisions that Shaped America’s Future

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American 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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John Adams

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UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There

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Land of Delusion: Out on the edge with the crackpots and conspiracy-mongers remaking our shared reality

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Summary: Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’ Neill & Dan Piepenbring: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included

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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

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The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition

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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

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

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

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The Untold History of the United States

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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

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Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

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Letter from Birmingham Jail

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The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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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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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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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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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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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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Best of - David McCullough, Stephen Ambrose and David Herbert Donald: Time Travelers: It is the rare writer who can make history so compelling, so alive, that people will flock to read it. David McCullough, who died last Sunday, was one of those writers. He was the author of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books: one about President Harry Truman and one about President John Adams. In honor of Mr. McCullough, we are reposting this episode from 2020 which featured him and two other great presidential historians: Stephen Ambrose and David Herbert Donald. They talk here about their subjects as if they had gone back in time and returned, breathless, to share the stories they'd heard. And each writer explains how he fell under the spell of history and made it his life's work.

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Episode 2: Day of Days (with John Orloff and Richard Loncraine)

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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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#418 Theodore Roosevelt's Wild Kingdom: The story of Theodore Roosevelt -- naturalist, hunter and conservationist -- with special guest Ken Burns discussing his new documentary mini-series The American Buffalo.

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TOM HORN Ep. 3 | “The Johnson County War”

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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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Prologue (with Tom Hanks)

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TOM HORN Ep. 5 | “The Hunt for Butch and Sundance”

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Bill O'Reilly | Killing the Witches: James and Bill O'Reilly embark on a harrowing journey back to the Salem Witch Trials through O'Reilly's latest book, "Killing The Witches." The discussion unveils the madness of the era, the emergence of a young Benjamin Franklin, and the profound impact of unchecked religious fervor on the course of American history.

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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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John Stryker ‘Tilt’ Meyer: Across the Fence: John Stryker Meyer is a highly decorated Special Operations combat veteran, reporter, and author.

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Episode 1: Currahee (with Ron Livingston)

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Encore: The WWII Home Front | Arsenal of Democracy | 1

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

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Episode 3: Carentan (with Capt. Dale Dye and Matthew Settle)

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Lecture 6 - Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850: In this lecture, Professor Blight discusses some of the conflicts, controversies, and compromises that led up to the Civil War. After analyzing Frederick Douglass's 1852 Fourth of July speech and the inherent conflict between American slavery and American freedom, the lecture moves into a lengthy discussion of the war with Mexico in the 1840s. Professor Blight explains why northerners and southerners made "such a fuss" over the issue of slavery's expansion into the western territories. The lecture ends with the crisis over California's admission to statehood and the Compromise of 1850. Transcript Lecture Page

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LEGENDS Ep. 1 | “The Coffeyville Raid”: On October 5th, 1892, the Dalton Gang attempted one of the most daring robberies in the history of the West. Armed with Winchester rifles, they tried to rob two banks at the same time in broad daylight in Coffeyville, Kansas. The result was a running...

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Episode 5: Crossroads (with Erik Jendresen)

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BUTCH & SUNDANCE Ep. 2 | “Rustlers and Robbers”: Bob Parker begins a rustling operation that contributes to the Johnson County War in Wyoming. He adopts the name Butch Cassidy and goes to trial for the alleged theft of a horse. Meanwhile, Sundance lives the life of a drifting cowboy until he robs his first train.

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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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TOM HORN Ep. 2 | “Pinkerton Detective”

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BUTCH & SUNDANCE Ep. 4 | “Bolivia”: Butch and Sundance travel to South America to outrun the Pinkertons and they take Sundance’s girlfriend, Etta Place, with them.

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Surviving Auschwitz: January 27, 1945. This week, we commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, one of Nazi Germany's largest concentration and extermination camps. But what did liberation actually mean and is the full story being forgotten?

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Episode 345-Interview with Joe Lee about his book Forgiveness