The Civil War: Exploring History One Week at a Time

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

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A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom

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

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Jackson

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Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free

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Two Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World

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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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The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government

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The Civil War Collection: The Complete Story of America's Epic Struggle

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

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To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian

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

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This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War

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D-Day: June 6, 1944 -- The Climactic Battle of WWII

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Antietam: Military Accounts of the Bloodiest Battle in American History

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Valley Forge

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Shiloh, 1862

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Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

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

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To America

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

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William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life

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Lee: A Biography

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The Bloody Shirt: Terror after Appomattox

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Lost Triumph: Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg--And Why It Failed

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

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Long Time Gone: Neighbors Divided by Civil Way

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Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War

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

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Lincoln's Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months That Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War

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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

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

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

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

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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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1776

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

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

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The Book of Charlie

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

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The Wright Brothers

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

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Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition

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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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The Untold History of the United States

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Up From Slavery

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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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Dragonfire: Four Days That (Almost) Changed America

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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

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Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

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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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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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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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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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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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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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#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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64 Hitler's American Friends - Charles Lindbergh and 'America First': Part 5: On Charles Lindbergh and his political campaign of anti-Semitism

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#12 BLEEDING KANSAS: In which we talk about Stephen Douglas's sponsorship of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the ensuing violence in "Bleeding Kansas," & the rise of the Republican Party as a direct result of Northern outrage over the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

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Max Boot: The Road Not Taken: Author Max Boot returns to the Pritzker Military Museum & Library to talk about his book "The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam"

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Episode 1: Currahee (with Ron Livingston)

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150 Woody Holton, Abigail Adams: Revolutionary Speculator: Abigail Adams lived through and participated in the American Revolution. As the wife of John Adams, she used her position to famously remind Adams and his colleagues to "remember the ladies" when they created laws for the new, independent United...

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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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American History Tellers: The Underground Railroad

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American History Tellers: The Underground Railroad

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The Underground Railroad | The Light of Freedom | 1

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Reconstructed: In Search of the Promised Land: In part two of our Reconstructed series, we travel to Promised Land, SC to learn how the newly freed reunited with lost family, acquired land, and built communities. And we visit a group of Black families currently starting their own town in Georgia.

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Tulsa Race Massacre - The Promised Land | 1

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Woody Holton, "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" (Simon and Schuster, 2021): An interview with Woody Holton

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22. The Czar Is Dead

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304 Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth: Juneteenth is a state holiday that commemorates June 19, 1865, the day slavery ended in Texas. Over the last decade, a push to make Juneteenth a national holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States has gained momentum. What do we...

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TSE 1232: Best Sellers In History Series 2 - "Abraham Lincoln": Best Sellers In History Series 2 - "Abraham Lincoln" This is the second episode from the Best Sellers in History series. This series talks about some of the most successful people and sellers in history. We’ll talk about who they are and what made...

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Slavery in the U.S. Analyzed by a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lawyer and Historian (Ed Larson): New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slavery or a landmark in the antislavery movement? We...

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Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon and Schuster, 2023): An interview with Ilyon Woo

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Clotilda: The Last U.S. Slave Ship

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The Black Congressmen of Reconstruction: Death of Representation

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133 Patrick Breen, The Nat Turner Revolt: The institution of African slavery in North America began in late August 1619 and persisted until the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States in December 1865. Over those 246 years, many slaves plotted and conspired...

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The Abolition Movement of the 1830s

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109: What a Drag Part 2

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The Burning of Black Tulsa: This episode includes disturbing language including racial slurs. In the early 20th century, Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was an epicenter of Black economic influence in the United States. However, in the early hours of June 1, 1921, a white mob — sanctioned by the Tulsa police — swept through the community burning and looting homes and businesses, and killing residents. A century later, the question before Congress, the courts and the United States as a whole is: What would justice look like? Guest: Brent Staples, a member of the New York Times editorial board.