Podcast Episodes
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History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 13: Gettysburg
The 1863 Battle of Gettysburg stopped Robert E. Lee’s second invasion of the North. It was the deadliest battle of the Civil War, with over 50,000 casualties during the three day battle, a scale of suffering never seen before or since in America. The Union won...
September 1918: War, Plague, and The World Series
In the late summer of 1918, a division of Massachusetts militia volunteers led the first unified American fighting force into battle in France, turning the tide of World War I. Meanwhile, the world’s deadliest pandemic—the Spanish Flu—erupted in Boston and its...
6 Historical Figures Who Deserve Their Own Movie—History Unplugged Meets 1001 Stories Podcast
Historical biopics perform a great service. These movies remind the world of people that would have otherwise fallen into obscurity: Oscar Schindler (Schindler’s List), John Nash (A Beautiful Mind), and Solomon Northup (12 Years a Slave). In this episode I am...
The Story of Bravo, The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History
Today’s guest is Stephan Talty, author of the new book,Saving Bravo, which comes out October 30. Talty tells the never-before-told story of one of the greatest rescue missions not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War. In 1972, the Vietnam War was a...History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 12: (Vicksburg 2 of 2)
Welcome to the second part in our episodes on the Vicksburg Campaign, one of the most consequential Civil War battles in the Western theatre and what many historians consider to be the turning point of the war. Grant’s Vicksburg campaign is considered one of the...
History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 11: Vicksburg (1 of 2)
In the next two episodes Scott and James will discuss the Siege of Vicksburg. In the summer of 1863, Grant’s Army of the Tennessee came to Vicksburg, located on a high bluff converged on Vicksburg, a Mississippi town on the same river. Union occupation of the town was...
History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 10: Battle of Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville is considered Robert E. Lee’s masterpiece. His reputation as a military genius was sealed by fighting an incredibly successful offensive battle despite being outnumbered 2-to-1 and launching attacks on multiple fronts. After another...
History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 9: The Battle of Fredericksburg
Following McClellan’s disastrous Union loss at Antietam, Lincoln replaced him with Ambrose Burnside, who planned to march to the city of Fredericksburg, getting there before Lee and possibly marching all the way to Richmond. But once they confronted the...
History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 8: Sidetrack Episode on Emancipation
The entire point of the Civil War was to end slavery, right? Not exactly, and definitely not at the beginning of the War. The North went to war strictly to save the Union and had little interest in abolishing slavery in the South. The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863...
