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76: Reconstruction (Part 4): The Battle of Liberty Place and the Mississippi Plan
Oct 26, 2020“Hang Kellogg! We’ll fight!” This is the story of the end of Reconstruction. Voter fraud and intimidation has made Louisiana’s 1872 Gubernatorial election a mess. So, when a Federal judge and Republ...
75: Reconstruction (Part 3): The Rise of the KKK and the First Black Men in Government
Oct 12, 2020“Boys, let us get up a club or society of some description.” This is the story of Reconstruction peaking and its opponents organizing to fight back. With Radical Republicans at the helm of Reconstru...
74: Reconstruction (Part 2): The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
Sep 28, 2020"The office has come to me unsought; I commence its duties untrammeled. I bring to it a conscious desire and determination to fill it to the best of my ability to the satisfaction of the people. " Th...
73: Reconstruction (Part 1): The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Sep 14, 2020“You are placed in a position where you have the power to save or destroy us; to bless or blast us--I mean our whole race.” This is the story of the first US Presidency to end in impeachment. This is ...
72: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Aug 31, 2020“Sic semper tyrannis!” This is the story of deception. Conspiracy. Assassination. The handsome, 26-year-old successful actor John Wilkes Booth has sympathized with the Confederacy since the war bega...
71: Revisiting the Hamilton/Burr Duel: An Affair of Honor
Aug 17, 2020"Adieu best of wives and best of women." We’re interrupting our usual chronological walk through US history today to bring you a remastered, new sound design take on Episode 22, “An Affair of Honor: A...
70: Epilogue: The Civil War Comes to a Close
Aug 03, 2020After nearly a full year of covering only four years of US history, we are done with the Civil War. It’s time for an epilogue! Greg and Cielle talk big picture and bring in some intriguing stories tha...
69: Surrender at Appomattox: The Last Days of the Civil War
Jul 20, 2020“I feel that it is … my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood, by asking you to surrender … the army of Northern Virginia. Very respectfully, U. S. Grant.” This...
68: Sherman's March to the Sea and the Thirteenth Amendment
Jul 06, 2020“I can make the march, and make Georgia howl!” This is the story of the March to the Sea and the 13th Amendment. William Tecumseh “Cump” Sherman describes war as two things: “cruel” and “hell.” Acti...
67: Ending 1864: The Battles of the Crater, Mobile Bay, Centralia, and Franklin
Jun 22, 2020“Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!” This is the story of the Civil War in late 1864. Battles of significance are happening all across the country, and many of them are quite odd or unique: Pennsyl...