Episodes

  • Episode 528: Gettysburg

    Episode 528: Gettysburg
    Mar 24 2026
    In three days in Pennsylvania in 1863, the American Civil War turns forever.

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    20 mins
  • Episode 527: The War Goes North

    Episode 527: The War Goes North
    Mar 20 2026
    The Battle of Antietam drives President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. But Robert Lee wins two dramatic victories in this aftermath at the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.

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    33 mins
  • Episode 526: The Seven Days Battles

    Episode 526: The Seven Days Battles
    Mar 18 2026
    Two ironclads face off to change the shape of naval warfare while Robert E. Lee emerges from the Seven Days Battles as the lead Confederate commander.

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    24 mins
  • Episode 525: Shiloh

    Episode 525: Shiloh
    Mar 16 2026
    The Battle of Shiloh starts as an apparent Confederate victory, but the loss of General Johnston and the resulting chaos dooms the South. Meanwhile, in New Orleans, the Anaconda Plan takes hold.

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    18 mins
  • Episode 524: Bull Run

    Episode 524: Bull Run
    Mar 15 2026
    When the American Civil War begins, everyone expects a picnic. The Battle of Bull Run erases those false expectations.

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    19 mins
  • Episode 523: A House Divided

    Episode 523: A House Divided
    Mar 13 2026
    From Nat Turner's Rebellion to the Compromise of 1850, Americans did everything they could to avoid the Civil War.... and failed.

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    40 mins
  • Episode 522: The Sun Never Sets

    Episode 522: The Sun Never Sets
    Mar 6 2026
    In the 19th Century, Europeans carved up the globe with devastating consequences.

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    29 mins
  • Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity

    Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity
    Mar 3 2026
    In the United States today, there is no faith more dominant than Christianity. In Chosen Land, historian Matthew Avery Sutton chronicles Christians’ five-hundred-year endeavor to turn North America into their version of the kingdom of God, revealing the fruitful and dynamic entanglement between the history of America and the history of American Christianity.

    In the centuries after Christianity first arrived on American shores, colonizers and colonized from New England to Spanish California practiced many varieties of the faith. After the founding of the United States, the nation’s lack of a state religion forced new and evolving strains of Christianity to battle for potential adherents, as they still do to this day. As American Christianity has bent, fractured, and adapted to changing times, Christian belief has shaped everything from the promise of Manifest Destiny to Ronald Reagan’s approach to the Cold War, the rise of the Southern Lost Cause narrative to the triumphs of the civil rights movement.

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    42 mins