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Encore: The Walker Affair | The Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny
Season 49 Episode 1
In the mid-1800s, the United States was full of adventurers and entrepreneurs looking to take advantage of the country’s ever-expanding boundaries. O…
3 years, 8 months ago
Civil War | Finding Freedom
Season 48 Episode 8
During the Civil War, Black people in America took the opportunity to free themselves and to serve the Union cause. At great personal risk, tens of t…
3 years, 8 months ago
Civil War | Bind Up the Nation's Wounds
Season 48 Episode 7
In early 1865, after four long years of bloodshed, the Confederacy was on the brink of defeat. General William Tecumseh Sherman marched his army thro…
3 years, 8 months ago
Civil War | March To The Sea
Season 48 Episode 6
In 1864, Ulysses S. Grant took charge of the entire Union Army and laid out his ambitious plans to finally win the war. Grant pursued Lee in Virginia…
3 years, 8 months ago
Civil War | Gettysburg
Season 48 Episode 5
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee made a daring bid for victory. He marched his army north to invade Pennsylvania. For three sweltering da…
3 years, 8 months ago
Civil War | The Fires at Home
Season 48 Episode 4
As the Civil War raged on, families on the homefront faced increasingly heavy tolls, enduring crippling economic turmoil, food shortages and explosiv…
3 years, 9 months ago
Civil War | Emancipation
Season 48 Episode 3
The Civil War began as an effort to hold the country together. Few Northern soldiers marched into battle to end slavery. But tens of thousands of ens…
3 years, 9 months ago
Civil War | First Blood
Season 48 Episode 2
On April 19th, 1861, an angry mob of Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore tried to stop a regiment of Union soldiers rushing to protect the capitol.…
3 years, 9 months ago
Civil War | The Gathering Storm
Season 48 Episode 1
Over the first decades of the 19th century, Americans fought over whether slavery should be allowed to expand into newly settled western territories.…
3 years, 9 months ago
Encore: The Age of Jackson | A Nation Divided
Season 46 Episode 7
The Age of Jackson was a time of intense change and tremendous growth in the United States. But it was not without controversy. In the years leading …
3 years, 10 months ago