238 Episodes

  1. A Final Two-Year Anniversary of HTDS Bonus: The Death of Elmer Ellsworth

    Published: 9/23/2019

  2. Crossover w/ 1865 - Lindsay Graham and Steve Walters

    Published: 9/19/2019

  3. 47: Bull Run, Trent Affair, the Merrimack, & Fort Donelson: The Early Days of the Civil War

    Published: 9/16/2019

  4. 46: The Civil War Begins: Fort Sumter, Secession, & Raising Armies

    Published: 9/2/2019

  5. 45: Volume IV Epilogue

    Published: 8/19/2019

  6. 44: Abraham Lincoln Becomes President of the Divided States of America

    Published: 8/5/2019

  7. 43: Honest Abe, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, & John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

    Published: 7/22/2019

  8. 42: Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave

    Published: 7/8/2019

  9. 41: Kansas! (Bleeding Kansas, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, & Caning of Charles Sumner)

    Published: 6/24/2019

  10. 40: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention & the Explosion of Social Reform

    Published: 6/10/2019

  11. 39: The California Gold Rush and the Compromise of 1850

    Published: 5/27/2019

  12. 38: The (Early) Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

    Published: 5/13/2019

  13. 37: La Amistad Slave Rebellion and the Rise of Abolitionism

    Published: 4/29/2019

  14. Volume III Epilogue

    Published: 4/15/2019

  15. 36: Mexican-American War (Part 4): Los Niños Héroes, St. Patrick’s Battalion, & the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    Published: 4/1/2019

  16. 35: Mexican-American War (Part 3): Nuevo México and the Final Push from Vera Cruz

    Published: 3/18/2019

  17. 34: Mexican-American War (Part 2): The Pathfinder, the Bear Flag Revolt, y Los Californios

    Published: 3/4/2019

  18. 33: Mexican-American War (Part 1): From the Nueces River to the Rio Grande

    Published: 2/18/2019

  19. 32: Mormonism and the Mormon Trail

    Published: 2/4/2019

  20. 31: The California Trail: From the Donner Party to the Gold Rush

    Published: 1/21/2019

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