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Historical Controversies — 92 episodes
Life After Shiloh: Tory Rule
Reefer Madness: Government Efforts to Criminalize Marijuana
"A Glittering Lie" — The True Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh, Part 4: "Tell My Mother I Died Like A Soldier"
The Battle of Shiloh, Part 3: The Hornet’s Nest
The Battle of Shiloh, Part 2: The Furies of Hell
The Battle of Shiloh, Part 1: I "Would Fight Them If They Were A Million"
The Battle of Pea Ridge, Part 2: Elkhorn Tavern
The Battle of Pea Ridge, Part 1: Confederate Disaster at Leetown
The Emergence of Grant, Part 4: Unconditional Surrender
The Emergence of Grant, Part 3: Fort Donelson
The Emergence of Grant, Part 2: Fort Henry
The Emergence of Grant, Part 1: Finding the Gateway
The Battle of the Ironclads, Part 5: Iron versus Iron
The Battle of the Ironclads, Part 4: Building the Monitor
The Battle of the Ironclads, Part 3: Inventing the Monitor
The Battle of the Ironclads, Part 2: Wood versus Iron
The Battle of the Ironclads, Part 1: Building the Merrimack
The Burnside Expedition
1861 in Review
Building a Blockade
The Anaconda Plan
Indians and the Confederacy, Part 3: The Trail of Blood on Ice
Indians and the Confederacy, Part 2: The Cherokee Nation
Indians and the Confederacy, Part 1: "Civilizing" The Five Nations
Union Diplomacy, Part 2: The Trent Affair
Union Diplomacy, Part 1: Fountains of Discontent
The Secessionist Witch Hunt
The Battle of Ball’s Bluff, Part 2: A Little Short of Boats
The Battle of Ball’s Bluff, Part 1: A Slight Demonstration
We Must Have Kentucky
Forming West Virginia
A Policy of Northern Oppression
Controlling Missouri, Part 6: Martial Law
Controlling Missouri, Part 5: Bloody Hill
Controlling Missouri, Part 4: The Battle of Wilson’s Creek
Controlling Missouri, Part 3: Punishing the Rebels
Controlling Missouri, Part 2: This Means War
Controlling Missouri, Part 1: Nathaniel Lyon in St. Louis
Live Question and Answer Session
The First Battle of Bull Run, Part 6: Aftermath
The First Battle of Bull Run, Part 5: Chinn Ridge
The First Battle of Bull Run, Part 4: Henry Hill
The First Battle of Bull Run, Part 3: Matthews Hill
The First Battle of Bull Run, Part 2: Blackburn’s Ford
The First Battle of Bull Run, Part 1: Hoke’s Run
War Comes to Virginia
Martial Law in Maryland
The Pratt Street Riot and Baltimore’s Secession
Secession: The Second Wave
The Bombardment of Fort Sumter
The Crisis at Fort Sumter
Forming the Confederate Government
The Corwin Amendment
South Carolina Stands Alone
Introduction to the Civil War
Secession: The First Wave
The Election of 1860
Harpers Ferry, Part 3: The Defeat
Harpers Ferry, Part 2: The Attack
Harpers Ferry, Part 1: The Plan
Filibuster in Nicaragua, Part 6: William Walker vs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
Filibuster in Nicaragua, Part 5: President William Walker
Filibuster in Nicaragua, Part 4: War in Nicaragua
Filibuster in Nicaragua, Part 3: The Republic of Nicaragua
Filibuster in Nicaragua, Part 2: Nicaragua Conquered
Filibuster in Nicaragua, Part 1: William Walker’s First Failure
Filibuster in Cuba, Part 2
Filibuster in Cuba, Part 1
Free State Kansas
Dred Scott
The Election of 1856: A Victorious Defeat
The Pottawatomie Massacre
Kansas Bleeds
America's First Civil War
The Jerry Rescue, Uncle Tom, and Anthony Burns
The Christiana Resistance: The First Shots of the Civil War
Nationalized Slavery: The Fugitive Slave Law
California Gold and Clay's Compromise
The March to America's Civil War
America's Prison Population Bomb
Crack Babies, the Contras, and the CIA
Just Say No: Reagan Militarizes the War on Drugs
Yellow Journalism and Cheech and Chong: Drug Policy in the 70s
Massacres and Marijuana: Vietnam and the Drug War
Then Came Nixon
A Bad Trip: The US Government and LSD
The Great Depression, Jazz, and Harry Anslinger: The War on Drugs Before Nixon
Culture, Coca-Cola, and the CIA: The History of Cocaine
The Milk of the Poppy
The Attack on Marijuana During the 1930s
The Roots of Drug Prohibition in America