The American Civil War
(Audiobook)

part 1: lecture 1. Prelude to war ; lecture 2. The election of 1860 ; lecture 3. The lower South secedes ; lecture 4. The crisis at Fort Sumter ; lecture 5. The opposing sides : I ; lecture 6. The opposing sides : II ; lecture 7. The common soldier ; lecture 8. First Manassas or Bull Run ; lecture 9. Contending for the border states ; lecture 10. Early Union triumphs in the west ; lecture 11. Shiloh and Corinth ; lecture 12. The peninsula campaign

part 2: lecture 13. The Seven Days' battles ; lecture 14. The Kentucky campaign of 1862 ; lecture 15. Antietam ; lecture 16. The background to emancipation ; lecture 17. Emancipation completed ; lecture 18. Filling the ranks ; lecture 19. Sinews of war-finance and supply ; lecture 20. The War in the west, winter 1862-63 ; lecture 21. The war in Virginia, winter and spring 1862-63 ; lecture 22. Gettysburg ; lecture 23. Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Tullahoma ; lecture 24. A season of uncertainty, summer and fall 1863

part 3: lecture 25. Grant at Chattanooga ; lecture 26. The diplomatic front ; lecture 27. African-Americans in wartime, I ; lecture 28. African-Americans in wartime, II ; lecture 29. Wartime reconstruction ; lecture 30. The naval war ; lecture 31. The river war & Confederate commerce raiders ; lecture 32. Women at war, I ; lecture 33. Women at war, II ; lecture 34. Stalemate in 1864 ; lecture 35. Sherman versus Johnston in Georgia ; lecture 36. The wilderness to Spotsylvania ; part 4: lecture 37. Cold Harbor to Petersburg ; lecture 38. The Confederate home front, I ; lecture 39. The Confederate home front, II ; lecture 40. The Northern home front, I ; lecture 41. The Northern home front, II ; lecture 42. Prisoners of war ; lecture 43. Mobile Bay and Atlanta ; lecture 44. Petersburg, the Crater, and the Valley ; lecture 45. The final campaigns ; lecture 46. Petersburg to Appomattox ; lecture 47. Closing scenes and reckonings ; lecture 48. Remembering the war.