“War is war, and not popularity-seeking.”
This is the story of the fall of Atlanta. William Tecumseh “Cump” Sherman is leading three armies in an attack against this vital city in the Peach State. His forces are formidable, but so are his opponents: Confederate master of defense, Joseph E. “Joe” Johnston; and the far more aggressive Confederate General John B. Hood. The loss of life will be staggering and include prominent figures on both sides.
There’s also rebelling brewing within the rebellion. Care to meet secessionists who’ve seceded from the secession? Welcome to Mississippi’s “Free State of Jones.”
158: Prohibition - So You Wanna Be a Rum Runner?
157: Temperance, Prohibition, and the Path to the 18th Amendment
156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge
155: The Life & Times of Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal
154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer
153: West Virginia’s Mine Wars: From Trouble in Matewan to the Battle of Blair Mountain
152: The Second Ku Klux Klan: Racism, Anti-Semitism, & Anti-Catholicism in the 1920s
151: The First Red Scare - Bombings, The Palmer Raids, Eugene Debs, and J. Edgar Hoover
150: The Great War’s Aftermath: Coming Home, The Spanish Flu, & The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
149: WWI Epilogue
148: Tales of Christmas from World War I (A Truce, Plum Pudding, and Love)
147: Peacemaking in Paris: The Treaty of Versailles
146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918
145: Halloween Special 2023: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
144: A Conversation with Ken Burns - Storytelling and the American Buffalo
143: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.2) – Breaking the Kriemhilde Line
142: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive (pt.1) – “The Lost Battalion”
141: Wartime Interlude
140: WWI Aviators: From the Lafayette Escadrille to the Red Baron and More
139: From Yeomen (F) to “Hello Girls:” American Women in World War I
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