March 25, 2018 • 1h
Spotlighting radical abolitionist John Brown, as he raids Harper's Ferry, setting the scene for the Civil War.
April 1, 2018 • 1h
Abraham Lincoln becomes frustrated with his cautious commander, George McClellan, whose army gets routed at Manassas, Va.; Confede...Read more
April 8, 2018 • 1h
Robert E. Lee, who once turned down command of Northern forces, becomes the top Confederate general; Ulysses S. Grant scores Union...Read more
April 15, 2018 • 1h
Former slave Frederick Douglass pushes President Abraham Lincoln to free his people; Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation,...Read more
April 22, 2018 • 1h
A Confederate victory at Chancellorsville, Va. comes at a high price; a Southern bullet accidentally mortally wounds Stonewall Jackson.
April 29, 2018 • 1h
The North turns back the South's invasion; a heroic bayonet charge led by Maine's Joshua Chamberlain; the doomed Confederate charg...Read more
May 6, 2018 • 1h
Once drummed out of the army for drinking, Ulysses S. Grant earns his place as the North's best general; the Union's first black r...Read more
May 13, 2018 • 1h
A U.S. senator, war hero, and presidential aspirant who has much in common with Abraham Lincoln; Jefferson Davis answers the call ...Read more
May 20, 2018 • 1h
George McClellan poses a tough challenge to Abraham Lincoln's re-election; Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee clash on the battlefield;
May 27, 2018 • 1h
Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta and marches to the sea; Abraham Lincoln's re-election; Robert E. Lee's surrender...Read more
June 3, 2018 • 1h
John Wilkes Booth assassinates President Abraham Lincoln, potentially reversing the South's Civil War loss with a single bullet;
June 10, 2018 • 1h
The defeated South attempts to rewrite history by denying slavery was the root cause of the Civil War;