Based on a True Story

Glory with Gregory J. W. Urwin

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1989's Glory is currently the most requested movie to cover. Gregory J. W. Urwin is an author, military historian, and Professor at Temple University. He'll join us today to separate fact from fiction in Glory.


Learn more about the true story

  • A Brave Black Regiment by Louis F. Emilio with an introduction by Gregory J. W. Urwin: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169emilio
  • Black Flag Over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War, Edited by Gregory J. W. Urwin: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169book
  • Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, edited by Russell Duncan: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169shaw
  • A Voice of Thunder: A Black Soldier's Civil War, edited by Donald Yacovone: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169yacovone
  • On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front, edited by Virginia Adams: https://links.boatspodcast.com/169adams


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