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. Want to learn more about the real story? Here are some resources to get you started:

A Brave Black Regiment by Louis F. Emilio with an introduction by Gregory J. W. Urwin https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9780306806230

Black Flag Over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War, Edited by Gregory J. W. Urwin https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9780809326785

Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, edited by Russell Duncan https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9780820321745

A Voice of Thunder: A Black Soldier's Civil War, edited by Donald Yacovone https://www.amazon.com/Voice-Thunder-BLACK-SOLDIERS-Blacks/dp/0252067908

On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front, edited by Virginia Adams https://bookshop.org/a/9789/9781558492028

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