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President Ulysses S Grant

President Ulysses S Grant

FromIn Our Time


President Ulysses S Grant

FromIn Our Time

ratings:
Length:
55 minutes
Released:
May 30, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of Grant's presidency on Americans in the years after the Civil War in which he, with Lincoln, had led the Union Army to victory. His predecessor, Andrew Johnson, was prepared to let the Southern States decide for themselves which rights to allow freed slaves; Grant supported equal rights, and he used troops and Enforcement Acts to defeat the Ku klux Klan which was violently suppressing African Americans. In later years Grant was remembered mainly for the corruption scandals under his terms of office, and for his failure to support or protect Native Americans, but in more recent decades his support for reconstruction has prompted a reassessement.

With

Erik Mathisen
Lecturer in US History at the University of Kent

Susan-Mary Grant
Professor of American History at Newcastle University

and

Robert Cook
Professor of American History at the University of Sussex

Producer: Simon Tillotson
Released:
May 30, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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