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President Ulysses S Grant
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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
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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