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Presidential · May 23, 2016 · 35m

Ulysses S. Grant

Lillian Cunningham

The Civil War hero and underrated president. Cunningham examines Grant's extraordinary military leadership, his defense of Reconstruction and Black civil rights, and how his reputation was unfairly destroyed by a narrative of corruption.

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Highlights

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Grant's reputation was deliberately destroyed by Lost Cause mythology
For a century, Grant was remembered as a drunk and a corrupt president. Recent scholarship reveals this was partly a deliberate campaign by former Confederates to discredit the man who defeated them.
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Grant's defense of Reconstruction was the most courageous presidential stance between Lincoln and the civil rights era
Grant deployed federal troops to protect Black voters, prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan, and pushed through the 15th Amendment. His Reconstruction policies were the last serious federal defense of Black rights until the 1960s.
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