ulysses grant

BONUS episode featuring my summer of presidential travels as I fit in as many birthplaces, gravesites, homes, and other sites into one history professor's summer break.  The second of three trips, join me as I visit New York State and City, Washington, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, St. Louis, and Arizona!

Check out "How I Spent My Summer of Presidential Travels, 2023, Part 1"!
Check out "How I Spent My Summer of Presidential Travels, 2023, Part 2"!

Links to Previous Episodes Mentioned:
Birthplaces
"James Garfield and Moreland Hills"
"William McKinley and Niles"
"Theodore Roosevelt and Manhattan"
"Franklin Roosevelt and Hyde Park"
"Richard Nixon and Yorba Linda"

Homes
"Thomas Jefferson and Monticello"
"James Monroe and Highland"
"Abraham Lincoln and Springfield"
"Ulysses Grant and Galena"
"James Garfield and Lawnfield"
"Chester Alan Arthur and Manhattan"
"Theodore Roosevelt and Sagamore Hill"
"Franklin Roosevelt and Warm Springs"
"Barack Obama and Oahu (and Kalorama)"

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Unconditionally Surrender to Ulysses Grant's Episode on his homes in St. Louis, Mount McGregor, and of course, Galena, Illinois. Learn about the 18th President's transition from military life to politics, his tumultuous presidency, his wife, Julia, and family, as well as his homes!

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Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2022/06/28/season-2-episode-18-ulysses-grant-and-galena/

Season 1's Ulysses Grant Episode: "Ulysses Grant and Point Pleasant" 

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Ulysses S. Grant graduated from West Point and fought bravely in the Mexican-American War, but in 1854 he resigned from the U.S. Army in disgrace and went on to fail in a series of occupations. The outbreak of the Civil War changed his life forever. His quiet modesty and fearless aggression set him apart from other Union commanders, fueling a meteoric rise through the ranks and eventually making him the only general Lincoln trusted to beat the Confederacy. When the nation elected him president in the midst of Reconstruction, Grant learned that winning the war was much simpler than securing the peace. 

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U.S. Grant, our first Buckeye president, born along the Ohio River in Point Pleasant! A man who was mediocre at almost everything UNTIL the Civil War, learn about his childhood and education, as well as what he was doing when the War broke out! We will also explore the life of his birth cabin and the small town of Point Pleasant!

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Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2021/05/18/episode-18-ulysses-grant-and-point-pleasant/

Season 2's Ulysses Grant Episode: "Ulysses Grant and Galena"

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The riots cascading across the world have included many strange scenes, but few stranger than this: a Washington, D. C. plaque honoring Fredrick Douglass spray-painted with an expletive. The plaque celebrates Douglass’s heroic efforts to lead a bank for freed slaves.

Like statues of abolitionists John Greenleaf Whittier, Ulysses Grant, and Matthias Baldwin, “anti-racist” rioters treated Douglass’s memorial as if he was complicit in racism simply for living in the past. This erasing of history may have played well in the moment, when the police staggered, and the windows cracked, but it will not play well in the long term. History can be attacked, but it cannot be deleted.

Long ago, Douglass said this: “The soul that is within me no man can degrade.” What is true of his soul is true of his legacy. Anarchist rioters may have tried to degrade Douglass’s contributions, but no one can deface his memory.

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The riots cascading across the world have included many strange scenes, but few stranger than this: a Washington, D. C. plaque honoring Fredrick Douglass spray-painted with an expletive. The plaque celebrates Douglass’s heroic efforts to lead a bank for freed slaves.

Like statues of abolitionists John Greenleaf Whittier, Ulysses Grant, and Matthias Baldwin, “anti-racist” rioters treated Douglass’s memorial as if he was complicit in racism simply for living in the past. This erasing of history may have played well in the moment, when the police staggered, and the windows cracked, but it will not play well in the long term. History can be attacked, but it cannot be deleted.

Long ago, Douglass said this: “The soul that is within me no man can degrade.” What is true of his soul is true of his legacy. Anarchist rioters may have tried to degrade Douglass’s contributions, but no one can deface his memory.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.