This was a hard one.  I tried to acknowledge the impact this man had on history, but I didn’t want to seem to glorify him.  I wouldn’t be worried about seeming to glorify him if there weren’t people out there actually glorifying him.  Anyway, I talk about this all I want to in the episode.

Sources

Jefferson Davis Gets his citizenship back

Coleridge’s poetry and prose Norton critical edition

In our time Herodotus

Memoirs of U S Grant

Kentucky Encyclopedia

New History of Kentucky

J J McCoulough and Mr Beat interview each other.

Robert Penn Warren Birthplace and Museum

Yale Courses African American history since 1865

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