Join Dr. Jeff Sikkenga, Professor of Political Science at Ashland University and Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center on 13 May 2020 at 1pm ET for this free webinar, focusing on Ulysses S. Grant and Robert Gould Shaw. He will be joined by Dr. Dan Monroe of Millikin University.

Suggested Readings:

• Proclamation on Enforcement of the 14th Amendment, U.S. Grant, 3 May 1871
• Letter to D.H. Chamberlain, U.S. Grant, 26 July 1876
• Recollections of the War, U.S. Grant, 1885
• A Speech at the Unveiling of the Robert Gould Shaw Monument, Booker T. Washington, 31 May 1897

Supplemental Readings - Letters from and to Grant During the War:

• Grant to Buckner, 16 FEB 1862
• Grant to Banks, 15March 1864
• Grant to Butler, Meade, and Sherman, 2 April 1864
• Lincoln to Grant, 30 April 1864
• Lincoln to Grant, 17 August 1864

 

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