18.A.) The moments that shaped Ulysses S. Grant, an interview with Nick Sacco
Ulysses S. Grant led an Odyssey of a life. From the battlefields of the Mexican-American War, to the get-rich-quick frontier of the California Gold Rush, to years of poverty in St. Louis, Grant was sh...
4 Jul 202149min
18.) Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877
They say history is written by the victor. Ulysses S Grant may beg to differ. For nearly 100 years, Grant was derided as an inept and corrupt drunk who won the Civil War by recklessly sacrificing the ...
1 Jul 202156min
17.A.) The impeachment of Andrew Johnson, an interview with David O. Stewart
Andrew Johnson is the only president to face a Senate impeachment in our first 200 years. What did he do to get impeached? Who were the men out to get him? And how did he beat his conviction and remov...
7 Jun 202134min
17.) Andrew Johnson 1865-1869
In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, former vice president Andrew Johnson was faced with a tremendous challenge: How do you mend relations between the north and south, two regions that had ...
1 Jun 202150min
B.) Jefferson Davis, The Confederate President
Jefferson Davis was never president of all the United States, but he was president of half of them. Follow Davis as parlays his status as a Mexican-American war hero into a political career as a fier...
15 Mai 202157min
16.E.) Lincoln, the Union Army, and the election of 1864; an interview with Jon White
Six of the seven presidents who followed Lincoln served in the Union Army during the Civil War. In our final look at Honest Abe, join me as I interview Jon White, an associate professor of American St...
6 Mai 202142min
16.D.) Lincoln the lawyer; an interview with Brian Dirck
Abraham Lincoln is the most experienced trial lawyer we've ever elected president, with more than two decades of experience litigating in the courtroom. Join me as I talk to Brian Dirck, a professor o...
5 Mai 202130min
16.C.) Lincoln and the partisan press; an interview with Harold Holzer
Think the press is biased today? Take a look at it in the 19th century, when papers were so partisan they were practically departments of their parties. Join me as I interview Harold Holzer, director ...
4 Mai 202143min
