at that time his name was hiram ulysses grant. he later became known course as ulysses us grant the two of them partici painted in a debate society. there are records of their debates and the subject m■atteri talk about in the book some of it's very ironic. but then grant's father decided he wasn't paying enough attention. his studies for what he was paying into with and for him. so he sent him off to west point where tuition was free and the two of them in 1838 sort of separated separated. marquand went on to go augusta college in kentucky and to study the law and became a steamboat clerk and then in 1848, he and, his father went to washington, d.c., where they each became clerks in different offices and mark then became a clerk in the pension, which dealt with the pensions for revolutionary soldiers still alive at that time. and soldiers the war of 1812. he a busy, busy young man but. 1850 he married the daughter of a wealthy developer in washington, d.c. his name sampson simsndartha sims is n see.tiful young woman, as you we tt

we're talking now about ulysses grant grant figures very prominently in the book, as you can imagine. it's in the title grant evolved greatly from essentially not very political man before the civil war who briefly owned one slave of a man whom. he gave his freedom. he could have sold him. he needed the money. he didn't. he gave him his freedom to a man who is deeply impressed one by the suffering of of enslaved people during the war and also by the bravery of black troops during, the war he welcomes black refugees into his armies, camps and supports the of black troops. unlike many his fellow union officers whose racism overcame their need for troops. but at any rate, after the war grant evolves pretty steadily into a radical, into an ally of the radicals in congress. and like i said, he is stevens, whom i write about and and and others and. what is grand? do. he has a two pronged campaign against the klan. one is military. he dispatches more troops into the epicenters of klan activity, specifically up county of country, south where he suspends habeas is given that power by the ku kl

ulysses grant is a player notably in the civil war, but also a direct in the tenure of office act fight between president andrew johnson and congress after the civil war. and taft was theodore roosevelt's secretary of war and right hand man and. it's important to remember that taft earlier on in his career is civilian governor of the philippines. there's a tendency to think of taft primarily as judge, but his work in the philippines suggests a deep experience in executive authority that then translates into the presidency and to put this all together, i think the new understanding of what the state was doing gives us a host of issue areas to look for presidential power and looking for presidential power throughout the 1800s reveals extensive exercises of presidential power by numerous presidents. the this fascinating is also lindsay as historians you know, we love ranking presidents, right with every year there's a you know, a new ranking and things don't change all that much. but the three presidents that stephen is talking about so usually ranked very high on that list of presidents.

ulysses grant is a player notably in the civil war, but also a direct in the tenure of office act fight between president andrew johnson and congress after the civil war. and taft was theodore roosevelt's secretary of war and right hand man and. it's important to remember that taft earlier on in his career is civilian governor of the philippines. there's a tendency to think of taft primarily as judge, but his work in the philippines suggests a deep experience in executive authority that then translates into the presidency and to put this all together, i think the new understanding of what the state was doing gives us a host of issue areas to look for presidential power and looking for presidential power throughout the 1800s reveals extensive exercises of presidential power by numerous presidents. the this fascinating is also lindsay as historians you know, we love ranking presidents, right with every year there's a you know, a new ranking and things don't change all that much. but the three presidents that stephen is talking about so usually ranked very high on that list of presidents.

each of my case studies john quincy adams, ulysses grant and william taft use tools in all five of theseories to try to get done what they want to get a large and influential federal state. and these three presidents make something this because first of all, the scope of their lives extends throughout the first part of american history. john quincy adams as a child witnesses, the american revolution. he writes of w■itnessinth bunke, william taft serves as chief justice into the 1920s. ulysses middle of those two john quincy adams son, one of john quincy adams sons, and william howard taft, father, are in grant's administration. and so with three presidents, we get a that runs from the earliest days of the revolution right through the 1920s more over each of these presidents was witness to exercises of presidential authority by. so adams is in congress for the louisiana purchase and jefferson's embargo. adams, of course, writes nroe doctrine for james monroe. ulysses grant is a player notably in the civil war, but also a direct act fight between president andrew johnson and congress after

understand why why that wrong and why we really should be looking at john quincy adams ulysses grantd william. all right, i'll try. thanks for the question. i don't thinknded. i know those the regular touchstones, but put more positively. my main argument in the book is th a active, independent and influential presidency has been a core element of american governance since the george washington administration and throughout 19th century. and what i wanted to do with this book was to link presidency studies with the now robust on american state development and american political development. we now know thanks to a lot of doing much more in the 19th century than we used to think. there have been tremendous studies land pension policy, disaster relief, infrastructure development, indian affair dipls enforcement enforcement, all of were overly or many of them were overlooked for many years, as we used to cover 19th century history studies have focused on policy areas, land policy and indian affairs and so on. what i wanted to do with this book was see how our new understand of the 19th

i was surprised in a way to find the faith story of ulysses grant. i learned that the methodist church far the national cathedral was ever in vision built. the first national church in washington d.c. methodism was the protestant denomination, and they decided to dedicate that church four days before grant was, and it was inaugurate as president because he was the son of methodism and they wanted combine the dedication of the metropolitan memorial church and the inauguration of ulysses grant. well so it is with chamberlain he grows up in the small town of brewer, maine. thousand people, his parents are deeply religious. the church, the successor the puritans who came first to new england is dominant religion. and this the faith that he embraces. and yet what i then found remarkable was that even though he held this traditional faith, he and his adult life was more and more and more open other traditions of, faith that came into maine, unitary, an ism that came late, first from boston and then into maine. so who is this person? joshua lawrence chamber

today about a black running in the united states, but there this discussion and 70 so yes dunn ulysses grant support it dunn and he supported the dunn faction of the republican party the radical faction of the republican party in louisiana. one quick thing, warmth. governor and grant had a history because warmth had been in the military during the vicksburg crisis. he he he was kind of absent without leave. grant tried to have him cashiered which would have like ruined any postwar career dunn warmth goes to the white house and talks to lincoln. when lincoln used to have those audiences and gets reinstated. so there is blood between warmth and grant and in warmth memoirs he hates grant you can you can tell. and so it just fits perfectly. yes. love reconstruction which. i'm not. we're here for you. that's great. i was going to say, since we're this is being recorded for posterity we probably have time for one more question that i don't want to speak with for all of our guys, but all happy to stick around and talk with more now when we hard stop at because i was told to do jake what happened to

ck he wrote when he was a president was to pay for his willard hotel bill ulysses grant also at the willard. however, when he appeared to check in with his son, he didn't have on his uniform. he looked disheveled and unfortunately one recognized him. so his room wasn't very nice. we're lucky, though, he doesn't hold a grudge because he came back to the willard multiple times. he liked to smoke a cigar, sit by the fhe favors, and president grant called themas made a word that's common in our picture. we learned today. juliet ward howe was also a guest at willard. she was the sister, the famous lobbyist, sam ward, and he had recommended she and her husband at the willard. the willard was one of the few hotels that offered stationery to his guest. it was on one of these pieces of stationery. early one morning, she penned the to the battle hymn of the republic. it was originally a poem, but when added to the music, it became the patriotic and national caay a patriotic song throughout our land we also had colonel logan stay with us and had decided that a day should be dedicate it in the memory o

and he he actually predicted his at it the night before ulysses grant was supposed to have been his guestght who h bail at the last and on president lincoln's desk in the oval office night, he was alegislation to create tt service, albeit not presidential protection, primarily for counterfeiting purposes, but i thought that was kind of ironic. he was also a world class wrestler in than 300 matches, losing only one of them. someone told me that he is enshrined in the like the world wrestling hall fame, which i thought was interesting interesting. coincidentally, i want to show you something over here. of all 42 sculptures, the only one to take a spill off of a flatbed. abe. that hole in the back of his was not in, although the one on the top when he fell off of the flatbed, which i thought was pretty ironic. so that's a little something about these three. the remaining 39 statues are kind of clustered and this patch summertime, you can't see the hole side of this entire cluster because it's so overgrown and basically becomes a forest. at first i had a problem with that because it was obscu

gray ulysses grant. that's right. grant was a noted water colorist. training, right? i mean, you all know the story. i'm sure when grant shows up at west point and they have his name down wrong, the paperwork, you lose the sense grant's5 his name is hiram ulysses grant, and he gets to west point and they're like, oh, ulysses s grant becseand he was like five. he weighed 100 pounds. he's this scrawny little. he was like, yep, that's right. that's my name. no further questions. and thank goodness he did because otherwise his initials would have been hug and don't think a guy with the initials hug really could have won the civil but u.s. grant unconditional surrender grant that's a guy who can take you to victory. but he's noted at west point as people and also as a horseman, he held jumping records, horsemanship records, west point that stood for decades after left the military academy. he topped out at five foot eight, about 180. so he had a bit of a growth, but he was an average size century american. but he, like army explorers, he sent he's he is in

his name is hiram ulysses grant, and he gets to west point and they're like, oh, ulysses s grant nameall. he weighed 100 pounds. he's this scrawny little. he was like, yep, that's right. no further questions. and thank goodness he did because otherwise his initials would have been hug and don't think a guy with the initial hug really could have won the civil but u.s. grant unconditional surrender grant that's a guy who can take you to victory. but he's noted at west point as a water colorist, which surprises people and also as a horseman, he held jumping records, horsemanship records, west point that stood for cades after left the military academy. he topped out at five foot eight, about 180. so he had a bit of a growth, but he was an average size century american. but he, like army explorers, he sent he's he is in mexico with winfield and zachary tlor. but after the us-mexico war, he goes to the pacific northwest, to oregon and washing tin and makes notes and observations like all army officers do. and the the primary source that you all are going to reading for this class is an army

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