Senin, 07 Agustus 2017

Grant Takes on the Klan

Ulysses Grant hadn’t expected the presidency to be easy, but he didn’t think it would be this hard. He thought the hard work of forging peace with the South had been finished at Appomattox—that the generous terms he accorded General Robert E. Lee would start the nation’s healing process. But things hadn’t turned out that …

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