what's on my reading table: October 2017

Ronald C. White.
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant.
New York: Random House, 2016.

Book Information: Publisher; Author's Website; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

Ronald C. White, ronaldcwhite.com.
Ronald C. White (b. 1939), Wikipedia.
Ronald C. White Jr., C-SPAN.
Ronald C. White, Jr. A. Lincoln: A Biography. New York: Random House, 2009.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video: Ronald C. White

Dr. Ronald White Jr., "American Ulysses," Greater St. Louis Humanities Festival, Missouri Humanities Council, April 2014.
- Missouri Humanities Council.
Ronald White, "American Ulysses," White House Historical Association, Decatur House, Washington, D.C., BookTV, C-SPAN, 05 October 2016.
- Event Information, White House Historical Association.
Ronald White and Brian Lamb, "Q&A with Ronald White," C-SPAN, 06 October 2016.
Ronald C. White and Daniel R. Weinberg, "A House Divided, Episode 2," Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Chicago, 15 October 2016.
- A House Divided: American Ulysses, Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 15 October 2016.
Ron White and David H. Petraeus, "Leadership, Life, and Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant," Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, 2016.
- Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California.

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Other Video:

Gabor Boritt, James M. McPherson, Geoffrey Perret, John Y. Simon, Brooks D. Simpson, Jean Edward Smith, "Biographies of Ulysses S. Grant," Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, BookTV, C-SPAN, 25 June 2001.
- Gabor Boritt (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
- James M. McPherson (b. 1939), Wikipedia.
- Geoffrey Perret, Wikipedia.
- John Y. Simon (1933–2008), Wikipedia.
- Brooks D. Simpson, Wikipedia.
- Jean Edward Smith (b. 1932), Wikipedia.
Books Discussed:
- The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University.
- Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University.
- Digital Collection, Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University.
- Geoffrey Perret. Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier & President. New York: Random House, 1997.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
- Brooks D. Simpson. Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000. Minneapolis: Zenith Press (Quarto Publishing Group), 2014.
  [Google Books, 2000; Google Books, 2014; Amazon.com, 2000; Amazon.com, 2014.]
- Jean Edward Smith. Grant. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Jean Edward Smith, "Grant," Southern Kentucky Festival of Books, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, BookTV, C-SPAN, 20 April 2002.

Jean Edward Smith, "No Businessman: How President Grant Saved the Economy but Lost His Own Shirt," Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, Florida, 10 February 2013.
- YouTube version, 10 February 2013.
- 2013 Whitehall Lecture Series - Presidents of the Gilded Age, Flagler Museum.
Jean Edward Smith Information:
- Jean Edward Smith (b. 1932), Wikipedia.
- Jean Edward Smith, C-SPAN.
Book Discussed:
- Jean Edward Smith. Grant. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, "Generalship of Robert E. Lee," United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 08 February 2012.
Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, "Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant," United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 10 February 2012.
- Wayne Hsieh, History Department, United States Naval Academy.
- Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, C-SPAN.
- Williamson Murray and Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh. A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Wikipedia Articles: Lee
- Robert E. Lee: Civil War (1807–1870).
- Seven Days Battles, 25 June - 01 July 1862.
- Second Battle of Bull Run, 28–30 August 1862.
- Battle of Fredericksburg, 11–15 December 1862.
- Battle of Chancellorsville, 30 April - 06 May 1863.
- Battle of Cold Harbor, 31 May - 12 June 1864.
Wikipedia Articles: Grant
- Ulysses S. Grant: Civil War (1822–1885).
- Ulysses S. Grant and the American Civil War.
Ethan S. Rafuse, ""My Earnest Endeavor": Grant Takes Command, 1864," Kansas City Public Library, 13 March 2014.
- Ethan Rafuse, academia.edu.
- Ethan S. Rafuse, C-SPAN.
- Faculty Directory, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
- U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Joan Waugh, "Ulysses S. Grant and the Crisis of Reconstruction," Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, C-SPAN, 19 March 2014.
- Event Information at the Miller Center with video and audio.
- Ulysses S. Grant, U.S. Presidents, Miller Center.
Joan Waugh, "US Grant and the Meaning of Appomattox," Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, American History TV, C-SPAN, 20 June 2015.
- 2015 Civil War Institute Video Gallery, Gettysburg College.
Joan Waugh Information:
- Joan Waugh, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Joan Waugh, Wikipedia.
- Joan Waugh, C-SPAN.
Book Discussed:
- Joan Waugh. U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Charles Calhoun, "Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant," U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 04 February 2015.
- Charles W. Calhoun, Department of History, East Carolina University.
- Charles W. Calhoun, C-SPAN.
- Charles W. Calhoun. The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2017.
  [Publisher; Amazon.com.]
- Charles W. Calhoun. From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail: The Transformation of Politics and Governance in the Gilded Age. New York: Hill and Wang (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan), 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
- Charles W. Calhoun, editor. The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America, Second Edition. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
H.W. Brands, "American Ulysses: The Journey of General Grant," Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 07 April 2011.
- Event Information, Hauenstein Center, 07 April 2011.
H.W. Brands, "The Man Who Saved the Union," Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, BookTV, C-SPAN, 28 October 2012.
- Texas Book Festival.
H.W. Brands and Joan Neuberger, "H. W. Brands on Ulysses S. Grant," Not Even Past, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, February 2013.
- Not Even Past.
- 15 Minute History.
- Joan Neuberger, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.
H.W. Brands, "Lincoln and Grant: Achieving the Peace," Institute for Honor 2015, Alumni College, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, 21 March 2015.
- Livestream version.
- Copy of Brands's talk at YouTube.
- LiveStream Talks, Alumni College, Washington and Lee University.
H.W. Brands, "Ulysses S. Grant: The Man Who Saved the Union," Fourth Annual Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, 29 January 2017.
- Rancho Mirage Writers Festival.
H.W. Brands Information:
- Henry W. Brands, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.
- h. w. brands, hwbrands.com.
- H. W. Brands (b. 1953), Wikipedia.
- H. "Bill" W. Brands, C-SPAN.
Book Discussed:
- H. W. Brands. The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace. New York: Doubleday (Penguin Random House), 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Brooks Simpson, "General Grant and the Continuing Civil War," Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, C-SPAN, 18 June 2016.
- 2016 Civil War Institute Video Gallery, Gettysburg College.
- Brooks Simpson, Arizona State University.
- Brooks D. Simpson, Wikipedia.
- Brooks D. Simpson, C-SPAN.
- Brooks D. Simpson. Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
- Brooks D. Simpson. The Reconstruction Presidents. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
- Brooks D. Simpson. Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000. Minneapolis: Zenith Press (Quarto Publishing Group), 2014.
  [Google Books, 2000; Google Books, 2014; Amazon.com, 2000; Amazon.com, 2014.]
Charles Calhoun, John Marszalek, Bjorn Skaptason, "A House Divided, Season 2, Episode 11," Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Chicago, 14 October 2017.
- A House Divided: John Marszalek Grant’s Memoirs & Charles Calhoun The Presidency of U.S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln Book Shop.
- Charles W. Calhoun, Department of History, East Carolina University.
- John F. Marszalek, Department of History, Mississippi State University.
- John F. Marszalek (b. 1939), Wikipedia.
Books Discussed:
- Charles W. Calhoun. The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2017.
  [Publisher; Amazon.com.]
- The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition. Edited by John Marszalek. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017.
  [Publisher; Amazon.com.]

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Grant's Memoirs, Papers, Presidential Library:

Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885.
[Wikipedia; Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
Ulysses S. Grant. Memoirs and Selected Letters. Edited by William S. McFeely and Mary McFeeley. New York: Library of America, 1990.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition. Edited by John Marszalek. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2017.
[Publisher; Amazon.com.]
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), "First Inaugural Address," 04 March 1869.
[Ulysses S. Grant: "Inaugural Address," March 4, 1869. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25820.]
The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University.
Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University.
Digital Collection, Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University.

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Other Books and Articles:

Adam Badeau (1831–1895). Military History of Ulysses S. Grant: from April, 1861, to April, 1865. Three Volumes. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1868.
[Archive.org, 1881, Toronto set: vol 1 of 3; vol 2 of 3; vol 3 of 3.]
Albert D. Richardson (1833-1869). A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1868.
[Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, New York Public Library; Archive.org, Library of Congress.]
John Russell Young (1841-1899). Around the World with General Grant: A Narrative of the Visit of General U.S. Grant, Ex-President of the United States, to Various Countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879. Two Volumes. New York: The American News Company, 1879.
[Archive.org, vol 1 of 2, California; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2, California; Archive.org, vol 1 of 2, Getty; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2, Getty.]
Adam Badeau (1831–1895). Grant in Peace. From Appomattox to Mount McGregor. A Personal Memoir. Hartford: S.S. Scranton & Co., 1887.
[Archive.org, California; Archive.org, New York Public Library; Archive.org, Library of Congress.]
Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937) and Clarence Clough Buel (1850–1933), editors. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Four Volumes. New York: The Century Co., 1887.
[Wikipedia; Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection: vol 1 of 4; vol 2 of 4; vol 3 of 4; vol 4 of 4.]
John G. Nicolay (1832–1901) and John Hay (1838–1905). Abraham Lincoln: A History. In The Century Magazine. Condensed serial version of the book published in ten volumes in 1890, excerpted from The Century illustrated monthly magazine, volumes 33-39, new ser., v. 11-17, Nov. 1886 - Feb. 1890.
[Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection.]
John G. Nicolay (1832–1901) and John Hay (1838–1905). Abraham Lincoln: A History. Ten Volumes. New York: The Century Co., 1890.
[Wikipedia;
Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Arthur Dixon set: vol 1 of 10; vol 2 of 10; vol 3 of 10; vol 4 of 10; vol 5 of 10; vol 6 of 10; vol 7 of 10; vol 8 of 10; vol 9 of 10; vol 10 of 10.]
Horace Porter (1837–1921). Campaigning with Grant. New York: The Century Co., 1897.
[Archive.org, 1907.]
Hamlin Garland (1860–1940). Ulysses S. Grant: His Life and Character. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1898. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920.
[Archive.org, 1898, California; Archive.org, 1920, Toronto.]
J. F. C. Fuller. The Generalship Of Ulysses S. Grant. London: John Murray, 1929. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1929. New York: Da Capo Press, 1991.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
J. F. C. Fuller. Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
C. Vann Woodward, "The Lowest Ebb," American Heritage, Volume 8, Issue 3, April 1957.
William S. McFeely. Grant: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1981.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com, 1981; Amazon.com, paperback.]
Peter Cozzens, "Ulysses S. Grant Launched an Illegal War Against the Plains Indians, Then Lied About It," Smithsonian Magazine, November 2016.
- Peter Cozzens. The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House), 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Ron Chernow. Grant. New York: Penguin Press, 2017.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Bibliography of Ulysses S. Grant, Wikipedia.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885).
Ulysses S. Grant: Commanding General.
Ulysses S. Grant and the American Civil War.
United States presidential election, 1868, Grant versus Seymour.
Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, March 1869 - March 1877.
Ulysses S. Grant presidential administration scandals.
Ulysses S. Grant presidential administration reforms.
Black Friday (1869) (also called the Gold Ring), a gold market manipulation and panic, 24 September 1869.
Crédit Mobilier of America scandal, 1872.
United States presidential election, 1872, Grant versus Greeley.
Panic of 1873.
Long Depression, 1873-1879 or 1873-1896, depending on how you measure it.
United States elections, 1874.
Whiskey Ring, a scandal exposed in 1875.
Investigated by Secretary of the Treasury Benjamin Bristow (1832–1896).
President Grant's private secretary Orville E. Babcock (1835–1884) implicated.
Trader post scandal, Congressional investigation began February 1876.
Secretary of War William W. Belknap (1829–1890) implicated.
Hamilton Fish (1808–1893), U.S. Secretary of State, March 1869 – March 1877.
Elihu B. Washburne (1816–1887).
John Aaron Rawlins (1831–1869).
Post-presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.

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C. Vann Woodward.
The Future of the Past.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

James C. Cobb, "C. Vann Woodward as a Southern Renaissance Man," Rice University, Houston, Texas, BookTV, C-SPAN, 23 February 2001.
- James C. Cobb, Department of History, University of Georgia.
- Cobbloviate, cobbloviate.com.
Book Discussed:
- C. Vann Woodward. Origins of the New South, 1877–1913, Revised Edition. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971. (First published in 1951.)
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
C. Vann Woodward, The New York Review of Books.
C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999), Wikipedia.
Richard Severodec, "C. Vann Woodward, Historian Who Wrote Extensively About the South, Dies at 91," The New York Times, 19 December 1999.
David Brion Davis, "C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999)," The New York Review of Books, 10 February 2000.
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, "In Memoriam: C. Vann Woodward (1908-99)," Perspectives on History, March 2000.
Sheldon Hackney, "C. Vann Woodward," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 145, Number 2, June 2001.
Ann T. Keene, "C. Vann Woodward," American National Biography Online.
J. Morgan Kousser and James M. McPherson, editors. Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
[Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Paul M. Gaston, "C. Vann Woodward, Southern Historian," Virginia Quarterly Review, Volume 59, Number 2, Spring 1983.
This essay is a review of Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Vann Woodward.
John Herbert Roper. C. Vann Woodward, Southerner. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
John Herbert Roper, editor. C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1997.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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what's on my reading table

Monday, October 16, 2017

White, American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant (2016)

Sunday, October 08, 2017

Morris, Fraud of the Century: ... the Stolen Election of 1876 (2003)

Thursday, October 05, 2017

Woodward, The Future of the Past (1989)