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Show Notes
After a life of military and government service, President Grant's last days were marked by financial distress and a bleak cancer diagnosis. His death evoked a monumental national grieving, a moment of unity that belied the failures of Reconstruction.
- Rediscovering Our Past: Champion Of The Weed
- Masking Death — U.S. Grant Cottage National Historic Landmark
- History in the Raw: The death and embalming of U.S. Grant 1885.
- A Necessary Undertaking — U.S. Grant Cottage National Historic Landmark
- Funeral of Ulysses S. Grant (U.S. National Park Service)
- A Short Overview of the Reconstruction Era and Ulysses S. Grant's Presidency (U.S. National Park Service)
- President Grant Takes on the Ku Klux Klan (U.S. National Park Service)
- 'The History of Grant Cottage' Video Tour: YouTube
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Artwork: Brittany Schall
Music: "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens, performed by Kevin MacLeod