A novelist imagines how Julia Grant’s real-life enslaved maid Jule might have felt about slavery, freedom, the Civil War, and the romance of Julia and Ulysses S. Grant.
‘The Struggles of Petroleum V. Nasby’ by David Ross Locke
The most popular political satirist of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the despicable racist and southern sympathizer Nasby was the Stephen Colbert of his day.
‘Let Us Have Peace’ by Brooks Simpson
Far from being a successful general who became a naive politician, Grant understood politics and used it during the war and afterwards with skill.
‘The Won Cause’ by Barbara Gannon
As white Americans fell for southern Lost Cause propaganda after the Civil War, the largest group for Union veterans kept alive the memory of the moral cause of the war, while offering Black veterans respect and fellowship.