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What Grant’s battlefield promotion 137 years after his death says about race in America today
David M. Shribman | Milwaukee Journal SentinelLost in the pre-holiday rush … was an important marker in the culture wars on religion and race in America. Ulysses Grant is getting a battlefield promotion.The 18th president has been dead for 137 years, his presidency ended in 1877, and his Civil War heroics ended more than a century and a half ago. Read more » »















