History
Comes Alive Series
Professor Carl
R. Osthaus will present the
lecture "Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? Reflections
on the Good General - Bad President Enigma" at 7
p.m. on Tuesday, March 22 2005 in the Oakland
Center Oakland Room.
An honored recipient of Oakland University's Teaching Excellence
Award and chair of the History Department, Professor Osthaus
has written books on Southern Reconstruction and 19th-century
Southern newspaper editors.
Books and articles by Dr. Osthaus at the Kresge Library:
- (1976) Freedmen,
philanthropy, and fraud : a history of the Freedman's
Savings Bank (University of Illinois Press, 1976)
- (1994) Partisans
of the Southern press : editorial spokesmen of the nineteenth
century University Press of Kentucky)
- (2004). The
work ethic of the plain folk: labor and religion in the
Old South. Journal of Southern
History 70(4) p745-782.
Online Articles about Grant (access provided by Kresge
Library)*:
- Kahn, D (1982). The
Grant Monument. Journal of the Society of Architectural
Historians 41(3) p. 212-231.
- Simpson, B (1998). Grant's
Tour of the South Revisited.
Journal of Southern History 54(3) p. 425-448.
Books and Articles about Grant at the Kresge Library:
- Korda, M (2004). Ulysses
S. Grant : the unlikely hero.
- Perret, G (1997). Ulysses
S. Grant : soldier & president.
- Rives, Timothy (2000). Grant, Babcock, and the Whiskey
Ring. Prologue 32(3)
p. 142-153.
- Simpson, B (2000). Ulysses
S. Grant : triumph over adversity, 1822-1865.
- Smith, J (2001). Grant.
*Please note, access to some materials
is restricted to use by Oakland Students, Faculty,
and
Staff (or from a computer located on the Oakland network). Find
out why...