Ulysses S. Grant

New books reconsider how Ulysses S. Grant became a forceful defender of the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.

The Union general directly benefited from the brutal institution before and during the Civil War.

The foremost challenge of Grant’s day has not gone away. His response to it merits our attention.

Biden needs to stare down White supremacy, which requires strenuous enforcement of the laws.

It is fair to ask whether Grant’s prewar experiences define the entirety of his character, and who sets the bar for which public figures deserve commemoration.

Monuments ask us to look at the past, but how they do it exposes crucial aspects of the present.

The President and his Seneca friend Ely Parker wanted Indians to gain citizenship, but their efforts are mostly lost to history.

It was 1872 and the commander-in-chief kept riding his horse too fast through the streets of Washington.

David Blight reviews Ron Chernow's biography of Ulysses S. Grant.

Ron Chernow’s biography reminds our 21st-century selves of the distinction between character and personality.

His presidency was known for corruption, scandal, and booze. In a new book, Ron Chernow attempts to rehabilitate it.

The two men met at Appomattox. The loser would become a role model, the victor an embarrassment.

Ulysses S. Grant was overlooked by historians and underestimated by contemporaries. H.W. Brands reevaluates Grant’s presidency.

In 1872, Charles Sumner decries “a president who makes his great office a plaything and perquisite.”

Historians have revealed that the story Americans long learned about the end of the Civil War was a myth.

Two new books explore the messy complexities of immigration—from the era of Lincoln to Irish New York.

American democracy has been haunted by the spectre of a Caesar-type figure since the birth of the republic. Have such fears ever been justified?

Horace Greeley ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days later, he died of unknown causes at a private mental health facility.

In 1873, greed, speculation and overinvestment in railroads sparked a financial crisis that sank the U.S. into more than five years of misery.

The sacrifice of Captain Noah Grant, during the French and Indian War, may have influenced Ulysses S. Grant, as he decided to rejoin the U.S. Army in 1861.