“The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S ... and context for Grant’s own observations. Besides classical authors such as Xenophon, Plutarch, Livy and Julius Caesar, she quotes, with often ...

Fresh off his victory as commander of the Union armies during the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) became President of the United States in March 1869. While his time in office wasn’t ...

The legacy of Ulysses S. Grant isn’t getting any less complicated ... It’s an essential part of a healthy community and a healthy democracy.

American Ulysses ... this book deal with Grant’s life post-presidency. After his return from a two-year world tour during which he was hailed as a symbol of American democracy, the Wall ...

Ulysses S. Grant is finally getting his due ... A fire at the printing plant jeopardized it. Democracy program: A free program offered to fifth- and sixth-grade public school students by the ...

when President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the first of three Enforcement Acts, aimed at ensuring that formerly enslaved people could freely vote, participate in politics and serve in public ...

No great American has suffered more cruelly and undeservedly at the hands of historians than Ulysses S ... waging war advanced democracy—further damaged Grant’s image during the 1920s ...

But in both cases, much of Grant’s dim reputation was directly tied to ... nature of battlefield questions, especially for a democracy. Narrowly military considerations cannot be understood ...

It’s Thursday. Today we’ll find out about a recent promotion for Gen. Ulysses ... to vote. “Grant and many others thought that was the height of achievement for America as a democracy ...

Ulysses S. Grant was a genius at one thing—waging war. What makes him mythic is the way the fates conspired to snatch him out of obscurity and put him in the precise place and time where his ...