Ulysses S. Grant

CRS Scholar: 22nd Amendment's Roots in Partisanship, Civil Rights Opposition

Stephen W. Stathis of the Congressional Research Service traces the partisan politics behind presidential term limits, from Ulysses Grant to the passage of the 22nd Amendment as Harry Truman sought to continue the New Deal program. 

Don't Defend Democracy With Half-Truths About the Past

by Brook Thomas

Although the Capitol riots raised deep concern about the rule of law, there is a deeper challenge ahead of the nation: to understand and change the undemocratic aspects of our foundational law and refuse half-measures in the name of unity.

The Trump Trial Wouldn’t Have Been Possible Without This Impeachment

by Richard White

The impeachment of Secretary of War William Belknap on 1876 seemed to have settled the question of whether an official's impeachment can be tried after they leave office in the affirmative. Today's Republican Party is ignoring the message. 

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Big Middle Finger to the Confederacy

The History Channel miniseries “Grant,” executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, celebrates Ulysses S. Grant’s Civil War heroism and exposes the racism of the Confederacy.

Grant’s First Tomb

by Jamelle Bouie

Ulysses S. Grant, inaugurated as president 150 years ago today, missed a chance to reconstruct the South economically as well as politically.

Joan Waugh on Grant's and Lee's 'gentlemen's agreement' ending the Civil War

If it weren't for Grant, Lee and Appomattox, the Civil War's aftermath could have been far worse

The Nonsense Myth About Grant and Lee

by William C. Davis

Confederate Lee is remembered as the last of the old America and Yankee Grant as the first of the new one. But in fact they were little different from each other.

Disputed sale of Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's coat and cup

A military antiques shop in Gettysburg claims they are owed a share of a $1.6 million to $1.85 million sale of a coat and cup once owned by Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

Ulysses S. Grant gets his due: Interview with H.W. Brands

Grant's reputation continues to rise.

A New Way to Look at America's Wars

by Thomas Fleming

Via Tumblr.From my early days as an historian, I have always looked for insights that explain the past on a deeper level than a series of merely exciting or disturbing events. I still vividly remember my first experience. I was working on a book about the year 1776 and had file drawers crammed with research. But I felt the need for something fundamental, a pattern of thought that drew the narrative together in a new, more meaningful way.Suddenly the words swarmed into my mind: 1776: Year of Illusions. It was my first encounter with what I now call a disease in the public mind.

Welcome Home, General Grant

by Charles Bracelen Flood

Ulysses S. Grant as president. Credit: Wiki Commons.IThis year of 2011, marking the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, gives us an opportunity to see the difference between history as fact and history as perception.No better example of this exists than the life of Ulysses S. Grant.  He died in 1885; to the end of the nineteenth century, there was one Ulysses S. Grant, based on fact and seen in that light.  During almost all of the twentieth century, he was the subject of various forms of "revisionism."  In recent years he is being restored to his rightful place in our history.

Was Grant a Drunk?

by Edward G. Longacre

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