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Ulysses S. Grant

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• Originally published 12/03/2013

  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.

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• Originally published 11/18/2013

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

  Grant's reputation continues to rise.

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• Originally published 06/09/2013

  A New Way to Look at America's Wars

  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.

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• Originally published 10/12/2011

  Welcome Home, General Grant

  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.

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• Originally published 09/09/2007

  Was Grant a Drunk?

  Credit: Wiki Commons/HNN staff.