A mix-up on his first day at West Point in 1839 bestowed the name Ulysses S. Grant on the young cadet born Hiram Ulysses Grant. The “U.S.” would prove fitting. During the Civil War, troops dubbed him ...
For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But in the United States Army, his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart. Born ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Ulysses S. Grant led two lives: His first life, a professional soldier, dedicated to carrying out the dictates of the nation’s political leaders, and his second, a president by popular demand during ...
The folks at the Oregon Civil War Sesquicentennial are holding their February Civil War Book Club discussion on the biography of Ulysses S. Grant by H.W.Brands published by Doubleday in Dec 2012. They ...
Why Grant?” William S. McFeely asked rhetorically in the introduction to his 1981 biography of the Union Army general-in-chief and eighteenth President of the United States. Somewhere around 120 Grant ...
TO RESCUE THE REPUBLIC: Ulysses S. Grant, The Fragile Union and the Crisis of 1876. By Brett Bair. Custom House. 400 pages. $28.99. As the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot approaches, ...
William S. McFeely, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose biographies of Ulysses S. Grant and Frederick Douglass were praised as literary landmarks that explored the psychological complexities of ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Southern Illinois University Edwardsville history professor Erik Alexander talked about what America was like in 1869 and provided an overview of the ...
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