We need to teach young people about our history and institutions. Put me down as in favor. But we also need to teach about character.
Ulysses S. Grant
Scholars: Trump is the worst president in American history.
Here is the top 20 from the “2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey.” Obama and Ulysses S. Grant are on the upswing. Andrew Jackson and Calvin Coolidge out of the top 20. The bottom three: Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, and […]
Presidential love letters
Here is your Valentine’s Day post. It comes, via LitHub, from Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?: Letters of Live and Lust from the White House. A taste: When a man writes a letter to a woman […]
The Author’s Corner with Fergus Bordewich
Fergus Bordewich is an independent historian and writer. This interview is based on his new book, Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction (Knopf, 2023). JF: What led you to write Klan War? FB: Many of my […]
What Liz Cheney forgot to mention on Tuesday night about U.S. Grant and the end of the Civil War
On Tuesday night, Liz Cheney referenced General Ulysses S. Grant’s leadership of the Union army in 1864: In May of 1864, after years of war, and a string of reluctant Union generals, Ulysses S. Grant met General Lee’s forces at […]