Last week marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Civil War general and two-term president Ulysses S. Grant, and his legacy isn t getting any less complicated.
The legacy of Ulysses S Grant isn't getting any less complicated 200 years after his birth. Grant battered the slave-owning South into surrender as President Abraham Lincoln's top Union general, yet he owned at least one enslaved person before the war. A Native American man was among Grant's best friends…
These are 19th century men and they were more progressive than average men during that period, but they’re still struggling with some very basic issues