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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The picture painted by Brooks Simpson in his recent biography of "Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865," illuminates a man as complex and contradictory as we might ever puzzle over.

While Reading Brad Neely’s “You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant,” I kept thinking of Norman O. Brown’s writing about the excremental vision, as employed by Jonathan Swift and James Joyce, and applied to a ...