Once you’ve read a good Grant biography or two, you may be ready to go straight to the words of the man himself. This one edited by Elizabeth Samet is a good choice.
‘Mrs Grant and Madame Jule’ by Jennifer Chiaverini
A novelist imagines how Julia Grant’s real-life enslaved maid Jule might have felt about slavery, freedom, the Civil War, and the romance of Julia and Ulysses S. Grant.
Exhibit on Grant vs the KKK through 2021
The U.S. Grant National Historic Site in St. Louis is hosting a temporary exhibit on Grant’s efforts to protect freed people in the South and his success in crushing America’s original domestic terrorists.
Grant 200th Anniversary Activities
The bicentennial of Ulysses S. Grant’s birth is coming in April 2022. Events are being planned. Meanwhile, campaigners are asking for a Grant coin and stamps, and more funding for historic sites from Grant’s life.