A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is once again joined by Fergus M. Bordewich to discuss his new book, Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction.They chat about the formation of the Ku ...

Ulysses S. Grant commanded Union forces during the Battle of Belmont in Southeast Missouri in 1861. It was his first combat experience of the Civil War. The general would later become the 18th ...

The siege ended with decisive victory for the Union, with Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendering to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia, on April 2, 1865, seven days after the fall of ...

This video offers a historic walkthrough of Ulysses S. Grant’s residence in Galena, IL, where he lived after the Civil War.

An early battle in the Civil War, the Battle of Shiloh in southwestern Tennessee was one of the deadliest. The Confederate army scored an initial victory against Ulysses S. Grant’s Union army in ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Historian and author Fergus M. Bordewich will discuss his new book “Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction” on Tuesday Oct. 1 at 6:30 p.m. “Klan War” ...

Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich Knopf, 480 pp. For a long time, the way historians wrote about Reconstruction only made matters worse.

Unraveling Ulysses S. Grant's Complex Relationship With Slavery December 5, 2023 Terrorized African-Americans Found Their Champion in Civil War Hero Robert Smalls ...

Fergus M. Bordewich’s "KLAN WAR: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction," a stunning account of President Grant’s federal campaign against the Ku Klux Klan from 1865 and onward.

Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction Fergus M. Bordewich. Knopf, $35 (480p) ISBN 978-0-593-31781-5 ...

Author Fergus Bordewich chronicled President Ulysses Grant's efforts to dismantle the Klan's rise in power during Reconstruction.