Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire (Picone/WH) artifact We the People

We the People

Following the battle neither army was ever the same again

and finally a richer Lincoln than has come through many of the biographies of Lincoln written at a distance after his death

promises of legal equality were not enough

Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire (Picone/WH) artifact We the Peopleby Louis L. Picone Chronicles Ulysses S. Grants transformative three year world tour, revealing his travels, encounters, and enduring legacy. In May 1877, Ulysses S. Grant, newly departed from two terms in the White House, embarked on an extraordinary three year journey that defined a pivotal moment in the Gilded Age. Driven by a lifelong passion for travel and unburdened by a fixed itinerary, Grant set out to explore the world, his wanderlust