Ulysses S. Grant A Bibliography

Subjects:

• History » American Civil War & Reconstruction History
• History » Historiography
• History » American History (General)

Awards:

• Best Bibliographies in History 2006 RUSA History Section, Bibliography and Indexes Committee

Reviews:

• Like other volumes in the series, this one includes an exhaustive list of primary and secondary sources related to Grant's personal, military, and political life. The result is 4,242 items that span 402 pages. As a tool for researchers this bibliography is indespensable.
  —H-Net Reviews January 2008
• It is the most comprehensive bibliography on Ulysses S. Grant to date, covering every facet of the president's life. Kelsey has compiled more than forty-two hundred entries including monographs, articles, dissertations, government documents, and more....It is recommended for both public and academic libraries.
  —Reference & User Services Quarterly Summer 2006
• There is much information available about Grant (1822-85) during the Civil War, in which he was a heroic general for the US, says Kelsey, but very little scholarly work on his presidency in 1869-77, and most of that soundly negative without much factual background. She cites, and in most cases briefly describes and assesses, sources within such sections as manuscript and archival sources, his published writings and speeches, his military career in the Mexican War and the Civil War, the elections and his two presidential terms, family and personal life, post-presidental years, iconography and dramatic media, and historical sites and organizations.
  —Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2005

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
  Manuscript and Archival Sources
  Published Writings and Speeches of Ulysses S. Grant
  Biographical Publications of Ulysses S. Grant
  Childhood and Early Development
  Military Career, Part 1: Mexican War, Western Posts, Civilian Life
  Military Career, Part 2: Return to the Army, War in the West
  Military Career, Part 3: Lieutenant General, War in the East, The Grand Review
  Military Career, Part 4: Associates and Profiles
  Early Political Career
  Presidential Election of 1868
  The First Grant Administration, 1869-1873
  Personalities of the First Grant Administration
  Presidential Election of 1872
  The Second Grant Administration, 1873-1877
  Personalities of the Second Grant Administration
  Family and Personal Life
  Post-Presidential Years
  Historiographical Materials
  Iconography and Dramatic Media
  Historic Sites and Organizations