re: #33 Shiplord Kirel

US Grant is another much vilified president whose reputation is improving in light of 21st century sensibilities. He had some of the same problems as Harding, he relied on corrupt friends, and the same strength, a genuine concern for civil rights. Grant’s military reputation has also improved by leaps and bounds among modern historians and analysts.

I’ve always found this rather peculiar, this anti-Grant view. Of course the post-Civil War nation, especially after Reconstruction, became much more sympathetic to the South. I suspect that is part of the reason why Grant attracted at least some of the hostility he did. Generations of historians afterward viewed Reconstruction negatively, and along with that, the President who was most responsible for its implementation. At the same time, the notion arose that Lee was some sort of “noble” man, even a “patriot”. I still don’t get this.