Ulysses S. Grant
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Over the past fifty years, scholars have come to assess the career of Ulysses S. Grant more understandingly and sympathetically than was once the case. While earlier treatments of both his military and political life emphasized his shortcomings, more recent biographers and Civil War historians have tended to paint a more balanced view, and focus on his many successes.
Mick Chantler
Mick Chantler, MA, concluded his 36 year career in teaching at Sonoma Valley High School and currently teaches courses in the OLLI programs at Dominican University of California, Sonoma State University and UC Berkeley. As a lifelong student of the Civil War era, he is a member of the Lincoln Forum and was pleased to organize the Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration for the City of Sonoma in 2009. In 2010 he coordinated the American History Series at the Sonoma Valley Library. Mick’s other interests include the history of baseball and he is a long-standing member of the Society for American Baseball Research.