Hello, I’m Scott Isebrand.
I’m a communicator and educator at heart, and I love history. I’ve been marketing director for a textbook publisher, a religion news and forums website, and an events venue, later becoming the venue’s chief operating officer.
As a resident of Manhattan’s Upper West Side for more than two decades, I thought I appreciated Grant’s Tomb—officially the General Grant National Memorial—and all it represented besides being the landmark I turned around at when jogging in Riverside Park. (See “Grant’s Tomb as Revealed to Me.”)
But in 2021, History’s Grant miniseries, based on Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ron Chernow’s Grant biography, taught me a lot that I hadn’t know about Ulysses S. Grant, who led the U.S. Army to victory in the American Civil War before serving two terms as the 18th president of the United States.
With a friend’s encouragement, I launched Ulysses S. Grant Revealed, to coincide with the April 27, 2022, bicentennial of Grant’s birth.
Please join me in exploring U.S. Grant’s life and times. They touch on American topics relevant today like race, identity, reconciliation, and reform. And the personal successes, struggles, and shortfalls of Ulysses Grant can speak to us as individuals, too.