How Enduring Failure Becomes Its Own Form of Triumph
Few historians so aptly make Grant and his time so legible to a 21st-century readership that continues to grapple with the political legacies of slavery and the Civil War.
Brandon Wilson
Brandon Wilson is a doctoral candidate in United States history at Washington University in St. Louis. Studying the interplay between slavery, capitalism and incarceration in the antebellum South, Wilson holds the esteemed Danforth Fellowship and the Washington University Chancellor’s Fellowship.
By Brandon Wilson