This is an I-Heart podcast.

This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories.

And we tell stories about everything here on this show, from the arts to

sports and from business to history and everything in between. And we love telling stories about

history. As always, all of our stories about American history are brought to us by the great

folks at Hillsdale College, where you can go to study and learn about all the things that matter

in life and all the things that are beautiful in life. And if you can't get study and learn about all the things that matter in life and all the things

that are beautiful in life. And if you can't get to Hillsdale, Hillsdale will come to you with their

free and terrific online courses. Go to Hillsdale.edu. And now, this is the story of our 18th

President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant. But this story isn't about his time as

Commander-in-Chief, but rather the events in his life up to that point that shaped and

molded him as a man. Here's our own Monty Montgomery on the story.

Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27,, 1822 in the small town of Point Pleasant, Ohio,

to parents Jesse Rutt Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant.

Here's Dr. John Marsalach of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library with more.

His mother and father were very, very important people in his life in different ways.

His father is more or less of an abolitionist, and he also wrote for a newspaper, which leaned

in an abolitionist direction.

So he's very outgoing.

The mother, she is a very, very shy person. She doesn't

give Grant the kind of love or support that you might expect for a mother to give. The father was

always the presence in his life and always told him what to do, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

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