When General Grant Expelled the Jews by Jonathan Sarna

Just weeks before Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, General Grant issued what remains the most notorious anti-Jewish order by a government official in American history: Order No. 11, expelling the Jewish population from  portions of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi.

Historian Jonathan D. Sarna, in the first complete account of this little-known episode, sheds new light on Grant, the Jews of his day, and the ongoing debate between ethnic and national loyalty.