One would hope that one's work makes the reader engage with the past with empathy and insight. It's left to them to decide what to feel about what the historian has said. Intent is not impact.

What makes one person feel good (or understood) may not hold for someone else.

Sheridan was a year away from becoming a thing of the past when he said this.

Grant made that trip via Panama in 1852. Harrowing experience. As president he advocated building a canal.

Quite the obsessed fan.

But Democrats get in their own way.

Fire the person responsible for hiring this person.

Abe's aged.

It's a photograph.

Ulysses S. Grant.