Major Ulysses Grant Lee Jr., Ph.D. (December 4, 1913 – January 7, 1969) was a U.S. soldier, scholar, professor, writer, editor and American military historian.

He contributed to the Federal Writers' Project, co-edited The Negro Caravan with Sterling Brown and Arthur P. Davis, and wrote the official U.S. military history of African-American service in World War II, The Employment of Negro Troops, published in 1963[a] by the United States Army Center of Military History.

[6] Lee's FWP work included contributions to the American Guide Series book City and Capital (1937) and The Negro in Virginia (1940).

"[8] He also published book reviews, such as a commentary on J. Winston Coleman's Slavery Times in Kentucky, which he acknowledged as valuable while simultaneously identifying cases of paternalistic condescension in the text.

One reviewer, Harvey Curtis Webster, wrote of the book, "The pleasure of reading The Negro Caravan is hardly undermined by the fact that one emerges a more enlightened human being.

[1] Robert R. Kirsch, the Los Angeles Times book editor, called it "incisive and penetrating...takes up the hard questions and does not compromise on the answers.

[15] In the year prior to his sudden death from a heart attack at age 56 he was studying the socioeconomically—and thus racially—disproportionate impacts of Vietnam War-era military draft system.