It would become his calling card, not backing down. Once Grant was brought East, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee faced the ...

Ulysses S. Grant continued the American tradition of electing military figures as presidents—those men who led and won key battles in war. Attempting to be apolitical, Grant campaigned on the ...

Ulysses S. Grant was born. U. S ... president are best remembered for financial scandals among members of his party and his administration. In 1877, after he left office, Grant traveled with ...

When Ulysses S. Grant left the White House in 1877, he certainly needed a vacation. His reputation had been severely damaged by corruption in his administration and his party. And the ...

Potatoes: God’s Gift to Mankind (Or Maybe Just to Me) If You Love Democracy, You Should Celebrate the End of Net Neutrality Toward Joy Goes Off the Rails at the Brooklyn Museum The Great ...

Perhaps no state did more to advance and propel the career of Ulysses S. Grant than Mississippi. Thus, it stands to reason that his memoirs are housed at Mississippi State – one of only six ...

“Unconditional Surrender: A Visit with Ulysses S. Grant” will be offered twice on President’s Day, Monday, Feb. 17, at noon ...

The Mark Twain House & Museum is hosting a reading of a play about the friendship between Twain and President Ulysses S. Grant ... with a historic house party “Grant & Twain” had its world ...

Ulysses S. Grant, who lived here with his wife, family and enslaved workers in the 1850s. A large portion of the original 850-acre estate was sold off to the Busch family and now operates as Grant ...

An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision, announced on this day in 1862, was immensely controversial and hounded him for years Eli Wizevich The Union general directly ...