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On July 23, 1885, just after completing his memoirs, Civil War hero and former president Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat ...
The 18th president's descendant had a storied career in museum curation before turning his attention to an affable vampire.
A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku Klux Klan.
For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But in the United States Army, his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart. Born ...
The country was in rough shape when President Ulysses S. Grant took office in 1869. Political parties were mutating, many families remained divided over who was to blame for the nation's divisions ...
Today, we commemorate the 200th anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant’s birthday. Born to humble beginnings, this great defender of America won our bloodiest war, trampled the dark forces of disunion ...
If President Ulysses S. Grant were to step into office today, he would find a familiar scene: A divided nation scarred by violence, a recalcitrant Congress, a hostile media, and a sense that the ...
That may be why Ronald C. White’s new biography of Ulysses S. Grant, American Ulysses (Random House, 667 pp., **** out of four stars), seems especially relevant, despite its focus on the sepia ...
The legacy of Ulysses S. Grant isn’t getting any less complicated 200 years after his birth.Grant battered the slave-owning South into surrender as President Abraham Lincoln’s top Union ...
Were you Seen at the Ulysses S. Grant Bicentennial Birthday Gala presented by The Friends of the Ulysses S. Grant Cottage featuring special guest, actor Treat Williams, and virtual appearances by ...