Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Southern Illinois University Edwardsville history professor Erik Alexander talked about what America was like in 1869 and provided an overview of the ...

He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses S. Grant, but he also brought along two prospectors, outfitted at his expense.

“Grant’s approach to Reconstruction was more than a domestic policy—it was an international movement,” Semmes said. “His ...

Stony Ford co-owner Susan Brinson provided the strongest evidence yet that Ulysses S. Grant did in fact smoke a cigar at the Goshen estate in his waning days. Grant historian Ben Kemp found ...

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 ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We turn now to “Unconditional Surrender Grant.” Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president - He was named Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when he entered the ...

Ownership of the archives and collections of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum was formally transferred to ...

President Ulysses S. Grant was especially known to have several unusual and unique preferences, including eating pickles and coffee for breakfast and drinking a specific brand of bourbon by the ...

STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University is home to the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, a massive collection of ...