President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran, Herbert Preston. Copyright © 2017 by Wendel A. White President Ulysses ...
April 9, our great Union of states will officially be celebrating the 160th Anniversary of the official End of the Civil War with General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to ...
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 ...
“Grant’s approach to Reconstruction was more than a domestic policy—it was an international movement,” Semmes said. “His ...
After his death in office, the ongoing conversation about term limits became urgent. The nation was traumatized and searching ...
Grant's Farm was built by Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who settled on the land in 1855 to farm and raise cattle. In 1903, August A. Busch Sr. bought the land, and ever since it has belonged to ...
Ownership of the archives and collections of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum was formally transferred to Mississippi State University March 20. The agreement between the ...
STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University is home to the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, a massive collection of ...