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 ...

Ulysses S. Grant’s first inaugural ball in 1869 ended in upper-class chaos. The workers running the coat-check mixed up all the claims, leading to fights and tears among the guests trying to ...

As a soldier, General Ulysses S. Grant had depended upon the able ... and favored their extermination. But not Grant. At his inauguration, Grant said that he would "favor any course toward ...

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 ...

It’s not the first inauguration ceremony to be held indoors ... Official weather record-keeping began in 1873, beginning with Ulysses S. Grant’s second term. It’s also at that time that ...

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 ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Ryan P. Semmes, historian and Mississippi State Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library research director examines the far-reaching implications of Reconstruction in his first book ...

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 ...

As a soldier, General Ulysses S. Grant had depended upon the able ... and favored their extermination. But not Grant. At his inauguration, Grant said that he would "favor any course toward ...