Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president - He was named Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point his name was miswritten as “Ulysses ...

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 ...

1.Victoria Woodhull ran in 1872 as a candidate of the Equal Rights Party against Ulysses ... and for vice president in 2020 ...

For much of his life, Ulysses S ... terms as president are best remembered for financial scandals among members of his party and his administration. In 1877, after he left office, Grant traveled ...

On page 931 of his 1,074-page biography of Ulysses S. Grant, author Ron Chernow drops an interesting, if relatively unimportant, local tidbit about the Civil War hero and 18th president of the ...

Semmes, historian and Mississippi State Ulysses S ... equality and citizenship beyond the U.S. Focusing on Grant’s 1869 push for the annexation of the Dominican Republic, Semmes argues the president ...

Grant Presidential Library and Museum was formally transferred to Mississippi State University March 20. The agreement between the university and the Ulysses S. Grant Association, the collection’s ...

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 ...

General in Chief of the Union Army and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant rose from comparative obscurity to become general in chief of the Union army late in the war, securing victory by through ...