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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Hayes Home will welcome the premier living history presenter portraying U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant on May 16. Curt Fields, who has portrayed Grant in 22 states, will discuss the successes ...

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 ...

This nearly 10-acre site is dedicated to the U.S. Civil War general and two-term U.S. president, Ulysses S. Grant, who lived here with his wife, family and enslaved workers in the 1850s.