President Ulysses S. Grant served rice pudding to White House guests for dessert during state dinners, and he reportedly ...

Ulysses S. Grant was first elected President in 1868, as a Republican, from the state of Illinois. According to an old college history textbook, “Grant’s military triumphs during the Civil War did ...

President Donald Trump has destabilized this arrangement more than any president in recent memory. He has imposed National ...

The Ulysses S. Grant Symposium returns to Cape Girardeau on Nov. 7, featuring expert talks on Grant’s Civil War legacy, a ...

Jeffrey Rosen, lawyer and U.S. Constitution scholar, has written the second book in a series of constitutional contemplations, “The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting ...

In 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman advanced on Atlanta as part of Ulysses S. Grant’s grand strategy to break the Confederacy’s will to fight. This video explores how Sherman’s campaign ...

The Trump administration and Congress are working to restore the military's ability to repair its own equipment, which would save taxpayers billions and protect American lives.

Dubbed the "Angel's Glow" by Civil War soldiers doctors reported that those with glowing wounds had lower infection rates and ...

After the establishment of the first Grand Army of the Republic (better known as the GAR) post in County in 1881, eventually five area posts worked diligently to carry out their devotion to promoting ...

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Rutherford B. Hayes visited the following year as a sitting president; no other sitting president visited the lake until Bill ...