For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried ... ignoring the fact that the small, skinny 17-year-old did not want to go. Upon his arrival at West Point, Grant ...

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 ...

We took a historic tour of General U.S. Grant's Home. We are not able to do any metal detecting on this site but wanted to share this important part of history with our viewers. U.S. Grant was the ...

As Ulysses S. Grant's funeral procession made its way through ... Among those mourners were three United States presidents. If old enemies from the Civil War carried grudges, they set them aside.

Potatoes: God’s Gift to Mankind (Or Maybe Just to Me) If You Love Democracy, You Should Celebrate the End of Net Neutrality Toward Joy Goes Off the Rails at the Brooklyn Museum The Great ...

It is hard to give up an old and cherished friend ... A song was produced for his 1868 campaign song titled “For President Ulysses S. Grant A Smoking his Cigar,” and in 1884 one newspaper ...

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 ...

Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register as Ulysses Simpson Grant, he eagerly ...

I refer to Ulysses S. Grant. Unlike that of Jimmy Carter ... in England and America for Promoting Sawdust, Instead of Good Old Cheese, Amongst the Jews in Jerusalem.” In it, he compared cheese ...

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 ...

An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision, announced on this day in 1862, was immensely controversial and hounded him for years Eli Wizevich The Union general directly ...