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A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...
This video offers a historic walkthrough of Ulysses S. Grant’s residence in Galena, IL, where he lived after the Civil War.
On July 4, 1863, after 47 days of battle, Lt. General John Pemberton’s Confederate troops surrendered to General Ulysses S.
As a result of the vast rumors tossed around that the Union, at the behest of the commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant, and President Lincoln, had targeted the city of Jackson with upcoming ...
Fred Minus brought Civil War history to life at Hopewell Valley Central High School, highlighting the experiences of Black ...
This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...
Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...
Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee was the site of a bloody Civil War battle to control the Confederate Railroad ...
Vancouver’s former Army post provided a training ground for both Union and Confederate officers until the Civil War broke out in April 1861. At the start of the Civil War, some officers resigned and j ...
The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...
The last surviving great-grandson of Ulysses S. Grant has died in a southwest Missouri home brimming with artifacts from the nation's 18th president and commander of the Union forces in the Civil ...
Every single generation is convinced, it seems, that their revolution will work, and their moment is uniquely in need of ...