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 ...
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 ...
He was born in Virginia, but some say there is a case to be made that he should be considered an Ohio president.
While Lincoln has ranked at the top of each survey, the two presidents who served right before him – Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, both sympathetic to slavery – and his immediate successor, ...
“Unconditional Surrender: A Visit with Ulysses S. Grant” will be offered twice on President’s Day, Monday, Feb. 17, at noon ...
The Harlan-Lincoln House Museum https://www.harlanlincoln.org was originally the home of Sen. James Harlan whose daughter ...
Tom King, a former Enid High School history teacher and Chautauqua scholar, came into his study of Ulysses S. Grant, a Civil ...