The descendants of seven presidents commemorate Presidents' Day in Florida by sharing anecdotes about their ancestors and ...

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 ...

As Union General Ulysses S. Grant pushed southward from Tennessee into Oxford, Mississippi, in December 1862, he felt the pressure of the Southern cotton economy closing around him. Smuggling and ...

It would become his calling card, not backing down. Once Grant was brought East, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee faced the ...

Ulysses S. Grant was born. U. S ... president are best remembered for financial scandals among members of his party and his administration. In 1877, after he left office, Grant traveled with ...

President Grant's efforts to annex Santo Domingo were, in part, a last gasp of earlier Republican efforts to send freed ...

The Mark Twain House & Museum is hosting a reading of a play about the friendship between Twain and President Ulysses S. Grant ... with a historic house party “Grant & Twain” had its world ...

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 ...