We often picture Ulysses S. Grant as the fierce, cigar-chomping military commander who grimly led the Union army to victory during the American Civil War. His stern gaze looks out from historical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The legacy of Ulysses S. Grant isn't getting any less complicated 200 years after his birth. Grant battered the slave-owning South ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. General Grant stands in front of his campaign tent at his headquarters in Virginia in 1865. Bettmann/Getty Images Tucked away in ...

Friends at the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site near St. Louis tell me most visitors arrive with little knowledge of Grant—but leave with deep appreciation. In my biography of Abraham Lincoln, ...

Today, we commemorate the 200th anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant’s birthday. Born to humble beginnings, this great defender of America won our bloodiest war, trampled the dark forces of disunion, and ...

If President Ulysses S. Grant were to step into office today, he would find a familiar scene: A divided nation scarred by violence, a recalcitrant Congress, a hostile media, and a sense that the very ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We turn now to “Unconditional Surrender Grant.” Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president - He was named Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when he entered the United ...

America's 18th president, Ulysses S. Grant, didn't grow up in opulence in his hometown of Georgetown, Ohio, where his family operated a tannery. Grant spent most of his time raising horses on his ...

Donald Trump on Thursday became the first former president ever to be indicted — though over 150 years ago a sitting president, Ulysses S. Grant, was arrested for speeding in his horse-drawn carriage.

Among recent articles commemorating the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War was one about Ulysses S. Grant, in which the author mistakenly gave his name as Ulysses Simpson Grant (The ...

American political thinking has a way of coalescing around concepts that hold the public’s attention for a time, then fade. “Temperament,” for example, is on many tongues this election season, after ...

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