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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.
In what year was Yellowstone National Park established as the world's first national park? Test your knowledge of Yellowstone National Park! Attempt this GK quiz on its location, wildlife, and facts ...
The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, Sarna has been a force in his ...
The latest book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant ...
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 ...
It's the nation's semiquincentennial! July 4, 2026, is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of ...
By this Declaration, Americans asserted their unwillingness to be serfs or vassals to an unaccountable ruler, but rather as ...
On July 4, 1863, after 47 days of battle, Lt. General John Pemberton’s Confederate troops surrendered to General Ulysses S.
The 250-statue National Garden of American Heroes, originally set for completion in July 2026, should be finished “during” ...
Arguably the most important victory of the revolution was won in autumn 1777, on a farm in upstate New York, by a storekeeper ...
This is the fifth in a series of articles about Marshalltown street names. Today’s article identifies the five city streets ...