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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. The home is preserved with many original family artifacts and serves as a ...
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 ...
Glasnevin Cemetery, Bloomsday, 2023. Actors Val O'Donnell, Paul Maher, Tim Casey, Ian Blackmore and Louis O'Byrne performed the story of Paddy Dignam's funeral as read in "Ulysses" by James Joyce ...
In the grand scheme of things, there has been Michigander who shaped impacted the presidency more than any other. Even more ...
This is the fifth in a series of articles about Marshalltown street names. Today’s article identifies the five city streets ...
Grant Village Lodge in Yellowstone National Park is named after Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th. President of the United States.
The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.
Former President Bill Clinton is embraced' after he spoke during the funeral for former Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral, Friday, June 13, 2025.
including U.S. presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. Clinton, who called Rangel one of the most effective members to ever serve in Congress, recalled the congressman's insistence on ...
And those laws were soon in coming. In the 1868 presidential election, Republican Ulysses S. Grant won the office with the slogan, "Let Us Have Peace." Republicans also won a majority in Congress.