TROY – In full Union Army dress and speaking as if straight from the 19th century, living historian Kenneth J. Serfass ...

New York Today Ulysses S. Grant Finally Gets That Promotion The Civil War general was elevated to general of the armies of the United States, a title his admirers had long sought.

For much of his life, Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart.

In 1868, Grant was the obvious choice for the Republican nomination and he handily won the election that November. Ulysses S. Grant was set to become the 18th President of the United States.

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

Unraveling Ulysses S. Grant’s Complex Relationship With Slavery The Union general directly benefited from the brutal institution before and during the Civil War ...

The incident that Peggy Noonan cites in “A Great Man Got Arrested as President” (Declarations, April 8) isn’t the only one in which Ulysses S. Grant acknowledged culpability and made amends ...

Local News Ulysses S. Grant posthumously promoted to 'General of the Armies' President Grant is only the third person to achieve the highest military rank in the United States Army.

Exhibition Label Born Point Pleasant, Ohio Artist Samuel Bell Waugh painted this portrait of Ulysses S. Grant just days after he became the nation’s eighteenth president. Waugh’s depiction of Grant in ...

Editor’s note: After this article was published, Stony Ford co-owner Susan Brinson provided the strongest evidence yet that Ulysses S. Grant did in fact smoke a cigar at the Goshen estate in his ...

Ulysses Grant Dietz, the great, great grandson of former U.S. President and Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant, captivated a large audience on the cottage grounds.