President Ulysses S. Grant didn't just have a favorite breakfast and drink; he also had a preference for adding lemon zest to his rice pudding.

Long before the notion of "comfort food" became popular, former President Ulysses S. Grant had a favorite recipe for rice pudding. The Union Army general might have enjoyed a dish of the stuff ...

Donald Trump is the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges. But Ulysses S. Grant was the first president to be arrested.

Read an electronic edition of Ulysses Grant's famous Personal Memoirs, a 19th-century bestseller. Battling terminal throat cancer, Grant raced to complete his account of the Civil War. Thousands ...

More than a million people attended Ulysses Grant’s funeral in New York City on Aug. 8, 1885. That was more people than came out to mourn Abraham Lincoln, the man who had served as president ...

President Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding in 1872, more than 150 years before former President Donald Trump was indicted.

This was the great privilege of reading Ulysses as a native of the city it has immortalized: The fictional world of the book mapped onto the physical reality of the streets and buildings, so that ...

The Grant-Lee lunch reminded me of the power of sharing food together. It's hard to be enemies while breaking bread together, so useful is meal-making as a reconciling and bonding event.