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A collector believes a photograph from a private album of Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant shows President Abraham Lincoln in front of the White House and could be the last image taken of him ...
The legacy of Ulysses S. Grant isn't getting any less complicated 200 years after his birth. Grant battered the slave-owning South into surrender as President Abraham Lincoln 's top Union general ...
The bronze equestrian statue of Ulysses S. Grant in Lincoln Park, Illinois, from a digitally improved reproduction of an original print from the 19th century.
A collector believes a photograph from a private album of Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant shows President Abraham Lincoln in front of the White House and could be the last image taken of him ...
Sometimes tangents of local history led to major events. Take the case of Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln and a bitter rift between their wives.
The Ulysses S. Grant Monument in Chicago’s Lincoln Park on March 3, 2021. Kate Masur, a historian and professor at Northwestern University who is not on the monument committee, said Grant sought ...
A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...
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 ...
There could be no guarantee that Gen. GRANT's career will not be arrested before he deals the rebellion the finishing stroke, but the reelection of President LINCOLN.
This video offers a historic walkthrough of Ulysses S. Grant’s residence in Galena, IL, where he lived after the Civil War.
For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But in the United States Army, his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart. Born ...
Bordewich’s positive view of the former general adds to a trend among contemporary biographers toward seeing him as a relatively effective president.