Ulysses S. Grant

When Ulysses S. Grant entered the president’s office in 1869, echoes of the Civil War tensions that he helped to resolve still reverberated in his mind—and in the nation at ...

The summer of 1885 was a scorcher, but that wasn’t the hot topic in America that year. On ...

There’s an old joke that goes, “Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?” The answer, of course, is Grant. That ...

“Each person’s life is a kind of battle,” the philosopher Epictetus wrote more than 2,000 years ago. What ...

Here is where Ulysses S. Grant spent his vacations.

First lady Julia Dent Grant was an anchor for our 18th president.

When President Ulysses S. Grant—helped by Don Pedro II, emperor of Brazil—hand-cranked the 40-foot-tall, 600-ton engine to life, ...

A lot of folks continue their education after leaving school. Doctors, attorneys, nurses, computer programmers, and many others ...

Commentary More than 150 years after he led the Union Army to victory in the Civil War, Ulysses ...