The badge features a tintype photograph of Ulysses S. Grant set into a brass frame, which would have originally been attached to a pin and displayed on clothing. Location Currently not on view Credit ...

Grant’s love of cigars was well-known in his time. A song was produced for his 1868 campaign titled “For President Ulysses S. Grant: A Smoking his Cigar,” and in 1884 one newspaper called ...

As portents go, little could be more ominous than what took place on the evening of March 4, 1873, at the inaugural gala for President Ulysses S. Grant’s second term.

One often overlooked and underappreciated is Ulysses S. Grant, a victorious Union army general, accomplished U.S. president and man of destiny, especially for his role in helping to achieve ...

Timeline of Ulysses Grant, from his birth on April 27, 1822, to his death on December 14, 1902.

WASHINGTON – At President Donald Trump’s campaign rallies, history usually begins at the 2016 election. But the president embarked on a lesson of the Civil War while speaking to an audience in ...

Fergus Bordewich’s Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction is the first large-scale attempt to restore Grant’s presidency to a position of nobility for his campaign to ...

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s pending promotion sheds new light on his overlooked fight for equal rights after the Civil War Published: December 5, 2022 8:26am EST • Updated: December 11, 2022 11 ...

After a resounding election victory in 1868, President Ulysses S. Grant ushered in the first of three Enforcement Acts in 1870 that empowered him to “sustain the provisions of the Fifteenth ...