Ulysses S. Grant continued the American tradition of electing military figures as presidents—those men who led and won key battles in war. Attempting to be apolitical, Grant campaigned on the ...

President Grant's efforts to annex Santo Domingo were, in part, a last gasp of earlier Republican efforts to send freed ...

New York’s political class, out of step as usual with the popular mood, thinks it’s still 2017, and that its job is to ...

Ulysses S. Grant was born. U. S ... But his two terms as president are best remembered for financial scandals among members of his party and his administration. In 1877, after he left office ...

The annual Presidents’ Day celebration at the Reagan Library on Monday, Feb. 17 featured interactive activities, crafts, live ...

Diving into the favorite dishes of renowned historical figures usually brings up some pretty fascinating finds. Take Audrey Hepburn, for example, who's beloved chocolate cake used almost an entire ...

Washington, Lincoln and even Millard Fillmore and are among the presidents honored with Denver streets — and there's also one ...

President Ulysses S. Grant was especially known to have several unusual and unique preferences, including eating pickles and coffee for breakfast and drinking a specific brand of bourbon by the ...

General in Chief of the Union Army and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant rose from comparative obscurity to become general in chief of the Union army late in the war, securing victory by through ...

An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision, announced on this day in 1862, was immensely controversial and hounded him for years Eli Wizevich The Union general directly ...