The 18th president's descendant had a storied career in museum curation before turning his attention to an affable vampire.

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers if ...

What a Simple Pen Reminds Us About Ulysses S. Grant’s Vision for a Post-Civil War America President Grant’s signature on the 15th Amendment was a bold stroke for equality ...

This video offers a historic walkthrough of Ulysses S. Grant’s residence in Galena, IL, where he lived after the Civil War.

Books Ulysses S. Grant’s Forgotten War The 18th president continued his Civil War battles with an all-out fight against the Ku Klux Klan. The history books barely mention it.

MARIETTA — A special meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley will be 7 p.m. Thursday, May 22, at First Congregational Church, 318 Front St., Marietta. The presentation will ...

The Civil War general was elevated to general of the armies of the United States, a title his admirers had long sought.

What “new title” was Ulysses Grant given by Congress at the end of the Civil War and what was he responsible for? With what had Grant and other Republicans become “disillusioned?” ...

Attendees of the sold-out March 8 Springfield Civil War Symposium had gained a full understanding of how busy undertaker and soldier were in the war’s final year by day’s end when they rose in ...

A rare image of Ulysses S. Grant smoking a cigar, from a series of “photosculptures” taken by Huston and Kurtz Studio. The Civil War general and 18th president of the United States had a well ...

On this day in history, Ulysses S. Grant, a West Point graduate and the 18th president of the United States, died of throat cancer in New York at the age of 63.