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

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

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 ...

This video delves into the pivotal strategies and campaigns of 1864 that led to the Union's decisive advantage in the ...

Unraveling Ulysses S. Grant's Complex Relationship With Slavery December 5, 2023 Terrorized African-Americans Found Their Champion in Civil War Hero Robert Smalls ...

Clip #6: Post Civil War Era (4:07). Based on the clip, what were the seven major issues Ulysses Grant faced in the early months of his presidency? What “debt” did Grant have to address as ...

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 saying “No man is a hero to his valet” was clearly not coined with Ulysses S. Grant and Harrison Terrell in mind.Terrell, who had been born into slavery two decades before the Civil War ...

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 ...

On page 931 of his 1,074-page biography of Ulysses S. Grant, author Ron Chernow drops an interesting, if relatively unimportant, local tidbit about the Civil War hero and 18th president of the ...

The Civil War general was elevated to general of the armies of the United States, a title his admirers had long sought. ... Ulysses S. Grant, who has been dead for 139 years, ...

Ulysses Grant Dietz, the great, great grandson of former U.S. President and Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant, captivated a large audience on the cottage grounds.