The latest book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant ...

It's the nation's semiquincentennial! July 4, 2026, is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of ...

This is the fifth in a series of articles about Marshalltown street names. Today’s article identifies the five city streets ...

Education. “Our students need support and certainty and our school boards must be able to rely on commitments made by the ...

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

This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...

Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist's favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory ...

By this Declaration, Americans asserted their unwillingness to be serfs or vassals to an unaccountable ruler, but rather as ...

On July 4, 1863, after 47 days of battle, Lt. General John Pemberton’s Confederate troops surrendered to General Ulysses S.

Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...

Grant Village Lodge in Yellowstone National Park is named after Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th. President of the United Stat ...

The statesman turned to artmaking 110 years ago to treat his deep depression. That hobby both restored his spirits and turned ...