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

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 ...

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

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

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

Arguably the most important victory of the revolution was won in autumn 1777, on a farm in upstate New York, by a storekeeper ...

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

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

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

Reminds me of a letter that Ulysses Grant was said to have sent at the start of the Civil War. Of course, the great general who subsequently became president.

Did Ulysses Grant face “foreign policy challenges” during his first 100 days in office? Detail the purpose and outcome of the “ongoing negotiations” that occurred with the British government.

Still, when a note arrives from Ulysses Grant suggesting Lee’s position is no longer tenable. When his staff advises him not to answer, he says, “It must be answered” and sends a note ...