Former President Ulysses S. Grant was known as a drinker on the battlefield during the Civil War. See which brand of Kentucky ...
From the end of the Civil War in 1865 until 1923, seven of the 12 elected U.S. presidents were born in Ohio — Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley ...
From the end of the Civil War in 1865 until 1923, seven of the 12 elected U.S. presidents were born in Ohio — Ulysses S.
The Civil War general was elevated to general of the ... Today we’ll find out about a recent promotion for Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who died 139 years ago. We’ll also get details on the 45 ...
The 2024 Frank and Virginia Williams Lecture on Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies will commemorate the 160th anniversary of the pivotal first meeting between U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and Lt.
Ulysses Grant's Campaign Ulysses Grant, a former popular Civil War general, was unanimously re-nominated by the Republican Party. But not everyone was happy with his leadership. A breakaway ...
And Walt Whitman wrote a long essay titled “Democratic Vistas.” The author of “Leaves of Grass” (1855), whose poems are still found in every anthology of American poetry, felt moved to address the ...
This year, Election Day falls on Nov. 5, just like it did in 1872.The country was still contending with a deep divide over ...
Donald Trump is only the second US president to regain the White House, repeating the feat of Grover Cleveland in the late ...
If there’s any takeaway from our 1890s forebears, it’s that no matter how intense an election feels, life always goes on.
As mentioned in the above quote, while the first Thomas Nast Republican elephant cartoon appeared in the Harper’s Weekly ...
Fortune cradled her for almost 100 days, but she never really held it at all. In its place, she, the Democratic elite, and ...