For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every ... like other children on the American frontier. Grant's father, Jesse Root Grant, owned a tannery, but his son hated the horrible stench ...

As a general he had fought to preserve the Union As president he helped to oversee the transformation from union to nation As a former president he was the embodiment of the very idea of national ...

Donald Trump may be the first American president ever indicted on ... A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: That president was Ulysses S. Grant, and it happened while he was in office. In 1872, President Grant ...

Lt. General U.S. Grant during the American Civil War. Each year the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site honors the memory of Dr. John Y. Simon. This year’s lecturer is James Bultema, president of ...

Ulysses S. Grant continued the American tradition of electing military figures as presidents—those men who led and won key battles in war. Attempting to be apolitical, Grant campaigned on the ...

since we move in 1865 from one of the greatest of American presidents—Abraham Lincoln—to one of the worst, in the form of Andrew Johnson. Even Ulysses S. Grant, the greatest military leader of ...

On this day in history, July 23, 1885, Ulysses S. Grant died at his family cottage ... for the man who ended the bloodiest conflict in American history as commanding general of the Union Army ...

ST. LOUIS — Former president, Civil War hero and one-time Missouri resident Ulysses S. Grant added another honor to his name last week. Grant was conferred the rank of General of the Armies of ...

and Ulysses S. Grant,” I kept thinking of Norman O. Brown’s writing about the excremental vision, as employed by Jonathan Swift and James Joyce, and applied to a great American general in the ...

Mark Hansen of Delmar is a tour guide at the Ulysses S. Grant Cottage National Landmark and State Historic Site in Wilton, New York. For the past six years, Mark has taught visitors from all over the ...

(WILTON, NY) — The Grant Cottage State Historic Site had a very special visitor last week as part of it's free summer program series. Ulysses Grant ... War and Native American gardening.

As a general he had fought to preserve the Union As president he helped to oversee the transformation from union to nation As a former president he was the embodiment of the very idea of national ...