It seems like Almost Yesterday that the city of Ironton, Missouri installed a series of historical markers to identify Civil ...

He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses S. Grant, but he also brought along two prospectors, outfitted at his expense.

President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran, Herbert Preston. Copyright © 2017 by Wendel A. White President Ulysses ...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville history professor Erik Alexander talked about what America was like in 1869 and provided an overview of the early months of President Ulysses Grant's ...

Lexington unveiled an arch to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War’s start. It toppled almost ...

By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2025. There are 266 days left in the year. Today in ...

Grant's Farm was built by Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who settled on the land in 1855 to farm and raise cattle. In 1903, August A. Busch Sr. bought the land, and ever since it has belonged to ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Ryan P. Semmes, historian and Mississippi State Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library research director examines the far-reaching implications of Reconstruction in his first book ...

April 7 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1862, Union forces under the command of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at Shiloh, Tenn. In 1922, under the direction Secretary of the ...