the dominant issues in governance at the time of Ulysses S. Grant’s tenure were related to the South and African-American civil rights. Reconstruction needed major federal intervention to prevent ...

A special meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley will be 7 p.m. Thursday, May 22, at First ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

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 ...

General in Chief of the Union Army and U.S. President Ulysses ... Grant's memoirs, completed only days before his death, are considered among the best of any written about the Civil War.

And with its end Grant’s efforts toward civil rights would not last and would eventually lead to the rise of its antithesis - the “Jim Crow” era. Ulysses S. Grant served as President of the ...

He was under orders to scout a suitable site for a military post, a mission personally approved by President Ulysses S. Grant ... States guaranteeing their rights to the region.

Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War hero and two-term president ... Grant’s overlooked legacy of civil rights, foreign policy and visionary decisions as a leader surprise as much as his abiding flaws ...

Why look back when we still have so far to go? As home to the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University has assembled a staggering array of artifacts from the famed civil war ...

Ulysses then moved his family to Galena, Illinois, where he took a job as a clerk in his father's leather goods shop. Shortly after the Civil War started in 1861, Grant once again became a soldier.