For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But in the United States Army, his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart.

Curt Fields will present a program on May 16 about Grant’s two terms as president. Grant was Rutherford B. Hayes’ ...

O n page 931 of his 1,074-page biography of Ulysses S. Grant, author Ron Chernow drops an interesting, if relatively unimportant, local tidbit about the Civil War hero and 18th President of the ...

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 ...

Grant Presidential Library and Museum was formally transferred to Mississippi State University March 20. The agreement between the university and the Ulysses S. Grant Association, the collection’s ...

We took a historic tour of General U.S. Grant's Home. We are not able to do any metal detecting on this site but wanted to share this important part of history with our viewers. U.S. Grant was the ...

Ulysses S. Grant, who lived here with his wife, family and enslaved workers in the 1850s. A large portion of the original 850-acre estate was sold off to the Busch family and now operates as Grant ...

Perhaps no state did more to advance and propel the career of Ulysses S. Grant than Mississippi. Thus, it stands to reason that his memoirs are housed at Mississippi State – one of only six ...

Grant historian Ben Kemp found further information that corroborates — and then complicates — that story. See the epilogue below. On page 931 of his 1,074-page biography of Ulysses S.

An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision, announced on this day in 1862, was immensely controversial and hounded him for years Eli Wizevich The Union general directly ...