The idea did not totally die with Lincoln, however. By the time Ulysses S. Grant was sworn in in 1869, he was already supporting an ongoing plan to annex Santo Domingo for several reasons. This ...

Eight years later, after a second stint as a soldier and general, Ulysses S. Grant was elected president of the United States. Most of us have heard about Ray Kroc of McDonald’ s fame or Colonel ...

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Ulysses Alberto Grant is known for Un Día de Mayo.

Some words may be mispronounced. The Harlan-Lincoln House has received funding from Humanities Iowa, a private, nonprofit organization to host a presentation called Unconditional Surrender: A Visit ...

The august scholar has two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Humanities Medal. In “The Stained Glass Window,” he seeks to ...

America’s first IRS commissioner helped raise the vast sums needed to wage the Civil War and was a strong advocate of racial ...

By TR Just like a myriad of other things, there is an amazing number of facts and trivia surrounding the U.S. Presidents ...

The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum in Adams, Mass., is celebrating what would have been the suffragette's 205th birthday ...

In 1860, a 38-year-old man was working as a handyman for his father, a leather merchant. He kept books, drove wagons and handled hides. Prior to this menial job, the man had failed at every occupation ...

The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum in Adams, Massachusetts, is celebrating what would have been the suffragette's 205th ...