Next, students view and analyze three video clips that explain the events that led to Ulysses Grant’s inauguration as president. From there, students learn about the first 100 days of Ulysses ...

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 ...

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.

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

Woodrow Wilson’s first inauguration in 1913 was the warmest with a noon temperature of 55 degrees. Ulysses S. Grant’s second inauguration in 1873 was the coldest at 16 degrees, with a wind ...

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 ...

It’s not the first inauguration ceremony to be held indoors ... Official weather record-keeping began in 1873, beginning with ...

Ulysses Grant's father Jesse could pinch a penny as well ... She never visited Washington during her son's presidency — not even for his inauguration. After the death of her husband, Hannah ...

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 ...