This video depicts the pivotal moments when General Ulysses S. Grant outmaneuvered Robert E. Lee, signaling the beginning of ...

Discover Ulysses S. Grant’s local connections at the 12th annual symposium in Cape Girardeau on Nov. 7, featuring expert speakers and a tribute to historian Frank Nickell. Registration required.

The Smithsonian’s collections speak to the resolve and ingenuity of America’s service members A chess set used during the ...

Army Sgt. John Preston Donaldson of Butler, a Commissary Sergeant during the Civil War, was at the Village of Appomattox ...

Mounted on the wall of my home’s library hangs a wood framed shadow box holding the Civil War mementos from my ...

Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Formosus's body was actually recovered and put back in its tomb. 2. TIL that there was once ...

President Donald Trump has destabilized this arrangement more than any president in recent memory. He has imposed National ...

The Ulysses S. Grant Symposium returns to Cape Girardeau on Nov. 7, featuring expert talks on Grant’s Civil War legacy, a ...

Rutherford B. Hayes visited the following year as a sitting president; no other sitting president visited the lake until Bill ...

STARKVILLE — America’s struggle for independence that began 250 years ago will take center stage next month as Mississippi State’s Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library hosts the screening of a new ...

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