Former President Ulysses S. Grant was a military man through and through which could help explain why his favorite breakfast ...

AMERICAN ULYSSES: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant, by Ronald C. White. Random House, 826 pp., $35. A mix-up on his first day at West Point in 1839 bestowed the name Ulysses S. Grant on the young cadet born ...

Today, we commemorate the 200th anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant’s birthday. Born to humble beginnings, this great defender of America won our bloodiest war, trampled the dark forces of disunion, and ...

Ulysses S. Grant’s national financial understanding and expertise (including monetary policy) progressed across his ...

Grant had concerns over the long-term future of newly-emancipated Black Americans and how they would co-exist with white Southerners. Historians told Insider they believe this story can inform the ...

Donald Trump on Thursday became the first former president ever to be indicted — though over 150 years ago a sitting president, Ulysses S. Grant, was arrested for speeding in his horse-drawn carriage.

American political thinking has a way of coalescing around concepts that hold the public’s attention for a time, then fade. “Temperament,” for example, is on many tongues this election season, after ...

“He’s been called so many things over the years,” an interviewee says in the first trailer for History’s miniseries on Ulysses S. Grant. Here are a few: “The first modern American warrior,” “a bloody ...

Ulysses S. Grant led the Union’s victory in the civil war before serving two terms as president. Was he a brutal general and incompetent president — or a brilliant strategist who should be praised for ...

Ronald C. White is the author of "American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant" (2016). Friends at the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site near St. Louis tell me most visitors arrive with little ...

General Ulysses S. Grant’s cased Remington New Model Army revolvers are much more than the most expensive guns ever sold at auction. They are treasures that embody the convergence of art, history, and ...