The president responsible for giving America the federal Christmas holiday is getting a special day of his own. Beginning next year, April 27 will be celebrated as Ulysses S. Grant Day in the iconic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. General Grant stands in front of his campaign tent at his headquarters in Virginia in 1865. Bettmann/Getty Images Tucked away in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The legacy of Ulysses S. Grant isn't getting any less complicated 200 years after his birth. Grant battered the slave-owning South ...

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 ...

Friends at the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site near St. Louis tell me most visitors arrive with little knowledge of Grant—but leave with deep appreciation. In my biography of Abraham Lincoln, ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We turn now to “Unconditional Surrender Grant.” Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president - He was named Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when he entered the United ...

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.

America's 18th president, Ulysses S. Grant, didn't grow up in opulence in his hometown of Georgetown, Ohio, where his family operated a tannery. Grant spent most of his time raising horses on his ...

Among recent articles commemorating the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War was one about Ulysses S. Grant, in which the author mistakenly gave his name as Ulysses Simpson Grant (The ...

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 ...

This nearly 10-acre site is dedicated to the U.S. Civil War general and two-term U.S. president, Ulysses S. Grant, who lived here with his wife, family and enslaved workers in the 1850s. A large ...

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 ...