On this day in 1822, Ulysses S. Grant, the supreme commander of the Union forces at the end of the Civil War and the nation’s 18th president, was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio. Since Grant had no ...

From modest beginnings and Civil War military victories to the United States presidency and tough times in between, Ulysses S. Grant was a complicated man in perhaps the most complicated time in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Butcher. Alcoholic. Anti-Semite. For more than a century the misconceptions and tainted legacy of Ulysses S. Grant centered either on that of a tactician inferior to Gen. Robert E. Lee or a rube ...

Ulysses S. Grant won every military campaign he led and rode his fame as a Civil War hero to a two-term presidency, yet he headed administrations blighted by scandals during a time of racial conflict.

Ronald C. White is the author of “American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant.” Over the past several years, in cities and on college campuses across the nation, Civil War statues and monuments have ...

If President Ulysses S. Grant were to step into office today, he would find a familiar scene: A divided nation scarred by violence, a recalcitrant Congress, a hostile media, and a sense that the very ...

Between 1877 and 1879, Ulysses S. Grant helped inaugurate a new era of U.S. diplomacy by launching an extensive world tour. In particular, the tour helped solidify the U.S. diplomatic position in East ...

The Ulysses S. Grant who emerges from Ron Chernow’s new biography, “Grant,” is a man with quite a story to tell. I could easily imagine the pitch for a modern-day memoir: Grant’s struggles with ...

For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But in the United States Army, his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart. Born ...