A son, later named Hiram Ulysses Grant, is born to tanner Jesse R. Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio. Ulysses attends the Presbyterian academy at Ripley, Ohio. On ...

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Ulysses Simpson Grant joins American Experience's presidential hall of fame Sunday, providing further evidence that this PBS series profiles presidents better than anybody on television. It takes four ...

Reconstruction might be the single most difficult moment in the American past. It came in the wake of what might be the bravest moment, the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery. But the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 Lincoln, I ...