On July 23, 1885, the United States lost one of its defining figures. Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) — Hiram Ulysses Grant was born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. He received a nomination to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He was known as Ulysses to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Ulysses S. Grant - Stock Montage/Getty Images America's 18th president, Ulysses S. Grant, didn't grow up in opulence in ...

The release of Christopher Nolan’s much-awaited Odyssey gives me — me and every other SOB with a lease on some newspaper real ...

President Grant and the continuing Civil War / Richard N. Current -- Ulysses S. Grant for today / E.B. Long -- "We sail directly for the Isthmus" / Charles G. Ellington -- General Ulysses S. Grant: ...

Who's buried in Grant's Tomb? Technically speaking, no one — the tomb is above ground, so the proper question would be "who's interred in Grant's Tomb?" That answer is a little more straightforward: ...

Illinoisans celebrate our 16th president and defender of the Union on Feb. 12, a state holiday. The rest of the nation remembers Lincoln, along with George Washington, on Presidents Day on Feb. 16. In ...

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 ...