This video offers a historic walkthrough of Ulysses S. Grant’s residence in Galena, IL, where he lived after the Civil War. The home is preserved with many original family artifacts and serves as a ...

The Grant Cottage State Historic Site had a very special visitor last week as part of it's free summer program series.

Loved ones of Judge Ulysses Boykin are saying goodbye to the trailblazing public servant who worked in Metro Detroit for 30 years. He died of natural causes on May 12.

Throughout the recorded history of northern Dakota Territory and North Dakota, public figures often appeared in news headlines who had family members that lived in this territory or state.

Grant moved to St. Louis, where he failed at several pursuits. Ulysses then moved his family to Galena, Illinois, where he took a job as a clerk in his father's leather goods shop.

On this day in history, Ulysses S. Grant, a West Point graduate and the 18th president of the United States, died of throat cancer in New York at the age of 63.

The descendants of seven presidents commemorate Presidents' Day in Florida by sharing anecdotes about their ancestors and hopes for the future.

Grant Had Guts and Was Persistent Through Victory Gen. William T. Sherman approached Grant expecting to receive orders to withdraw saying, “Well, Grant, we’ve had a hell of a day.” ...

The Rev. John H. Linn married Julia Dent and Lt. Ulysses S. Grant in her family's city residence, 701 South Fourth Street, on a hot Aug. 22, 1848. The wedding rated three lines in the newspaper ...

The first, of his great-great-grandfather Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, and the second, of the prominent Dietz family, owners of the Dietz lantern company.