Month: April 2022
Lincoln Presidential Library Commemorates Grant Bicentennial April 27th
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield will commemorate the 200th Birthday of Ulysses S. Grant’s Birthday on April 27th. Featured will be…
Video Reconstruction in the Movies-NPS Ranger Rich Condon Discusses Hollywood Depictions
Reel History is a regular series on YouTube discussing how history is portrayed by Hollywood. In this episode Reconstruction in the Movies National Park Ranger…
List of U.S. Grant Bicentennial Events In April, May, and June
I have been posting about the different Ulysses S. Grant Bicentennial events recently and decided to create a master list of those I have publicized….
Grant Bicentennial at Saratoga NY Recalls 1888 Delmonico’s Grant Birthday Dinner
This weekend, Saratoga Spa State Park near Albany, N.Y., will hold a Grant 200th Birthday event based on an actual 1888 celebration of Grant’s Birthday…
On April 27 Visit Grant’s St. Louis Home White Haven for His Bicentennial Birthday
At White Haven, Ulysses S. Grant’s home in St. Louis from 1854 to 1859, a commemoration of his 200th Birthday will take place on April…
Grant Bicentennial at Culpeper Va. This Weekend
Culpeper, Va., an hour west of Fredericksburg, will be the site of a commemoration of the Grant Bicentennial this weekend. Grant was born on April…
Metropolitan Museum of Art Changes Display of Enslaved Woman by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux created one of the best known European sculptures of an enslaved woman in the 19th Century. Called “Why Born Enslaved!,” the Metropolitan Museum…
Stonewall’s Presbyterian Theologian Robert Dabney on the Effort to Welcome Black Ministers During Reconstruction
Robert Lewis Dabney was a noted Southern Presbyterian who served as both a minister of that faith and a professor of systematic theology. Before the…
Grant Bicentennial at Grant’s Tomb in New York to Include Presentation by Biographer Brooks Simpson
Grant’s Tomb will host a ceremony honoring Ulysses S. Grant on the 200th Anniversary of his birth on April 27. The events begin at 11…
Beginning This Weekend Ohio Celebrates Ulysses S. Grant Bicentennial-Schedule
April 27 is the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Ulysses S. Grant. We are looking at some of the Bicentennial celebrations that will be…
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