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Explore the Grant Trail for the Grant Bicentennial

For Ulysses S. Grant’s 200th Birthday you might want to drive the Land of Grant Trail in Ohio. Here is a link where you can…

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U.S. Grant & Race April 26 Virtual Event from Illinois State Museum Grant Bicentennial

The Illinois State Museum has a virtual event for the Grant Bicentennial on the early evening of April 26. Here is info from the museum….

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Grant Cottage in Upstate NY April 27th Event Honoring Grant on Bicentennial

The Grant Cottage in Wilton, N.Y. will host a ceremony honoring Ulysses S. Grant on his April 27th 200th Anniversary Birthday. The site is where…

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Celebrate Grant Bicentennial at Grant Monument in Washington, D.C. April 26

The Grant Monument in front of the U.S. Capitol will be the scene of a commemoration Ulysses S. Grant’s 200th Birthday on April 26. Note…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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