Category: U.S. Grant
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…
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…
Roscoe Conkling, NY’s Patronage King and Paramour of Chief Justice’s Daughter, Profiled in WaPo
The Washington Post has an interesting article on Roscoe Conkling, the patronage king of New York’s Republican Party. Conkling entered the Republican Party as a…
Podcast on Grant the Lover, the Fighter, and the Writer
This podcast from the Washington Post looks at U.S. Grant through his love letters and through his memoirs. There is a fascinating discussion of the…
June 1865 Ulysses S. Grant Worried that Confederates Fleeing to Mexico Posed Threat to U.S.
Following the complete defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, thousands of Confederate veterans, politicians, and their family members fled to Latin America. Most of these…
Reconstruction Era Ku Klux Klan Act Being Used to Sue Ex-President
I was planning on writing about the Ku Klux Klan Act, also known as “The Third Enforcement Act,” this year. Just as I was re-reading…
In 1876 the Senate Tried a Former Sec. of War’s Impeachment Trial Even Though He Left Office Months Before
During Reconstruction, President Ulysses S. Grant’s Secretary of War was impeached by the House of Representatives and tried by the Senate AFTER he had resigned…
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