Pittsburgh tackles intricacies of hosting leaders

2010-02-25T04:38:23Z

<div id="subtitle">Lincoln, Grant, others have slept in Pittsburgh _ but not at once; G-20 poses a new challenge</div><div><p>The Prince of Wales slept here. So did Abe Lincoln. And Vicksburg 1863" (Alfred A. Knopf, 496 pages, $30), by Winston Groom: Many books have examined the Union siege of Vicksburg, Miss., over the yea...

Florida News - February 18, 2009

2009-04-21T02:39:44Z

021809 met wax bk Photo by Brandon Kruse/The Palm Beach Post 0061418A - Boca Raton - Meredith Mallinger, 13, poses as Ulysses S. Grant Wednesday afternoon at Mississippi State University, oddly, becomes the new home of prized Ulysses Grant collection</div><div><p>Mississippi might seem like an unlikely place to honor Ulysses S. Grant.</p><p>After all, the Union general's military victory at

Grant Goes South

2009-03-14T16:52:08Z

John Marszalek, overseer for the collection of former president Ulysses S. Grant's personal papers, documents and memorabilia, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009 at the Archives Department of the Mitchell Memorial Library on the campus of White House moves and mix-ups from Ulysses S. Grant to George W. Bush</div><div><p>White House moves have not always gone smoothly. Here are a few of the mix-ups between comings and goings of former presidents, adapted from "

Historians battle Wal-Mart over key Civil War site

2010-03-03T02:05:36Z

<div id="subtitle">Burns, McCullough join battle over Wal-Mart near Civil War site where Grant first fought Lee</div><div><p>Wal-Mart wants to build a Supercenter within a cannonshot of where Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant first fought, a proposa...

NYC museum exhibit compares Civil War icons

2010-02-28T01:35:39Z

<div id="subtitle">NY Historical Society offers similarities, contrasts in exhibit on iconic Civil War generals</div><div><p>Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee met face-to-face only twice — once toward the end of the war with Mexico in 1848, and 17 years later at United States says he's convinced by the president's TV appearances lately that George Bush may be back on the booze.&a...

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Pittsburgh tackles intricacies of hosting leaders

Florida News - February 18, 2009

Grant Goes South

Historians battle Wal-Mart over key Civil War site

NYC museum exhibit compares Civil War icons