Topic: Ulysses S. Grant

Pittsburgh tackles intricacies of hosting leaders

Lincoln, Grant, others have slept in Pittsburgh _ but not at once; G-20 poses a new challengeThe Prince of Wales slept here. So did Abe Lincoln. And Teddy Roosevelt and Ulysses S. Grant. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev during the Cold War. More recently: Bill Clinton and John McCain. But never ...
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Groom adds voice on famous siege, `Vicksburg 1863'

Winston Groom adds his voice on famous Civil War campaign, `Vicksburg 1863'"Vicksburg 1863" (Alfred A. Knopf, 496 pages, $30), by Winston Groom: Many books have examined the Union siege of Vicksburg, Miss., over the years, but that's no reason Winston Groom should not lend his unique voice to ...
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Florida News - February 18, 2009

Florida News - February 18, 2009
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 St. Paul Lutheran School during a living wax museum of the former president. Other students from the school were able to tour the gymnasium ...
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Ulysses Grant's papers move to Mississippi school

Mississippi State University, oddly, becomes the new home of prized Ulysses Grant collectionMississippi might seem like an unlikely place to honor Ulysses S. Grant. After all, the Union general's military victory at Vicksburg helped turn the tide of the Civil War against the state and the rest of Dixie ...
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