The 18th president's descendant had a storied career in museum curation before turning his attention to an affable vampire.

This video offers a historic walkthrough of Ulysses S. Grant’s residence in Galena, IL, where he lived after the Civil War. The home is preserved with many original family artifacts and serves as a ...

The 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment engaged in the first action of the Battle of Gettysburg, defending Union positions and ...

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku Klux Klan.

New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...

Lincoln was, as usual, astute. The abolitionist movement in the North was led by Christians convinced that God abhorred ...

As we approach the 250th anniversary next year of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War ...

Readers expecting to experience the Vicksburg Campaign through a pre-adolescent’s rough-honed grammar will pleasantly encounter a fast-flowing and well-written historical tale in Fred Grant at ...

Politics comes at you fast, so if you’re making election law changes based on short-term interests, you might end up screwing yourself,” Senator Schuyler VanValkenburg told Radio IQ.

This nation did not become great because it was perfect; it became great because Americans recognized their imperfections as ...

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