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Our book reviewers offer up bouquets to unexpected tales of love and affection, from a long marriage to a passion for the movies.

On this day in history, Ulysses S. Grant, a West Point graduate and the 18th president of the United States, died of throat cancer in New York at the age of 63.

Recounting the experiences of one of the Civil War's most successful Union generals and the 18th President of the United States, the Rock Island Public Library's Downtown Branch presentation Unconditional Surrender: The Life of U. S. Grant will, on April 25, find re-enactor Pete Grady portraying Grant in a program that the Civil War Heritage Foundation's Greg Wolk deemed "a

Slavery, distance, family animosity, and a war conspired against Julia Dent’s courtship and then marriage to Ulysses S. ...

Driving through Missouri will give you plenty of opportunities to encounter history, music, and natural beauty.

Trudy Busch Valentine’s former plantation, Grant’s Farm, planned to help line the gun lobby’s pockets after the second-worst school shooting in U.S. history.

On Presidents Day, we celebrate the combination of what used to be separate holidays for the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

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Bleed shed and statesman ship, and still resonates today, some of historys towery figures always seem destin for greatest ins grant of the not one. >> no one seeing him growing up would have predicted he would he or she the height rgt he reached, his father was a tanner, his mother a devout methodist. >> his father swung an apartment for his son to u.s. military academy. grant did not want to go to westpoint. he thought if my father wants me to go, i will do it he graduated 21 in class of 39. br...