The Kansas Department of Transportation has started multiple highway resurfacing projects along sections of U.S. 56 and K-25.

Ronald C. White is the author of “American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant.” Over the past several years, in cities and on college campuses across the nation, Civil War statues and ...

Ulysses S. Grant rose from comparative obscurity to become general in chief of the Union army late in the war, securing victory by through pure perseverance and by exhausting the Confederates.

Ulysses S. Grant Finally Gets That Promotion. The Civil War general was elevated to general of the armies of the United States, a title his admirers had long sought.

That president was Ulysses S. Grant, and it happened while he was in office. In 1872, President Grant was speeding down a Washington, D.C., street in his horse and buggy.

For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But in the United States Army, his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart. Born ...