For much of his life, Ulysses ... a grateful Abraham Lincoln appointed Grant commander of all the U.S. armies, with the rank of lieutenant general. No soldier since George Washington had held ...

As Union General Ulysses S. Grant pushed ... asking Abraham Lincoln for his “effectual and immediate interposition.” When that didn’t work, he set off for Washington on a “Paul Revere ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham ... aggressively. In Ulysses S. Grant, the president ...

Though modern job approval metrics were a bit lacking during the late 1790s, historians have for decades considered George Washington to be among the most popular, most effective and most ...

There's a huge market for signatures of former U.S. presidents like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt. Barry Petersen spoke with a collector about the ...

“[George] Washington had no place within his administration for nepotism and wanted all appointments to be based on merit,” wrote Cyrus A. Ansary in “Dealmaker-In-Chief.” Abraham Lincoln ...