Column: State needs a commemorative President U.S. Grant Day

Grant resided in the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois from spring 1860, following his first stint in the U.S. Army, until ...
Smithsonian Magazine

One Was a Teenage Diplomat. Another Was a Nuclear Engineer. Here’s How Eight Presidents Made Their Mark Outside of the White House

From Abraham Lincoln's patent to James A. Garfield's geometry proof, learn how these 19th- and 20th-century commanders in ...
North Country Public Radio

The Man Who Took On The Klan

In 1871, Ku Klux Klan violence in South Carolina got so bad that the governor sent a telegram to President Ulysses S. Grant warning that he was facing a state of war. Grant sent him Amos Akerman: a ...