After two missed tries, the literary state senator will lend his voice to James Joyce’s “monumental, musical, bawdy” masterpiece. Pennsylvania state Sen. Nikil Saval talks politics and literature at ...
Who is on the 50-dollar bill? Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th U.S. President, is the fifty-dollar bill president. Learn why ...
For a few years I thought Ulysses S. Grant was a "slovenly drunk and a bad general" because a high school history teacher told us so.
During the Civil War, Grant earned the nickname “Unconditional Surrender” – a play on his initials – after he captured an entire Confederate army in February 1862. It was the first major northern ...
Ulysses S. Grant’s standing among the presidents has improved in recent years, with critically acclaimed biographies by Ron Chernow and others offering a new perspective on his time in the White House ...
James Joyce’s Ulysses is one of the most important books to be written by a biped. It is on many peoples reading list, but seldom completed. The novel is fairly daunting and this is prompting Dublin ...
For a few years I thought Ulysses S. Grant was a "slovenly drunk and a bad general" because a high school history teacher told us so. By contrast, Robert E. Lee was a principled gentlemanly military ...
Ulysses S. Grant’s standing among the presidents has improved in recent years, with critically acclaimed biographies by Ron Chernow and others offering a new ...