America's best known and most revered storyteller, Mark Twain (1835-1910), is remembered for his novels, satirical punditry ...

George Washington, the country’s first president, had several dogs including three American foxhounds named Vulcan, Scentwell, and Sweetlips and four black and tan coonhounds with themed names: ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We turn now to “Unconditional Surrender Grant.” Before Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president - He was named Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when he entered the ...

Who was Ulysses S. Grant? Was he a Civil War hero? A failed businessman? A drunkard? “Grant” delves into the stories behind the man and illuminates a great soldier and president who was faithful to ...

The young author himself admitted that a “special odor of corruption” surrounds his early stories in Dubliners, but in a letter to his wary publisher Grant Richards, Joyce justifies the ...

Newspapers in 1868 called Republican presidential candidate Ulysses S. Grant “a drunkard,” “a man of vile habit” and a “bungler”— and Grant was a war hero. In 1884, a newspaper ...

Long after the war was over, Twain befriended Ulysses S. Grant, and helped him to publish his memoirs ... the ‘son of the town drunkard’. He is ‘always the first boy that went barefoot in the spring ...

The “bleared eye, the bloated face, and the reeling step” of the drunkard are bad ... Senate and was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 3 and named after the crusader ...

Even Ulysses S. Grant, the greatest military leader of the war years, manages to go behind a cloud of corruption and indifference when he succeeds Johnson in the presidency in 1869. Klan War ...