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Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library This is the official page of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library. Victories in the Civil War made Ulysses S. For nearly fifty years, the Ulysses S.

Grant a national figure and propelled him into the White House. Historians and biographers have long found him to be an elusive and controversial subject. For decades, basic documents necessary to understand this complex figure--Grant's correspondence, military and government papers, and other important materials--remained scattered in libraries, archives, and private collections. Grant Association has been assembling copies of these documents in one library and in a published edition that presents authentic texts to the general public as well as to specialists. In 1962, the Civil War Centennial Commissions of Illinois, New York, and Ohio, under the leadership of some of the nation’s leading historians, established the Ulysses S. Grant Association and appointed John Y. Simon as editor. The Grant project began at the Ohio Historical Society, then moved to Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 1964. Since 1962, under Professor Simon’s leadership, the Grant Association has collected copies of every known Grant document and it continues that effort, making possible evaluations of his life and career based on documentary evidence. With support from Southern Illinois University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Grant Association has published thirty volumes of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant that cover Grant's career through 1884. Volume 31, to be published in 2009, carries Grant’s life to the completion of his memoirs and his tragic death from cancer in 1885. In July, 2008, John Y. Simon, our beloved long-time executive director and managing editor, died, and we relocated the papers from Southern Illinois University. These two events have produced the greatest changes our organization has experienced since our founding. Fortunately, our new executive director and managing editor, John F. Marszalek, is a nationally respected historian and the author of the acclaimed biography of Grant’s friend, William T. Sherman. Our new home, the Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University is providing us with outstanding support. We mourn the loss of our leader and our friend, but we look forward with great anticipation to a future of continued achievement at Mississippi State. The Grant Association plans a supplementary volume to publish important letters not available for inclusion in the original chronological volumes. We will also publish the first scholarly edition of the Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. The Memoirs will be prepared with previously unused original manuscripts. All the published volumes will be digitized, and a cumulative index of all the volumes will be prepared. A reliable documentary record of Grant's writings and those of his contemporaries provides a better understanding of both the man and his times. Members of the Ulysses S. Grant Association sustain an important historical enterprise.

Today, we had the pleasure of hosting visitors from the Irish Consulate in Miami, Florida. They are visiting the state a...
10/20/2026

Today, we had the pleasure of hosting visitors from the Irish Consulate in Miami, Florida. They are visiting the state as part of the new Mississippi/Ireland Trade Commission.

Here are the hours of operation for the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum this week. Please visit our web...
10/05/2026

Here are the hours of operation for the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum this week. Please visit our website for more information: https://www.usgrantlibrary.org/

Are you in Starkville this week? Come visit the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library on the campus of Mississippi State...
09/28/2026

Are you in Starkville this week? Come visit the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library on the campus of Mississippi State University. For information on parking, please visit our website: https://www.usgrantlibrary.org/

Do you have free time this week? Come visit us here at the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum!
09/14/2026

Do you have free time this week? Come visit us here at the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum!

Our Director of Research, Dr. Ryan P. Semmes, will be curating an online exhibit which includes some amazing original Gr...
09/08/2026

Our Director of Research, Dr. Ryan P. Semmes, will be curating an online exhibit which includes some amazing original Grant documents!

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Dr. Semmes, Director of Research for the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, will curate an exhibit of historical documents at Raab.

08/28/2026

đź“–Sunday on : Louie Gallo and David Nolen discuss their new book, "The Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman." Join us August 2 at 2 pm ET! This is a free online program for history enthusiasts of all ages.

Register at gilderlehrman.org/book-breaks

Harvard University Press

In May 1864, Alfred R. Waud, an English immigrant and one of the Civil War’s most prominent “artist correspondents,” ske...
08/19/2026

In May 1864, Alfred R. Waud, an English immigrant and one of the Civil War’s most prominent “artist correspondents,” sketched General Ulysses S. Grant shortly after he crossed the Rapidan River, beginning the Overland Campaign against Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. In the image, Grant’s army stretches out behind him, poised to advance against Confederate forces in a campaign that would ultimately bring the war to an end.

Source: Library of Congress

Today marks the anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant's death in 1885. In his final days, Grant regularly wrote notes about hi...
07/23/2026

Today marks the anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant's death in 1885. In his final days, Grant regularly wrote notes about his physical and mental state to his doctor, John H. Douglas.

For more on Grant's final days, visit the Ulysses S. Grant Cottage State Historic Site & National Historic Landmark.

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