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Marshall plans to expand the access and visibility of USGA and simplify the visitor experience both in person and virtually. With state-of-the art archival and museum facilities to preserve and highlight the collections, Dr. Grant Association and Presidential Library into the future. Marszalek, Anne Marshall, a noted Civil War historian and professor at MSU, is the new executive director ready to lead the Ulysses S. and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, MSU leads the nation for a balanced study of the conditions that led to the Civil War, in documenting the conflict, and Reconstruction and national reunification.įollowing in the steps of two eminent historians, John Y. MSU is one of only six presidential libraries on a university campus. Keenum and Francis Coleman, then dean of libraries, invited the Grant Association to make it our new home. USGA arrived in 2009 after President Mark E. Our host institution is the Mitchell Memorial Library at Mississippi State University. Grant Association and Presidential Library, our organization takes immense pride as the purveyors of these documents of American history including the completion of the highly regarded annotated memoirs of Grant. See the 'For Students' tab on this LibGuide for more information about Grant's name. To learn about the evolution of Grant's name from Hiram to Ulysses S., here is a succinct article.
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His family called him by his middle name Ulysses, or Lyss for short. This correspondence which helped shape American history, comes from over fifty thousand documents that comprises the thirty-one volumes of The Papers of Ulysses S. At last, an inter-generational family meeting resulted in him being named Hiram Ulysses Grant. Simon, we can read of Grant’s thoughts and feelings and his everyday experiences. Thanks to the dedication of the late editor John Y. But Grant wrote more than just his memoirs. Grant’s memoirs are among the most celebrated examples of nonfiction prose ever produced by an American. Grant Presidential Library as the major repository of information about Ulysses S.