‘An American perspective’: MSU displays 19th century cannon outside Grant Library
Duffy Neubauer, the curator of the Starkville Civil War Arsenal and a self-proclaimed “cannon guy,” was cleaning the barrel of a Model 1841 “6-pounder” cannon in December when he came across something he didn’t expect.
Ulysses S. Grant impersonator speaks at Grant presidential library
To hear him tell it, Curt Fields is the best-known impersonator of the least-known, best-known person in American history.
MSU celebrates Grant Library, Lincoln Collection openings
On Thursday, violins, singing and even a pair of impersonators dressed as former presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant heralded the grand opening of the Grant Presidential Library and Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana in Mississippi State University’s Mitchell Memorial Library.
Public invited to Grant, Lincoln events next week at MSU
The Mississippi State University community is invited to three public events next week that will mark the opening of the new home of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and the Frank J. and Virginia Williams Collection of Linolniana.
MSU-based Ulysses S. Grant Association announces bicentennial commission
The Ulysses S. Grant Association is set to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the former president’s birth after officially forming a bicentennial commission to commemorate the occasion.
Grant collection at MSU ‘wonderful resource’
From one perspective, it might seem odd that the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library would be located in Mississippi, where Grant’s siege of Vicksburg in July 1863 was a decisive moment in the defeat of the Confederate Army during the Civil War.