A fifty-dollar bill lasts for about nine years on average. What kinds of materials are used to make a $50 bill? The $50 bill is made of 75% cotton and 25% linen. Why did Ulysses S. Grant get to be on ...

Maybe because they are so unpopular, the $50 bill is the least printed currency out of all six denominations, if you don’t count the rare $2 bill. Ulysses S. Grant Wasn’t Always on the Front ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A congressman from North Carolina wants the $50 bill redrawn to feature the face of former President Ronald Reagan. Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry wants Congress to tell the U.S ...

For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed at every occupation he tried. But in the United States Army, his remarkable talents as a soldier and leader saved his country from falling apart. Born ...

That president was Ulysses S. Grant, and it happened while he was in office. In 1872, President Grant was speeding down a Washington, D.C., street in his horse and buggy.

In 1868, he became the youngest man yet elected to the U.S. presidency, serving two terms marred by scandal. Grant's memoirs, completed only days before his death, are considered among the best of ...

When police officer William Henry West pulled over Ulysses S. Grant for speeding in a horse-drawn carriage on the streets of Washington, D.C. in 1872, he issued the president a warning.

As Union General Ulysses S. Grant pushed southward from Tennessee into Oxford, Mississippi, in December 1862, he felt the pressure of the Southern cotton economy closing around him.