Remembering Grant. The National U S Grant Trail Association has inherited three major educational programs that were established by its predecessor, Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation, and they are: 1) an annual academic symposium that features scholars from across the country, and a growing national audience; 2) a site marking program, so far confined to Missouri Civil War sites and themes; and 3) a public education and tourism promotion endeavor, the original “U. S. Grant Trail,” which now encompasses sites in Illinois and Kentucky as well as in Missouri. The National U S Grant Association is planning other educational ventures, while it continues to grow the core elements of its educational mission.
The U. S. Grant Symposium was first presented, in St. Louis, in 2014. In its 8th year in 2021, the event is held each year on or near the anniversary of Ulysses Grant’s death in 1885. Our Keynote Speakers over the years have included historians Ronald C. White, John Marszalek and Timothy B. Smith, and many other notable speakers. Click here to view a gallery and slideshow of past events.
Plans for the ninth annual Symposium are well under way; we have a heightened sense of purpose since it will be held during the bicentennial year of Grant’s birth.
Our Eighth Annual U. S. Grant Symposium, which concluded on July 23, 2021, concentrated on African American troops in the Civil War, and Ulysses Grant’s relationship with those troops. As in the case of symposiums past, the event featured a Keynote Address, a character portrayal, and two other lectures. The Keynote Address was delivered by Maj. Gen. Byron S. Bagby…
Evidence of Ulysses Grant’s legacy is sprinkled all over eastern Missouri, as it is in southern Illinois, in western Kentucky and in Tennessee. In Missouri, 40+ interpretative panels have been placed thanks to contributors to Missouri’s Civil War Heritage Foundation. Many of these document Grant’s presence in this state: From Jefferson Barracks near St. Louis, where he…
The 9th Annual U. S. Grant Symposium is scheduled to occur on Saturday, July 23, 2022, and it will again be hosted by the Soldier’s Memorial Military Museum in St. Louis. Once again, the Symposium will be ZOOMED™ to a national audience.
Watch this space: The National U. S. Grant Trail Association will contribute a…