His new presidential library opens this month at a university in the state where Grant gained fame by capturing the Confederate stronghold at Vicksburg. Mississippi State University will launch the new library and exhibit space housing Grant’s papers and artifacts on Nov. 30. The state spent $10 million to build a new home for the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University in Starkville. Mississippi State President Mark Keenum championed the library, calling it a “beacon of reconciliation” for the nation. “The renaissance of Grant literature didn’t come by accident.”Mississippi State and the association proclaimed the collection a presidential library in 2012 amid ambitious expansion plans.

Source: National Post November 16, 2017 08:45 UTC