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Presidential first pitches to kick off the @MLB #Baseball season from 1910 thru 1959. It continued through @BarackObama
About time to bring this tradition back!
Louis Picone - Presidential Historian & Author retweeted
How could one president accomplish so much in such a short amount of time and not be reelected to a second term? | @LouisPicone
Join me July 29 in #Brooklyn for my inaugural @lecturesontap when I discuss Ulysses S. Grant's historic 3-year #GildedAge world tour!
Sure to be an amazing & memorable night!
register @ eventbrite.com/e/lectures-on…
My #book will also be available for purchase & signing
Louis Picone - Presidential Historian & Author retweeted
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Don't miss the "Ulysses's Odyssey" #BookLaunch party May 6!!!
To reserve a spot email [email protected]
2 weeks away!
"Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire" #BookLaunch
For more information or to reserve your spot, please email [email protected]
honored to speak at Ulysses S. Grant's 204th birthday at the General Grant National Memorial on April 27.. My remarks will focus on Grant's three-year world tour.
To be followed by book signing of "Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire"
Fun fact: During his world tour in 1878 Ulysses S. Grant met Pope Leo XIII at the @HolySeeVatican & didn't fight with him
Read about it in my new book "Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire"
get your copy at amazon.com/Ulyssess-Odyssey-…
BOOK LAUNCH "Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire" at the Grover Cleveland Presidential Library in Caldwell, NJ
May 6, 6:30-8:00 PM
$10: interview, Q&A, refreshments, book signing
Reservations email [email protected]
#Audiobook release day!
Listen now to "Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire"
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On Easter Sunday, just months before he died of throat cancer, Ulysses Grant looked out the window and saw a crowd of well-wishers which inspired him to write a message of goodwill and reconciliation.
This is what a Presidential Easter Message looked like in 1885
smoke 'em if you got 'em
on display at the NJ Department of Taxation
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my new book "Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire" now available on @AmazonKindle for 40% off!
The incredible story about Grant's 3-year post-presidential journey around the world!
amazon.com/Ulyssess-Odyssey-…
"The mission of our nation is to build up and make a great country out of what we have, instead of annexing islands."
Grover Cleveland
“I could never lend myself to any transaction however respectable that would commercialize on the prestige & dignity of the office of the presidency”
Harry S Truman
Which president was the first to hang electric lights on the @WhiteHouse #Christmas tree?
read all about it at
academia.edu/44291040/Grover…
Great to see the renewed interest in James Garfield thanks to the @netflix series - check out this video I did for @prageru as part of their "5 Minute American Presidents" series
James Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, had all the makings of a great president. So why didn’t he become one? | @LouisPicone
I'm very excited to reveal the cover for my upcoming #book "Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire" to be #published by @SavasBeatie in April 2026!
Available for pre-order on @amazon at amazon.com/Ulyssess-Odyssey-…
honored to be #keynote speaker at the 27th Conference on Illinois History hosted by the @ALPLM
I will present "Mourning in America: The Assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and William McKinley"
info & reg tix.com/ticket-sales/Members…
