On July 11, 2018, David Nolen presented "The Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum" as part of the History Is Lunch series.

The facility opened November 2017 at Mississippi State University. The 21,000-sq.-ft. addition to the Mitchell Memorial Library contains a state-of-the-art facility chronicling Grant’s life and his significance in American history.

The museum’s artifacts and interactive media allow visitors to engage with the context of the times and discover intimate details of Grant’s personal life and beliefs. The facility also contains a gallery dedicated to the Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana. It displays, on a rotating basis, more than 100 of the 17,000 artifacts and 12,000 books included in the Williams Collection, which the former Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice and his wife, Virginia, amassed over several decades.

David S. Nolen is an associate professor at Mississippi State University and the assistant editor and reference librarian of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and Congressional and Political Research Center. He earned his MLIS degree from the University of Alabama and holds an MA in Spanish from the University of Florida and a BA in Spanish and Latin American studies from the University of Alabama.

History Is Lunch is a weekly lecture series of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History that explores different aspects of the state's past. The hour-long programs are held in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum building in Jackson. MDAH livestreams videos of the program at noon on Wednesdays on their Facebook page, [ Ссылка ].

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