Ron Chernow (left), Pulitzer-Prize winning author of “Grant” and “Alexander Hamilton,” signs a book for Allie Nichols, a junior secondary education major from Gulfport, during a Wednesday [Nov. 29] book signing at Mississippi State University’s Old Main Academic Center. The book signing is among many events taking place as part of the grand opening for the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and the Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana. For more, visit library.msstate.edu/grantopening.