19th Century
Published: May 22, 2012 at 4:13 pm
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One Mile of Open Ground
By Allen Barra
Was Pickett's Charge really necessary?
As a Union Prisoner Saw the Battle of Gettysburg
By Asa Sleath Hardman
A Yank with a grandstand seat left a …
Ron Soodalter |
Published: May 09, 2012 at 4:40 pm
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Disgrace was a fate worse than death for a soldier. And thousands of soldiers died to prove it
Honor is a complicated word to define. The concept of honor, according to historian and ethicist Bertram Wyatt-Brown, "seems inherently …
Published: May 09, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Rebels go marauding, emancipation occupies Abraham Lincoln and starving Sioux get restless
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1 – Battle of Malvern Hill ends the Seven Days' battles with a Union victory.
The Revenue Act of 1862 establishes the Bureau of Internal Revenue …
Published: May 03, 2012 at 10:20 pm
J.C.A. Stagg addresses the War of 1812 in his latest book, looking at the causes of the war, the performance of U.S. forces, and the winners and losers of the conflict.
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Published: May 03, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Paul L. Hedren, author and retired NPS superintendent, considers the decline of the Sioux nation in the wake of their 1876 victory over George Armstrong Custer on the Little Bighorn.
Published: March 31, 2012 at 1:12 am
The Bloody Benders of Kansas were reputedly the worst serial killers of the Old West. Does anyone else on the frontier even come close? Note: The Benders sure enough killed many unwary travelers, but greed seemed their principal motive.…
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 11:59 pm
Since 1961 the Fort Worth museum has showcased the works of Remington, Russell and other legends of Western art.
David McCormick |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 11:33 pm
The odd Kansas foursome ran an inn that proved deadly to travelers for years before suspicious neighbors did some digging in the family’s apple orchard and learned the gruesome facts
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 10:54 pm
In his new book After Custer, Paul Hedren draws on his extensive knowledge of the Great Sioux War to paint a picture of changing life on the Prairie in the wake of the Little Bighorn.
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Published: March 30, 2012 at 10:32 pm
Paul L. Hedren shares his unprecedented knowledge of the Great Sioux War in After Custer, an account of the rapid changes on the Plains in the wake of the Little Bighorn.
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Published: March 30, 2012 at 10:17 pm
In Custer's Best, U.S. Army veteran Colonel French L. MacLean relates the history of 7th U.S. Cavalry Company M, one of a dozen companies that followed George Custer to the Little Bighorn in June 1876 and fought atop Reno Hill.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 9:32 pm
Roy Young highlights Arizona Territory Judge William H. Stilwell in this biography, the first volume of a trilogy about the Stilwell family in the Wild West.
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Published: March 30, 2012 at 8:57 pm
The National Film Preservation Foundation takes a look at the "real West" that followed and overlapped the real West in its latest "Treasures" release "The West, 1898-1938."
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Published: March 30, 2012 at 8:32 pm
A what-if drama centered on Western outlaw Butch Cassidy, "Blackthorn" isn't a bad film, but it is a strange film.
Published: March 30, 2012 at 7:11 pm
In the June issue of Wild West, readers share dispatches about photographer John Swartz, Buffalo Bill, Homestead National Monument, desperadoes of the Ozarks, the two Emma Mastersons and Tennessean Clay Allison.
Gregory Lalire |
Published: March 30, 2012 at 3:27 pm
The 19-century Wild West was notorious for its violence, but would any of its cold-blooded man-killers meet the modern definition of a serial killer?
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