19th Century
Gordon Berg |
Published: February 10, 2012 at 5:46 pm
'John Brown's Body' by Stephen Vincent Benet, published in 1928, remains a vibrant tapestry of America's diversity and its unity, its 15,000 lines re-imagining the Civil War as Lincoln understood it.
Published: February 07, 2012 at 11:48 am
A letter from Pvt. William Christie, 1st Minnesota Battery, to his father. Christie's battery lost three men killed and six men wounded.
I supposed you have heard of the great battle on the 6th and 7th of this month. …
Published: February 07, 2012 at 11:20 am
On April 6, 1862, following the first day of fighting, General Ulysses Grant ordered Union gunboats on the Tennessee River to fire broadsides all through the night, in an effort to unnerve the enemy. John S. Cockerill of the 70th …
Published: February 06, 2012 at 1:30 am
Whom do you consider the most significant Lakota (Sioux) of the Old West: Sitting Bull, a warrior turned spiritual leader and Little Bighorn participant; Crazy Horse, another Little Bighorn participant and a relentless warrior in other battles; Red Cloud, a …
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: February 06, 2012 at 12:46 am
David Remley sifts the existing scholarship to provide a balanced profile of a Kit Carson that was neither hero nor villain but a complex and nuanced frontier figure.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: February 06, 2012 at 12:25 am
Garner Palenske relates the little-known story of Wyatt and Josie Earp's post-Tombstone life in San Diego.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:59 pm
With this new biography Louis Kraft establishes himself as the authority on Indian wars figure Ned Wynkoop.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:43 pm
R. Michael Wilson releases the third volume in his Legal Executions After Statehood series.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:26 pm
Larry Wood relates 22 new tales of gunfights and other notorious incidents in his latest history of the Ozarks.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 11:10 pm
Gregory Michno takes a hard look at the bitter frontier conflict between Texas settlers and Indians in the 1860s.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 10:50 pm
Hell on Wheels aspires to the success of such successful series as Mad Men or Deadwood, but the jury remains out.
Chuck Lyons |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Like hail and rain they fell from the sky—120 billion hungry insects hell-bent on ravishing the Great Plains farmland. The locusts, farmers quipped, 'ate everything but the mortgage.'
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 9:19 pm
Allen and Patty Eckman found a new home in Rapid City, S.D., and the inspiration to drive their unique sculpting method.
Candy Moulton |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 8:52 pm
Prolific writer Johnny D. Boggs excels at stories of Jesse James, Billy the Kid, the Civil War, baseball and Western films.
Published: February 05, 2012 at 6:18 pm
In the February issue of Wild West, readers chime in on the Fort Worth Five photograph, Finn Burnett and the very much alive town of Columbia, Calif.
Gregory Lalire |
Published: February 05, 2012 at 5:37 pm
Red Cloud often gets third billing—behind Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse—in the annals of Sioux history, but that is selling short his historic contributions, says R. Eli Paul, editor of the great chief's autobiography
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