19th Century
Gregory Lalire |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 4:22 pm
As valuable as our cover image of the Fort Worth Five may be, the only known tintype of Billy the Kid fetched $2.3 million at auction last summer.
Arnold Blumberg |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 3:44 pm
The death of popular 7th Cavalry officer Major Joel Elliott at the 1868 Battle of the Washita—and Lt. Col. George Custer's response to it—spawned hard feelings and disunity within the fabled unit.
Candy Moulton |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 3:10 pm
In his new Encyclopedia of Westward Expansion, Jim Crutchfield ably covers the frontier, from long hunters to the Army of the West.
Johnny D. Boggs |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 2:09 pm
With his monumental bronze The Birthplace of the Legend, Charlie Norton has re-created Bill Cody’s legendary buffalo-hunting contest in Oakley, Kansas.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 11:44 am
Jon Favreau's film Cowboys & Aliens leans heavy on special effects but remains an entertaining nod to the traditional Western.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 11:18 am
In Wanton West author Lael Morgan looks at the seedy side of life on the Montana frontier, that of Old West prostitutes.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 11:00 am
Author Michael Allen Harris steps into the history of jeans, farther back even than the very first pair of Levi Strauss' denims in the 1870s.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 10:29 am
In his book The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground, author Jeffrey Ostler looks at the Lakota Sioux struggle to retain and then regain the Black Hills of South Dakota.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: October 06, 2011 at 10:13 am
Chuck Parsons' book Captain John R. Hughes and Bob Alexander's book Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten pay tribute to two of the celebrated cadre of Texas Rangers who tamed the Old West.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Mike Cox honors the heroes of the Old West and Larry Johnson the outlaws of the Old West in these two entries from Turner Publishing's Historic Photos series.
Earl McElfresh |
Published: October 05, 2011 at 2:40 pm
A railroad to nowhere gave Confederates a tactical advantage at Second Manassas.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: September 09, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Michael Matheny looks at the evolution of U.S. military academy instruction in the operations discipline.
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: September 09, 2011 at 10:58 am
George C. Daughan offers an excellent overview of the U.S. Navy's rise during the War of 1812.
Published: September 08, 2011 at 2:26 pm
The United States was an upstart nation in 1801 when it waged war against the Barbary pirates. With the United States now the foremost world power, should it take the fight to today's Somali pirates?…
Michael W. Robbins |
Published: September 08, 2011 at 1:08 pm
As faithful to reality as war films may be, they are fiction and not to be confused with the real-life events that inspired them.
George Skoch |
Published: August 30, 2011 at 11:53 am
Two new books celebrate, in mostly commendable fashion, Michigan's contributions to the Civil War. Rick Liblong's Answering the Call to Duty: Saving Custer, Heroism at Gettysburg, POWs and Other Stories of Michigan's Small Town Soldiers in the Civil War (Arbutus …
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