19th Century
Published: November 04, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Compare the strategic objective of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (to compel the United States to sue for peace) with that of the Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaeda terrorist attacks (to provoke a global religious war).…
Jon Guttman |
Published: November 04, 2011 at 5:39 pm
A samurai's daisho comprised the long katana fighting sword and the shorter wakizashi for close combat or, if need be, ritual suicide.
Michael W. Robbins |
Published: November 04, 2011 at 2:13 pm
The American military has a long and uneven history of working toward full and fair treatment of blacks and other minorities.
Harold Holzer |
Published: October 28, 2011 at 10:45 am
Abraham Lincoln's critics were vitriolic, but at least he didn't have to deal with them in a daily twitter feed.
This past summer, a beleaguered Barack Obama invited a new wave of criticism—if such criticism really surprises him or us …
Published: October 28, 2011 at 10:44 am
January
1 - The Lincoln administration releases Confederate emissaries James Mason and John Slidell from Fort Warren in Boston Harbor, ending the Trent Affair. The diplomats continued their voyage to Europe, on an unsuccessful mission to win support for the …
Ron Soodalter |
Published: October 26, 2011 at 11:29 am
A bird's-eye view of pre-war New York displays the shipping commerce that made the city rich. Image courtesy of Library of Congress.
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Because of a production problem, a portion of this article was omitted from …
Published: October 09, 2011 at 9:59 pm
How do you rate the performance of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer at the November 27, 1868, Battle of the Washita (near present-day Cheyenne, Okla.), including the way he handled the loss of Major Joel Elliott and his small party …
Published: October 06, 2011 at 5:01 pm
In the December issue of Wild West, readers bend our ears about Texas badmen, Pat Garrett, frontier surveyors and personal recollections of the West.
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 U.S. Cavalry officer Major Joel Elliott at the 1868 Battle of the Washita—and Lt. Col. George Custer's response to it—spawned disunity within the ill-starred 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.
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