Historical Figures
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 …
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 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.
Gerald D. Swick |
Published: October 04, 2011 at 9:52 pm
The new PBS documentary 'The War of 1812' goes beyond the myths and the few well-known events of 'the war we don't know much about' to present a balanced, informative and engrossing program.
Jay Wertz |
Published: September 29, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns explores the Prohibition years in a new PBS special that begins Sunday.
Madhusree Mukerjee |
Published: September 29, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Churchill's friend and scientific adviser had the prime minister's full faith—even when he shouldn't have
Marc Leepson |
Published: September 15, 2011 at 12:27 pm
On a 1966 tour of Vietnam, the legendary Israeli military leader came to some stunning conclusions about the U.S. war strategy
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: September 09, 2011 at 11:41 am
Robin Waterfield chronicles the wars between Alexander's successors for control of his empire.
Michael and Barbara Foster |
Published: September 08, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Adah Isaacs Menken, aka “The Naked Lady,” may have begun life as a poor girl from New Orleans, but with talent and courage she became THE outstanding actress during the era of America's Civil War.
Allen Barra |
Published: September 08, 2011 at 4:24 pm
In 1914 Hollywood director Raoul Walsh
went to Mexico to film a revolution,
courtesy of General Pancho Villa
Published: September 08, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Doug Waller reveals OSS founder "Wild Bill" Donovan, chosen across party lines by Franklin Roosevelt, and a man revered by his agents and reviled by the Pentagon.
Gordon Berg |
Published: August 18, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Walt Whitman has the reputation as a Civil War writer, but it was his younger brother, George Washington Whitman, who saw the war up close and personal as a member of Company K, 51st New York Volunteer Infantry.
Published: August 05, 2011 at 5:15 pm
A slew of Old West gunfighters were born or later made their mark in Texas. How would you compare the Lone Star State to Arizona Territory, New Mexico Territory, Missouri, California and the rest of the Western frontier with regard …
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