Roy Young is editor of the Wild West History Association Journal and researches the West, including the tales of three Stil(l)wells.
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Book Review: The Great Bicycle Experiment, by Kay Moore
Kay Moore’s Great Bicycle Experiment explores the short-lived, adventurous military exploits of the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps.
Emancipation Proclamation
Information and Articles About the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln during the […]
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Book Review: Line in the Sand, by Rachel St. John
In Line in the Sand, Rachel St. John recalls the frontier origins of the U.S.-Mexico border and the complicated and often-contentious issues that persist even today.
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Daily Quiz for October 26, 2010
There were 132 years between the birth of this president’s oldest child and the death of his youngest child.
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Daily Quiz for October 7, 2010
This president lost his son to blood poisoning that was caused by playing tennis on the White House court.
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Emancipation Proclamation returns to the White House
This past June, while the sputtering economy, seemingly bottomless oil spill and the war […]
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Wild West Magazine Article Wins Spur Award
Roger Di Silvestro won a coveted Spur Award from Western Writers of America for his nonfiction article about Theodore Roosevelt, “Teddy’s Ride to Recovery,” which appeared in the October 2009 Wild West magazine.
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Death and Civil War America: Interview with Drew Gilpin Faust
Drew Gilpin Faust discusses her book, “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” a thoughtful study of the impact of the war’s massive death toll on society and government.
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Letter from November 2006 America’s Civil War Magazine
“Tin can on a shingle,” some Union soldiers would say upon seeing Monitor; “Cheesebox […]