American History Review: How the Victors Divvied the Spoils at Yalta
Historian Preston argues that Stalin did not actually make patsies of Roosevelt and Churchill
Book Review: Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway
Louis Kraft takes another look at the 1864 Sand Creek massacre, the beginning of the end for the Cherokee and Arapaho way of life
Night Rescue on Tiger Mountain
Volunteers risked it all to save their 7th Cavalry comrades in the A Shau Valley
Little Mac on the Move
Primary accounts dispel General McClellan’s supposed inactivity at Antietam.
Book Review: Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls
Jerry Thompson profiles outlaw Joe Lynch Davis, a catalyst of Oklahoma's bloody Porum Range War — and the author's grandfather
Cloaked Vengeance: George Pickett and the Hanging of Union Prisoners
What was a bitter George Pickett thinking when he ordered the hanging of Union prisoners at Kinston, N.C., in 1864?
Scratchboard Artist Kody Bundy
Bundy connects with horses and Western wildlife in her chosen medium
Painter at War: Winslow Homer’s Civil War Art
In 1861, Harper’s Weekly sent future master painter Winslow Homer to cover the Civil War. View our online gallery of some of his wartime artwork
The Mann Act: How a Law Meant to Help Women was Misused
An act meant to protect women wound up being a cudgel against common adulterers and men on the FBI's blacklist
American History Review: Gentlemanly Nathanael Greene’s Biggest Headache Was His Rude, Crude, and Successful Subordinate
Ungovernable guerrilla Thomas Sumter helped his straitlaced commander win the American Revolution in the South
How the Americans Beat Britain’s Best Generals
How an 'ill-armed peasantry' beat the daylights out of Clinton, Cornwallis, and a raft of professional soldiers
Book Review: Cherokee Bill
Art T. Burton reveals Cherokee Bill, one of the deadliest badmen of wild and woolly Indian Territory
