This Week in History: August 24 – War of 1812: The British Set Fire to the White House
At the height of the War of 1812, the British invade Washington DC, setting fire to everything as they stormed into the capital.
When the Sioux Ambushed Pawnee Hunters at ‘Massacre Canyon’
Eager to attack their traditional foes, a powerful Oglala/Brulé force thundered down on a hapless Pawnee hunting party in southwest Nebraska
California Artist Rick Hill: King of the Hill
He’s earned kudos for his Western and wildlife sculpture and has high hopes for his oil paintings
Brendan Rensink: People of the Borderlands
In his recent book Native but Foreign the author takes a close look at the Yaquis on the southern border and Crees and Chippewas on the northern border
Letter From Wild West — April 2020
In the April 2020 issue writer Don Chaput writes about Old West lawmen—the good, the bad and the two-faced
Dinwiddie County, Va.: Trailside Visits the Five Forks Battlefield
The war’s closing hours erupted in this southern seat
Book Review: The Frontier Army
Eli Paul offers fresh insights into the Old Army in this compilation of seven eyewitness accounts from the era
Audiobook Review – The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
Patricia O’Toole compellingly explains how a moralizing outlook drove Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, from WWI to handling domestic politics.
Explore Life Along the Levee
New Orlean, the Confederacy's largest and most commercially important city, fell to the Union in May 1862
Online Exclusive: Gold Fever Leads to Environmental Disaster in California
High-pressure hydraulic mining operations send toxic sludge down river, inundating towns and farms
Field Notes: Derailment Closes Parts of Harpers Ferry National Park
Two empty freight train cars fell into the Potomac River, closing sites including John Brown's Fort and The Point
A Closer Look at First Assault at Antietam’s ‘Creek of Death’
Two of the 11th Connecticut's officers died in gallant rush on Burnside Bridge
Libbie Custer’s Literary Love Affair With Her Late Husband
For nearly six decades after Little Big Horn, George Custer's widow burnished the general's reputation and wrote movingly of reconciliation with former foes
Black Pioneers Found Freedom on the Frontier Long Before Civil War
The Northwest Territory states were home to thousands of African Americans in the early 1800s
The War Came Knocking on Spanglers’ Barn Door
Farm at crucial Gettysburg intersection was commandeered as 11th Corps hospital
