Tucson’s Medicine Man: Dr. Mark Sublette
The former physician runs an art gallery, hosts a podcast and writes—most recently a biography of painter Maynard Dixon
Letter From Wild West — February 2020
In the February 2020 issue writer Gregory Michno argues the "mythical frontier of straight-arrow, sharpshooting riflemen never existed"
Book Review: True Grit
Colorado's Ridgway Western Heritage Society offers John Wayne fans a wide-format, photo-laden 50th anniversary look at the filming of True Grit
Book Review: A Wyatt Earp Anthology
Editors Roy Young, Gary Roberts and Casey Tefertiller sample the body of biographical works written about famed lawman Earp
American History Book Reviews: The Robber Baron Who Gave Us Silicon Valley
Leland Stanford bribed, stole, and murdered his way to fame and acclaim
Rambling: Suburban Sprawl Is Destroying the Stones River Battlefield
An Afghan War veteran laments the disappearance of hallowed landscape
Insight: A Historian Explains How Republicans Misjudged the Threat of Secession
David M. Potter's scholarship explains how the North saw Southern rhetoric as 'crying wolf'
Civil War Veterans’ Shocking Souvenirs—Bullets in Their Bodies
Decades after soldiers were wounded, bits of lead showed up in X-rays, or simply appeared
How Stonewall Jackson’s Death Site Became a Tourist Attraction
Confederate veterans created shrines to memorialize the general and attract travelers' dollars
Peril on the Potomac: The Sinking of Black Diamond
Dozens die as troop transport collides with barge hunting for John Wilkes Booth
America’s Civil War Book Reviews: The Role of Rangers in the Civil War
The latest books on the Civil War
Explore the Haunting Remnants of Civil War Prisons
As the conflict went on, conditions for captives became more and more inhumane
The Battle of Orange Court House: Mounted Mayhem in the Streets
Much-maligned Yankee cavalry finally got the best of its Confederate rivals
Ex-Rebel Cullen Baker Was a Post-War Murdering Madman
After the Civil War many dispirited Southerners rallied around Cullen Baker, a cold-blooded Arkansas killer they propped up as a defiant ex-Rebel who continued to champion the Lost Cause.
Appomattox Apple Tree Yields Prize for Winner’s Wife
Exquisite jewelry carved in the shape of acorns presented to Julia Dent Grant
Field Notes: New Home for Dallas Robert E. Lee Statue
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