When the Soldier’s Toughest Battle Was Against Boredom
'I would rather go there and run the chances of being Shot than Stay here all Summer.'
Civil War Circuses Beloved by Blue and Gray Audiences
Soldiers and civilians flocked to see the freakish and fantastic
George Caleb Bingham: Missouri’s Painter of Populism
When his home state was a political borderland, artist's most famous works celebrated frontier democracy
McClellan: Did He Have the ‘Slows’ or a Supply Crisis?
Though most historians call him a crybaby, documents show Washington deliberately withheld needed matériel
Schuyler Hamilton, Scion of American Heroes, Is a Civil War ‘What If’
Alexander Hamilton's grandson was born to be a great general, but illness intervened
For Your Civil War Buff’s Bucket List: Centralia, Mo.
When history travel becomes a reality, visit the small town where the border war got seriously ugly
Online Exclusive: How Collectivism Nearly Sunk Early Colonies
Only when settlers instituted private property rights did the New World thrive
Explore Antietam: A Bucolic Setting for a Bloody Day
A few of our favorite locations on the war's most gory single-day battlefield
How Civil War Weather Forecasting Changed Future Conflicts
Surgeons kept temperature, pressure, wind speed, and humidity records—but they didn't know what to do with the data
Freeda Hartzell: That Other ‘Champion Rifle Shot of the World’
Among those to follow in Annie Oakley's footsteps was trick-shooting prodigy Freeda Hartzell.
George Custer and the ‘Other’ 7th Cavalry
Before George Armstrong Custer’s 7th U.S. Cavalry made its mark out West, the 7th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry was busy battling Plains Indians.
Law and Some Disorder in the Old West
Most Old West lawmen did laudable duty, some even became famous—but a few others stood out by working both sides of the law
Book Review: Tombstone
Tom Clavin completes an entertaining trilogy with this treatment of Tombstone, the Earps and the Cowboys
