General Custer’s last stand was 150 years ago, but for descendants of the Battle of Little Bighorn’s two protagonists the ...

This Day in History. Today is known as Victory Day among many Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho people. On this day—June 25, 1876—the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples united to overcome, defeat and ...

The Battle of the Little Bighorn is one of the most famous and most misunderstood events in American history. On June 25, ...

“The Sioux say this officer was the bravest man they had ever fought.” — Sioux Chief Red Horse, 1881. “History is not history unless it is the truth.” — Abraham Lincoln, 1856. We’ve all heard the ...

The romanticized story of “Custer’s Last Stand” is indelibly etched in American memory. Yet, the true story is anything but heroic. Indeed, Custer was an unlikely leader, whose ego and recklessness ...

It was a March morning 140 years ago when soldiers left Fort Shaw on foot amid snow-covered trails and freezing temperatures. Three months later, the “Montana Column,” a 450-man fighting force led by ...

It’s hard to find a public figure in American history more divisive than the dashing Civil War hero and Plains Indian fighter George Armstrong Custer. To some, he was a romantic Western hero, to ...