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 ...

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 ...

Americans were in shock in early July 1876. It wasn’t supposed to have been that way. It was the country’s centennial, after all, a time for a national party. Instead, stunning news came from the ...

Custer’s Last Stand is a staple of American history. The tragic tale of the massacre of the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn is most closely associated with Gen. George Custer, ...

On June 25, 1876, Gen. George Armstrong Custer — actually, he was a lieutenant colonel by that date, general having been the rank achieved during the Civil War — became immortal for losing a battle so ...

Take a tall, thin young man, who smokes a pipe, which he tends to leave places absentmindedly, who runs to tweedy attire, who wears glasses. Come now, class, what is this young man going to be? Right, ...