The Great American History Blog

  Plenty Coups   was the last traditional chief of the Crow Tribe and a visionary leader. Plenty Coups experienced a vision when he was ver...

  Plenty Coups was the last traditional chief of the Crow Tribe, renowned for his warrior prowess and prophetic visions that shaped his peop...

  The Crow tribe allied with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. Army during the 1876 Great Sioux War primarily because...

  George Armstrong Custer relied heavily on Native American scouts. These men, primarily from the Arikara and Crow tribes, served the U.S. A...

  Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War hero and 18th U.S. President, died on July 23, 1885, at age 63 from throat cancer at Mount McGregor in New Yor...

  Captain James Cook, the renowned British explorer, met his untimely end on February 14, 1779, during his third Pacific voyage aboard HMS R...

  In the mid-19th century, the turbulent landscape of Mexico became the stage for one of history's most poignant tragedies: the ill-fate...

  In the late 1880s, the Ghost Dance movement swept through Native American communities, offering hope of a spiritual renewal that would res...

  George Washington died on December 14, 1799.   Fearing premature burial, he requested of his doctors to be “decently buried” and to “not l...

  Designed in utmost secrecy for the I-400-class submarine carriers, the Aichi M6A Seiran (“Mountain Haze”) was a sleek, single-engine float...

  During World War II, Imperial Japan developed the massive I-400-class submarines, the largest non-nuclear subs ever built until the 1960s....