The Great American History Blog

In 1874, George Armstrong Custer published My Life on the Plains , an account of his career as an Indian fighter to that time....

Sioux representation of the Battle of the Little Bighorn In his book, A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last...

Captain Thomas Weir In his book, A Terrible Glory:Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West , ...

Custer's Last Battle      William A. Graham published TheStory of the Little Big Horn: Custer's Last Fight , the first a...

Comanche When General Alfred Terry and his column arrived at the Little Bighorn on June 27, 1876, George Armstrong Custer and o...

Custer's Last Fight (1925 Version) In 1912, Thomas Ince produced Custer’s Last Fight , the first film depiction of the even...

 The Last Stand     Six months after the battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25, 1876), Frederick Whittaker’s  A Complete Life...

Jack Jouett   In 1781 the British stepped up operations in the Southern theater of war.   Benedict Arnold and a British fleet rav...

Libbie Custer      Custer’s widow was left with large debts that her husband incurred speculating in the stock market.   Mrs. E...

Martha Washington We don’t generally think of Martha Washington as a vivacious fashionista.   She has come down to us after t...

Custer      Six months after the battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25, 1876), Frederick Whittaker’s A Complete Life of Gene...

National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia “Incentive is not ordinarily part of an infantryman’s life. For him there are no ...