The Great American History Blog

Richmond became a major hospital center during the Civil War.   The Moore Hospital is seen below.  Running a hospital presented many challen...

The Custom House, the first Federal building ever built in Richmond is seen below.   This building provided offices for Confederate Presiden...

  Once Virginia seceded, the Confederate government moved the capital from Montgomery, Alabama to Richmond, Virginia.  Richmond was the Sout...

  At the Woodrow Wilson Museum, Staunton, Virginia Woodrow Wilson returned from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 to be greeted by cheering...

  As a child, John Singleton Mosby was small, sickly and was often the target of bullying. He would respond by fighting back. During the co...

  If you have ever heard of the nation of “Fredonia”, you probably associate it with a mythical European state portrayed in the Marx Brother...

                                                                                                                   John S. Mosby Recollectio...

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...