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Sitting Bull and the battle that shattered Custer's army
On June 25, 1876, George Armstrong Custer rode into legend—and oblivion. During this military engagement, all 210 soldiers ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. During the eighteen hundreds, the federal government forced American Indians to live on lands called ...
SURVIVOR: While Kanipe may not have been in battle with Custer, he carried the general's final order. Sergeant Daniel A. Kanipe, a native of McDowell County and resident of Marion, was a member of Gen ...
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 ...
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