To get a sense of just how divisive George Armstrong Custer was during his short life, one need only consult a couple of the Union Army officer’s post-Civil War press clippings. In 1866, The New York ...

Only days before the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Union army cavalry Lt. George A. Custer dug a black velveteen jacket out of his bags. The coat was double-breasted — the kind generals wore — and ...

"Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America," by T.J. Stiles, Alfred A. Knopf, 608 pages, $30 He was a West Point graduate, a Civil War hero, receiving his general's stars at an ...

Mar. 29—The woman behind Gen. George Armstrong Custer spent her life trying to rehabilitate her husband's image because she deeply loved him, said historian Bob Smith, curator of the First Infantry ...

T.J. Stiles' biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt earned the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. Steve Inskeep talks with Stiles about his new book, Custer's Trials, on George Armstrong Custer. And I ...

Like everything else about General George Custer, his martyrdom was shrouded in controversy and contradictions. The final act of his larger-than-life career played out on a grand stage with a ...