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 ...

Take a tall, thin young man, who smokes a pipe, which he tends to leave places absentmindedly, who runs to tweedy attire, who wears glasses. Come now, class, what is this young man going to be? Right, ...

Americans were in shock in early July 1876. It wasn’t supposed to have been that way. It was the country’s centennial, after all, a time for a national party. Instead, stunning news came from the ...

On June 25th, 1876, the historic Battle of Little Bighorn unfolded, marking the final ride of General George Armstrong Custer. Facing an overwhelming force of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors, Custer and ...

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 ...

The passing of time and politics have played a misleading hand in the retelling and the romanticizing of many events from our history, including Custer’s Last Stand. There were no sabers, there were ...

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 ...

VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) - A University of South Dakota anthropology professor's book challenging the image of a heroic Lt. Col. George Custer fighting American Indian warriors on a Montana battlefield ...

‘Custer’s Last Stand,’ an 1899 oil-on-canvas painting by Edgar Samuel Paxson, depicts the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana from the point of view of the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry Regiment, led by Lt.