It began as an assignment for one of his classes at the University of Cincinnati. “We had to come up with a six-word phrase to use in our life,” Ryan Custer said. “Normally, I’d just have written ...

It's general knowledge that when Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer was killed battling more than 2,000 Indians on that grassy slope overlooking the Little Bighorn River in Montana on June 25, 1876, ...

It began as an assignment for one of his classes at the University of Cincinnati. “We had to come up with a six-word phrase to use in our life,” Ryan Custer said. “Normally, I’d just have written ...

As a soldier, General Ulysses S. Grant had depended upon the able assistance of Ely S. Parker, a Seneca Indian. As president, Grant tried with little success to ensure peaceful relations with Native ...

In the 19th century, over 250,000 Native Americans lived in the Great Plains -- between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains. After the Civil War, however, the U.S. government began to increasingly ...

Preparations. Through June 12 (Philip H. Sheridan to George W. Cass ; W. Milnor Roberts to Cass ; Roberts to Thomas L. Rosser and Cass ; Montgomery Meigs to his family ; Rosser's diary, May 22-June 12 ...

Ken Burns likes to imagine Loretta Lynn undressing in the backseat of a car. But in a purely historical context. Before she became a country-music icon, the Kentucky-born Lynn spent time in Washington ...