IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Photograph of Colonel Thomas Ward ...

Today is Saturday, June 25, the 176th day of 2022. There are 189 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. Colonel George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped ...

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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Nathaniel Philbrick recounts the Battle of Little Bighorn, between the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry led by Lt. Col. George Custer and several of the ...

This is part one of a serialization from "Sweeping Across America; Broome County Citizens in American History," by this writer. His hope and dreams for a bright future were led down the path toward ...

KALIDA — Edward Settle Godfrey was born in Putnam County in 1843 and died 88 and a half years later in Cookstown, New Jersey. For many of the years in between he was an officer in the U.S. 7th Cavalry ...

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 ...

One man is directly related to two popular trivia questions: "Name the only survivor of Col. George Armstrong Custer's command at the Battle of the Little Big Horn" and "During the time of Custer, ...

Custer’s Last Stand is a staple of American history. The tragic tale of the massacre of the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn is most closely associated with Gen. George Custer, ...

Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer has been reinstated and assigned to command the 7th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hays. The regiment has become a ragtag outfit of thieves and ruffians and Custer must whip ...