Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth By Terry Alford Oxford University Press […]
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‘Lick ’em to-morrow, though’: First Day at the Battle of Shiloh
Soldiers on both sides expected the Federals to retreat after the first day at […]
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It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Civil War
The National Park Service used the sesquicentennial to shed new light on an old […]
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Texas two-step at Palmito Ranch
Colonel John S. “Rip” Ford didn’t like what he saw. A line of blue […]
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War’s Bitter End
After a four-year bloodbath, the guns finally fell silent. Now what? The Civil War […]
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Southern women and their new normal
On the afternoon of April 9, 1865, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. […]
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Letter From Wild West – April 2017
The unlikely friendship of soft-spoken frontiersman Tom Jeffords and imposing Apache Chief Cochise fascinated generations of Americans
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Field Notes- America’s Civil War May 2015
Federal legislation protects land at Gettysburg, Vicksburg Two separate pieces of federal legislation passed […]
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Rip Ford’s Risky Ranger Raid
Flouting Texas’ jurisdiction, John Salmon ‘Rip’ Ford’s Rangers and their Indian allies rode into the heart of Comancheria in the spring of 1858
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Book Review: American Endurance / Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893 and the Vanishing Wild West
Richard Serrano recounts the Great Cowboy Race of 1893—a 1,000-mile horseback odyssey from small-town Nebraska to big-city Chicago.