This officer boasted that with 80 men he would "ride through the Sioux nation." He didn’t.
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Abolitionists Grapple With Pro-Slavery Violence
The history of abolitionists in America dates back to colonial times.
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Henry “Box” Brown: A Slave Signed, Sealed and Delivered
Slave Henry Brown mails himself to freedom.
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Boyer vs. Tefertiller: Penslingers Face off over Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp biographers Glenn Boyer and Casey Tefertiller square off about Earp, their respective research and claims made about one another’s scholarship.
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Daily Quiz for August 10, 2009
The castle from which a cow was catapulted in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail is in this country
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Omaha Epiphany
A trip to Omaha Beach with the West Point cadets leads to an insight about the art of command.
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The Emperor’s Tipping Point: Napoleon at Eylau Preview
Forget Waterloo. Napoleon’s decline was clearly signaled by his failures at the Battle of Eylau eight years earlier.
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Daily Quiz for August 9, 2009
As part of the Georgia home guard, this man fought against Gen. W. T. Sherman’s troops in the Civil War, but by 1867 he was Attorney General of the United States.
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Charles Schreyvogel – Art of the West
Charles Schreyvogel drew public acclaim, and scorn from contemporary artist Frederic Remington, for his Western scenes, painted from his rooftop studio in Hoboken, N.J.
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Interview: Louis Kraft / Western Author-Playwright
Author/Playwright Louis Kraft turns his attention to Indian agent Ned Wynkoop, portraying him onstage.