The Battle of the Little Bighorn, fought on June 25, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, pitted federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer (1839-76) against ...

CU Boulder historians Thomas Andrews and Noah Ramage argue that the seeds of Little Bighorn, which happened 150 years ago, were planted years before Custer’s defeat The Battle of the Little Bighorn ...

The Battle of Little Bighorn on June 25 and 26, 1876, lasted barely a full day, but it would become one of the most famous, controversial and mysterious military engagements in American history.

General Custer’s last stand was 150 years ago, but for descendants of the Battle of Little Bighorn’s two protagonists the fight continues. Retiree George Armstrong Custer IV, aged 70, is now facing ...

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 ...

When "Custer's Last Stand" premiered on PBS' "American Experience" on Jan. 17, Emory's Michael Elliott was the cultural historian who provided expert insight into how Gen. George Armstrong Custer ...

'We’re very good patriots. We’re here to save our country. We may be losers tonight, but we’re good patriots anyway' ...

Red Horse, “Untitled from the Red Horse Pictographic Account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn” (1881), graphite, colored pencil, and ink (NAA MS 2367A, 08571100, National Anthropological Archives, ...

Custer led little more than 200 men in an attack on the Sioux Chief Sitting Bull's camp on Montana's Little Bighorn River.