To get a sense of just how divisive George Armstrong Custer was during his short life, one need only consult a couple of the Union Army officer’s post-Civil War press clippings. In 1866, The New York ...

Larry McMurtry, author of ‘Lonesome Dove,’ captures one of the West’s greatest villains, General Custer, in a new biography. He spoke to Nick Romeo about why short lives are better and why the West’s ...

Only days before the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Union army cavalry Lt. George A. Custer dug a black velveteen jacket out of his bags. The coat was double-breasted — the kind generals wore — and ...

My favorite ice cream parlor growing up on the South Jersey shore was called “Custard’s Last Stand,” whose logo featured a cartoonish George Armstrong Custer brandishing two pistols in the heat of ...

On Tuesday at 7 p.m., Montana viewers will get a first look at a new biography of Lt. Col. George A. Custer on “American Experience,” an acclaimed history series produced for PBS. The premiere of ...

Here’s another Custer biography, purportedly of the “real” man, as if other writers haven’t tried to capture that elusive “real” creature—but despite its redundancies, Robbins delivers a book about as ...

It's no riddle that Gen. Ulysses Grant is the man buried in Grant's Tomb. But there is a mystery behind who's buried in the grave of the man Grant sent to fight the Indians. It may not be Gen. George ...

T.J. Stiles' biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt earned the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. Steve Inskeep talks with Stiles about his new book, Custer's Trials, on George Armstrong Custer. And I ...