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Of the many first-person accounts of the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre, the report by Sioux author and physician Charles A. Eastman (also known as Ohiyesa, l. 1858-1939) is among the best-known. Eastman describes his experiences...

Charles A. Eastman's biography of Crazy Horse (l. c. 1840-1877) is among the most significant sources on the great Sioux war chief, as Eastman drew on accounts of those who had known and fought alongside him in writing it. The work differs...

A 1902 painting by Juan Lepiani showing the conquistador Francisco Pizarro on Isla del Gallo on his second expedition to Peru in 1527. Recalled by the governor of Cuba, Pizarro ignored his orders and asked his men who would volunteer to proceed...

Casualties at Shiloh, watercolour by Adolph Metzner, 1862. Adolph Metzner (1834-1918) was a German-born immigrant to the United States who enlisted in the Union army soon after the American Civil War broke out, where he would serve three...

Evacuation in Britain during the Second World War amounted to the biggest mass movement of people in British history, with around 4 million people leaving their homes to escape the air raids of the Blitz. Many children didn't know where they...

Part II The Battle of the Washita may have ended by sunset on November 27th, 1868, but there was much more to this fight than one deadly day. Custer and the Seventh Cavalry would take 53 Cheyenne women and children captive. This campaign...