George Armstrong Custer, shown in an 1859 photograph as a 19-year-old West Point cadet in his summer furlough uniform, and in a later undated photo, will be the subject of a talk by biographer T.J.

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 ...

Nearly 150 years after his death in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer remains one of the most controversial figures in American history. That controversy — which makes Custer a ...

Berkeley author T.J. Stiles won his second Pulitzer Prize for biography this week for his most recent book, Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, about General George Custer, the ...

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 ...

The Native American tribes had pet names for George Armstrong Custer. The Crow called him Child of the Morning Star, the Cheyenne labeled him Yellow Hair, but the Lakota Sioux referred to him as Long ...

T.J. Stiles, whose 2009 biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, has now published a full-scale life of George Armstrong Custer, the flamboyant officer who ...

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 ...

I was about 10 when I read Quentin Reynolds’ YA biography “Custer’s Last Stand” (1951), a perfect book for an Oklahoma boy like me intoxicated by the surfeit of cowboy shows on 1950s TV. Reynolds ...

“The Sioux say this officer was the bravest man they had ever fought.” — Sioux Chief Red Horse, 1881. “History is not history unless it is the truth.” — Abraham Lincoln, 1856. We’ve all heard the ...