The West Texas frontier-the area encompassing the region stretching from Fort Worth to the Caproc...

The Civil War continues to fascinate historians and general readers. Contemporary Civil War schol...

Buoyed by the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, historians began reevaluating previou...

General Maxey, dignified, articulate, and confident, arrives in Indian Territory in 1863 to assum...

Contains twelve articles which depict the basic themes and topics of the black American experienc...

The Thurber coal district sprang to life in the late 1880s in northern Erath County, Texas, some ...

A Civil War hero, victorious Indian fighter and eventual madman, General Ranald S. Mackenzie's fa...

Contemporary Civil War scholarship has brought to light the important roles certain ethnic groups...

The lonely chimneys of Fort Phantom Hill in Jones County have given many visitors silent testimon...

Naturally self-effacing and deferential, Captain John ReynoldsHughes is not as famous today as hi...

In the fall of 1864 after his triumphant capture of Atlanta, Union Gen. William T. Sherman mobili...

Early 1862, Union forces under Major General Samuel R. Curtis drive Confederate forces led by Bri...