In 1937, George Conrad, Jr. was interviewed by the WPA's Federal Writer's Project. Born in slavery on February 23, 1860 at Connversville,...

Every Veteran's Day - aka Armistice Day - I like to post about a Great War (WWI) veteran because these men hoped that this was the "war...

Tombstones, especially military ones, are great ways to trace history. And the history gathered from a tombstone needn't be from your...

This wire sent from Denison in April of 1873 reported an Indian raid that never happened. This article was cited widely in multiple...

Map of the Comanche and Apache nation in Oklahoma Territory in 1889, noting the location of “Old Camp Augur” on the Red River. Camp Augur...

Grant Foreman, one of Oklahoma’s first historians, appears in this photograph overlooking the ruins of Fort Towson in 1900. Although Fort...

The Red River in Louisiana experienced quite a bit of troubles in 1864. Nathan Banks, Union general, commandeered several gunboats to...

This photograph is possibly the last image of Comanche women in a traditional camp on the open prairie. Comanche women and child at...

Tombstones, especially military ones, are great ways to trace histrory. And the history from the tombstone needn’t be a family member,...

In the 1890s, these unnamed men from Montague County, Texas posed for a photograph after filing claims against the U.S. government for...

For the past few weeks, I’ve been reading S.C. Gwynne’s Empire of the Southern Moon, a bestseller that traces the history of the...