THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE EXODUS

                Dull Knife and his band of Northern Cheyenne had participated in the Battle of the Greasy Grass (Little Big Horn), but they did not go on the run after the defeat of Custer.  Big mistake.  That winter of 1876, his village was surprised by vengeance-minded soldiers and badly beaten.  Read more…

JEAN LAFITTE

                Jean Lafitte was born around 1780.  Little is known of his childhood.  When he was in his twenties, he began a life of crime, specifically piracy.  He established a warehouse in New Orleans where he would sell goods taken by his older brother Pierre.  Pierre was a pirate in Read more…

THE HANGOVER RAID

                On Dec. 16, 1944, Hitler launched his massive offensive in the Ardennes Forest.  He committed his best remaining ground forces in the west to the attack.  It took the Americans by surprise and created a bulge in the line that gave the battle its name.  The tanks and infantry Read more…

THE ROSEWOOD MASSACRE

                The recent 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre has brought a lot of coverage of this forgotten event.  You would assume it will now be covered in high school classrooms in the future.  But that is not guaranteed.  A similar incident that occurred two years later and was Read more…