This Day in History: Dec. 26, 1862 — Most commonly revered as the United States President who freed the slaves, Abraham Lincoln is known for something different in Indian Country.

The riders, some three dozen of them, circled the blazing fire. The smell of burnt sage hung in the winter air as the sounds of clopping horse hooves matched a ceremonial drumbeat. The riders had ...

The flags of war like storm-birds fly, The charging trumpets blow; Yet rolls no thunder in the sky, No earthquake strives below. And, calm and patient, Nature keeps Her ...

Throughout written history weather events have influenced military outcomes. Scholars can point to Napoleon’s disastrous 1812 ...

“A great many, who have spent their lives in cities, and have never chanced to come into the country at this season, have never seen this, the flower, or rather the ripe fruit, of the year ...

At the height of a measles pandemic in 1862, a genre of ukiyo-e woodblock prints known as “hashika-e” (literally, measles pictures) disseminated a mountain of gossip and hearsay. One bit of ...

From there, participants embarked on an hours-long relay run to what is now Reconciliation Park in Mankato, where, on Dec. 26, 1862, 38 Dakota men were hanged in the largest single-day mass ...