Scratchboard Artist Kody Bundy
Bundy connects with horses and Western wildlife in her chosen medium
Painter at War: Winslow Homer’s Civil War Art
In 1861, Harper’s Weekly sent future master painter Winslow Homer to cover the Civil War. View our online gallery of some of his wartime artwork
The Mann Act: How a Law Meant to Help Women was Misused
An act meant to protect women wound up being a cudgel against common adulterers and men on the FBI's blacklist
American History Review: Muckraking Magazine Became a Reforming Juggernaut
Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America, by Stephanie Gorton
Book Review: Fire Mission!
Hunter recalls the dangers and the difficulties he experienced as an “FO” in Vietnam in his thoughtful memoir, Fire Mission! Fire Mission!
Book Review: The Life and Art of Joseph Henry Sharp
A look at the work of Joseph Henry Sharp, a founding member of the preeminent Taos Society of Artists
Book Review: An American Remembrance
This retrospective takes in the soft-focus realism of painter and Wild West contributor Bob Crofut
America’s Civil War Reviews: Close Quarters, Profound Trauma
The effects of imprisonment on the senses scarred prisoners for the rest of their lives
How Oscar Wilde Captured America’s Fancy
Oscar Wilde came to conquer American with an arched eyebrow and a saucy demeanor
How Politics Affect The Way We Teach the Past
Textbooks in Blue California explain history one way while red Texas takes an opposite tack
Book Review: Billy the Kid & Jesse James
Bill Markley's second volume in TwoDot's Legendary West series is an odd pairing but a worthwhile read
Johnny D. Boggs: He’s Earned His Spurs
The ever prolific Western writer has received a lifetime nod from Western Writers of America
Mian Situ: Far East to Far West
Born in southern China, the California artist chronicles the Chinese experience in the American West
Insight: How Hollywood Portrays Lincoln and His Commitment to Emancipation
Films from 2012 are relevant to continuing conceptions of the Civil War
George Caleb Bingham: Missouri’s Painter of Populism
When his home state was a political borderland, artist's most famous works celebrated frontier democracy
Book Review: Photographing Texas
Texas historian Richard Selcer presents images from "Fort Worth Five" photographer John Swartz and brothers
