George Armstrong Custer: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Biographies include Robert M. Utley, Cavalier in Buckskin rev. ed. (2001); Jeffrey D. Wert, Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer (1996); and Stephen E. Ambrose, Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors (1975, reprinted 1996). Louise Barnett, Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer (1996, reprinted 2006), examines Custer’s life and legend. The Battle of the Little Bighorn is analyzed in Nathaniel Philbrick, The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (2010); John S. Gray, Custer’s Last Campaign (1991); and James Welch and Paul Stekler, Killing Custer (1994, reprinted 2007). Paul Andrew Hutton (ed.), The Custer Reader (1992), collects essays by historians and contemporaries of Custer.
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Gregory J.W. Urwin
Gregory J. W. Urwin is a professor of history at Temple University and current president of the Society for Military History. He holds his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and taught in Kansas and Arkansas before moving to Temple in 1999. Urwin specializes in U.S. and British military history, particularly the American War of Independence, American Civil War, and World War II. He is now researching a social history of the 1781 British invasions of Virginia. The author or editor of nine books and numerous articles, Urwin has won the General Wallace M. Greene, Jr., Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and the Harold L. Peterson Award from the Eastern National Park and Monuments Association.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Invalidated site: Michigan Tech - Military History of the Upper Great Lakes - Biography of General George A. Custer. | Oct 21, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Warfare History Network - Could Custer have been saved at Little Bighorn? | Aug 28, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jun 21, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Bill of Rights Institute - George Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. | May 07, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - To Black Kettle's Village with Custer (1868). | Apr 17, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Dec 01, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nebraska State Historical Society - The Changing Image of George Armstrong Custer (PDF). | Jun 15, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Essential Civil War Curriculum - George Armstrong Custer. | Apr 19, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - George Armstrong Custer. | Feb 06, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 26, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Michigan Tech - Military History of the Upper Great Lakes - Biography of General George A. Custer. | Feb 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Legends of America - George Armstrong Custer � Dying at the Little Bighorn. | Nov 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - George Armstrong Custer. | May 25, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: American History Central - George Armstrong Custer. | Apr 01, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: American History Central - George Armstrong Custer - Facts. | Jun 30, 2022 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Jan 05, 2021 | ||
| Media added. | May 10, 2017 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Feb 13, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War - Biography of George Armstrong Custer. | Jan 15, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online - Biography of George Armstrong Custer. | Jan 15, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Park Service - Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument - Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. | Jan 15, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society - Biography of George Armstrong Custer. | Jan 15, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Battlefield Trust - Biography of George Armstrong Custer. | Jan 15, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Electric Scotland - Biography of George Armstrong Custer. | Jul 16, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Biography of George Custer. | Jul 16, 2013 | ||
| Added photograph. | Apr 12, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - New Perspectives on The West - Biography of George Armstrong Custer. | Oct 15, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Military History Encyclopedia on the Web - George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876). | Oct 15, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of George Custer. | Oct 15, 2007 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 11, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | May 27, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Feb 01, 1999 |
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