Custer vs. Crazy Horse: The Winning of the West (TRIH ep 447, part 2)
1864 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History (hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook) follows George Armstrong Custer's career in the immediate post–Civil War years. The hosts examine his personality and politics — his appetite for fame, social climbing in New York, and recurring involvement in partisan politics during Reconstruction — and how those traits affected his military career.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1864
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)