Custer's Last Stand: Death in the Black Hills (TRIH ep 450, part 5)
1874 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue their multi-episode narrative on George Armstrong Custer and the Plains Indian wars. They discuss Custer's post‑Civil War drift — gambling, womanizing, and attempts at mining and social climbing — and his evolving worldview shaped by contemporary scientific ideas.
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Around 1874
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Scramble for Africa (1881)
- German unification (1871)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)