Indian Territory did not have much of an impact on the Civil War, but the Civil War had a tremendous impact on Indian Territory. The historian LeRoy Fischer has said that no area of the country ...

The average person is quite surprised that Civil War battles were fought here in Oklahoma, based, I suppose, on the assumption that as Oklahoma did not become a state until 1907 and, during the ...

A former Illinois congressman who studied law and was admitted to the bar while recuperating from a wound suffered in the Civil War became one of the first judges for Indian Territory.

The average person is quite surprised that Civil War battles were fought here in Oklahoma, based, I suppose, on the assumption that as Oklahoma did not become a state until 1907, and during the ...

The last Confederate troops to surrender in the Civil War were Native American — here’s how they ended up fighting for the South. ... in Indian Territory, in what is now Oklahoma.

A MAGA civil war has emerged, pitting Indian-Americans against far-right Groypers over immigration, diversity, and identity. Once marginal in politics, Indian Americans have gained prominence ...

The war that began on April 12, 1861, cost hundreds of thousands of lives and changed the course of a nation. From John Brown to Quantrill’s Raid, Kansas and Kansans played key roles.

In the years following independence, the newly-formed United States of America look westward for their expansion, hoping to conquer territory and sell off land to eager European settlers. Its ...

More on the book "Montana Territory and the Civil War" is priced at $19.99 and is available at many bookstores and gift shops in Montana, as well as on Amazon and the Barnes & Noble website.

Map of Indian Territory and Oklahoma, U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1890. Universal History Archive/Getty Images. ... When southern states seceded, causing a Civil War in the United States, ...

SAND SPRINGS, Oklahoma -- This year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War. You probably knew that already. Maybe you didn't know the first battle in Indian ...

I n recent weeks, as Americans across the country have engaged in debates about how the Civil War period is publicly commemorated, a quieter battle over a related question was finally put to rest ...