The Battle of Little Bighorn and Why It Never Ends ^14%

Washington Monthly - By Deanne Stillman - 6/25/2026, 9:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 20.1% - Negativity Bias 17.4% - Overconfidence Bias 12.3%

On June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer was killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. He went down with five of the 7th Cavalry’s 12 companies as Native American warriors surrounded him. Men in his unit killed their horses and mounted a defense from behind their dead companions. Two weeks later, on July 4, America... more