It's hard to know where to start when describing Jeremy Poolman's new book, "A Wounded Thing Must Hide." Subtitled "In Search of Libbie Custer," Poolman's first foray into nonfiction is an utterly ...

Mar. 29—The woman behind Gen. George Armstrong Custer spent her life trying to rehabilitate her husband's image because she deeply loved him, said historian Bob Smith, curator of the First Infantry ...

Libbie Custer knew her favorite laundress Mrs. Nash was also an excellent baker, midwife, and seamstress. What Col. George Custer's wife did not know was that this multitalented woman was really a man ...

What Libbie Custer knew was that Mrs. Nash was her favorite laundress and also an excellent baker, midwife, and seamstress. What Lt. Col. George A. Custer’s wife did not know was that this ...

Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic Classicist Kuin (Lucian’s Laughing Gods) offers a enthralling intellectual history of Diogenes, the founder of Cynicism ...

Bloomsbury. 306 pp. $24.95 Biographers always reveal something of themselves in choice of subject. Many cloak themselves in a protective armor of scholarship (and its frequent cousin, turgid writing), ...