Legacy

New Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn edited by Charles E. Rankin

In this collection of essays from the 1994 Little Bighorn Legacy Symposium, an outstanding array of scholars discuss the battle's context, historical significance, and cultural impacts from both white and Native American perspectives. Contributors include Richard A. Fox, Jr., Paul Andrew Hutton, Edward T. Linenthal, and Richard S. Slotkin. Essays examine such diverse topics as the environmental context of the northern plains, new archaeological discoveries about the battle, how Custer has been portrayed in art and the movies, and the battle's symbolic legacy.