In April 1863, the men of the 4th California infantry were hungry. They were posted at Drum Barracks ...

During the fall and winter of 1861-1862, Clark and many other officials in Santa Fe attended at least eight séances.

In spring 1920, three men disembarked from a train in a high desert town. They had come on behalf of their friend Anson Mills, who had asked them to find his brother's grave.

How claims records and other documents serve as historical sources.

How could John Baylor have done such terrible thing and simultaneously be so effusively affectionate in his letters home?

For the past two months, I have been on a researching road trip through the West and Southwest—Colorado, ...

Nineteenth-century visual images, then, had power to move people to action, to convert ideas into policy.

For scholars of American history, letter-writing makes historical research possible.

American maps in the early 19th century.

Megan Kate Nelson, a historian of Civil War and the American Southwest, is behind the (Un)Catalogued Column for JSTOR Daily.