Warrior, Hero, Villain or Fool? 150 Years of Reassessing Custer

Produced by Sean Catangui, Rebecca Lieberman and Maridelis Morales Rosado.

Images: “Custer’s Last Raid,” F. Otto Becker, Milwaukee Lithographic Engraving Company via National Museum of American History; George Armstrong Custer via George L. Andrews/CORBIS/Corbis/Getty Images; Bismarck Tribune Extra via State Historical Society of North Dakota; “A Death Sonnet for Custer,” via The La Harper; “Custer’s Last Rally,” via Amon Carter Museum of American Art; “The Last Stand,” Frederic Remington via Woolaroc Museum; “Custer’s Last Stand,” Edgar Samuel Paxson via Jacksonville State University; “Custer’s War,” Tȟatȟáŋka Waŋžíla (Henry Oscar One Bull) via Minneapolis Institute of Art; “Custer’s Last Stand as Presented By Buffalo Bill’s Wild West,” via Buffalo Bill Museum; “Custer’s Last Fight,” via 101-Bison and New York Motion Picture; “They Died With Their Boots On,” via Warner Bros.; “Custer’s Last Fight: Massacre at Little Big Horn,” via Avon Comics (cover and interior); “Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian” via Columbia Records/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; “The Weather Underground,” via ABC News; “Custer & 20,000 Indians,” Fritz Scholder via The Brinton Museum; “Here fell Custer,” Eric Von Schmidt via Minglewood Press; “Little Big Man,” via Cinema Center Films; “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian,” via FOX; “Spirit Warrior,” via Steven Clevenger/Corbis/Getty Images; “The Battle of the Little Bighorn,” via The Metropolitan Museum of Art.