The Michigan Democratic Party could call Saturday for the removal of a monument in Monroe that honors Gen. George Custer, according to a resolution that labels the statue "a painful public reminder of ...
Battle Creek, Michigan, is preparing for its 53rd Annual Armed Forces Day Observance on Friday, May 15, and it is as relevant today as it was when the event was established 60 years ago by then ...
It’s hard to find a public figure in American history more divisive than the dashing Civil War hero and Plains Indian fighter George Armstrong Custer. To some, he was a romantic Western hero, to ...
Mark Higbee, professor of history at Eastern Michigan University, discussed Gen. George Armstrong Custer Wednesday afternoon. The program was offered virtually by Monroe County Community College, as ...
The bronze sculpture of George Armstrong Custer — a towering figure in Monroe’s central park — gazes regally from astride a horse, celebrating the town’s most famous former resident as a Civil War ...
Custer, Michigan, population around four hundred, would not exist today, except for an entrepreneur, Joseph Sanders. Joe was born in 1901, grew up in Custer when the main street was closely aligned ...