The Western History Association was organized in 1961 at Santa Fe, New Mexico. The mission of the WHA is the following: "The Western History Association strives to be a congenial home for the study ...

There have been revisionist histories of America and the American West at least since the middle of the sixteenth century, when the priest-historian Bartolomé de las Casas accused his fellow Spaniards ...

Richard Boone's series Have Gun — Will Travel has the best opening sequence in Western TV history.

Since the earliest days of Hollywood, Westerns have made gunslingers the cornerstone of cinema, from classic films like Shane to modern icons like The Hateful Eight and 3:10 to Yuma. Touching on the ...

At Harvard University today, professors who teach Western history are history. James Hankins, a specialist in Renaissance thought, was one of the last holdouts. Now Hankins, who has just published a ...

The author of a sweeping re-examination of Western history reveals the global reach of Greek and Roman antiquity Naoíse Mac Sweeney - Author, The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives Examples of ...