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Last of WWII Generation Fading Fast as Tributes Surge
Darius Radzius, Military.com
Why Lincoln Rejected Triumph at Gettysburg
Andrew F. Lang, The Coolidge Review
These 7 Foreigners Helped Win America's Revolution
Claire Barrett, Military Times
How a Late-Night Meeting Led to the Alaska Purchase
James Lindsay, CFR
A Story of Captivity and Torture in North Korea
Donald M. Bishop, Trinity Tripod
Lexington and Concord: The Shot Heard 'Round the World
Keli Holt, Substack
The Turbulent History of U.S.-Cuban Relations
Suzanne Cords, Deutsche Welle
The Vermehren Betrayal: The Defection of Anti-Nazi Activists
Tim Miller, WHN
8 Historic Stops Along Route 66 You Can Still Visit
Gregory Wakeman, HISTORY
The Victories and Defeats of Britain in World War I
Staff, History
How a Physician’s DIY Device Helped Americans Summit Everest
Eric Wills, NatGeo
Could Bringing Fish Traps Back Help Save the Salmon?
Zach Theiler, Smithsonian
Ten Facts About the Cradle of Civilization
Joshua J. Mark, WHE
A Q&A with a Historian
Elliott Drago, Jack Miller Center
This Day in American History
Staff, Liberty Nation News

Podcasts

Civilian Life in Revolutionary War Occupied Cities
Liz Covart, Ben Franklin's World
How Saudi Arabia Shaped Silicon Valley
Throughline, NPR
Columbian Exchange: Spreading Plants, Animals and Diseases
In Our Time, BBC
The Real Story Behind the ‘Remember the Ladies’ Letter
Ari Daniel, Smithsonian

History in the Media

Is the U.S. Constitution Doomed to Fail?
Claire Rydell Arcenas, NYT
Nuremberg, A First-Hand Account
Jasmine Guama, Aspects of History
Blackface: A Shameful History as American as Apple Pie
Dwight Garner, NYT
The Follies of Predicting War
Jo Inge Bekkevold, Foreign Policy

Censorship

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Essential Reading

May Aliens Be Deported Based on Their Speech?
The answer, oddly, isn't settled.
The COVID-era Smearing—and Resurrection—of Trump NIH Appointee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Bhattacharya’s path from health policy scholar to NIH director nominee is pockmarked with craters from missiles launched to destroy his scientific credibility by NIH leaders and their minions in academia.

In the News

Multimedia

Zuckerberg Ending Censorship on Facebook: "The Fact-Checkers Have Just Been Too Politically Biased"
John Kerry Tells WEF: Our First Amendment Stands As A Major Block Against Hammering Disinformation Out of Existence
House Committee Rips State Department Over Censorship

American Civics

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America’s Civic Values Outweigh its Divisions
Americans of all backgrounds overwhelmingly support a core set of legal and constitutional obligations.
David McCullough and the Study of History
One of the greatest weeks of my life was the week David McCullough came to teach a one-credit course at Hillsdale College in 2006.

In the News

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Why Civics Education Is America’s New Flashpoin
The Long Road to Juneteenth
Lincoln’s Prophetic Statesmanship with Edward Erler

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Touring The National Civil War Museum
Redeeming a Psychopath? Captain Edward Low
The Mystery of USS Cyclops
Richard The Lionheart And The Fall Of The Norman Dynasty

RealClearHistory Friday

Remembering the Mass Suicide of Heaven's Gate Cult
Virginia Chamlee, People
Forgotten Civil Rights Heroes, the Tougaloo Nine
Kayla Randall, Smithsonian
NATO's in Crisis. Can History Predict What Comes Next?
Sam Edwards, HistoryExtra
The Japanese Blitz on Bataan
Donald Young, Warfare History Network
Top 7 American WWII Generals, Ranked by Global Impact
Patrick Bodovitz, Collector
Searching for the Site of One of Christianity's Great Miracles
Parissa Djangi, NatGeo
Famous Prophecies: From Delphi to Nostradamus
Crystal Ponti, HISTORY
A Theory About the 1924 Presidential Election
Editors, Coolidge Review
Ancient Shipwreck May Rewrite the History of War
Rossella Tercatin, Times of Israel
America’s Confusing Relationship with Mutual Aid
Staff, Time
How Rome’s Desire for Silk Gave Birth to the Silk Roads
Irshad Abbasi, Vocal Media
A Female Pharaoh Gets a Reputational Makeover
Franz Lidz, NYT
The World's First Example of Historical Fiction
Joshua J. Mark, WHE
The Kingdom of Sicily's Medieval Uprising
Mathew Lyons, History Today
This Day in American History
Staff, Liberty Nation News

Last of WWII Generation Fading Fast as Tributes Surge

Darius Radzius, Military.com

A 102-year-old D-Day rescue swimmer’s story resurfaces as officials warn fewer than 50,000 WWII veterans remain. Read More

Why Lincoln Rejected Triumph at Gettysburg

Andrew F. Lang, The Coolidge Review

In victory, the president invoked a virtue both classical and theological Read More

These 7 Foreigners Helped Win America's Revolution

Claire Barrett, Military Times

George Washington had complained vociferously about the flood of questionable foreign volunteers. These men earned his respect — and... Read More

How a Late-Night Meeting Led to the Alaska Purchase

James Lindsay, CFR

A late-night knock on the door led to the second largest territorial acquisition in U.S. history. Read More

A Story of Captivity and Torture in North Korea

Donald M. Bishop, Trinity Tripod

When “Skip” Schumacher of Trinity’s Class of 1965 passed away in 2018, he was a retired banker and financial advisor in St.... Read More

Lexington and Concord: The Shot Heard 'Round the World

Keli Holt, Substack

The American War for Independence Begins Read More

The Turbulent History of U.S.-Cuban Relations

Suzanne Cords, Deutsche Welle

Donald Trump is not the first US president to have expansionist ambitions for Cuba. The US has a long history of trying to control the island... Read More

The Vermehren Betrayal: The Defection of Anti-Nazi Activists

Tim Miller, WHN

The defection of anti-Nazi activists led to horrific and unintended consequences. Read More

8 Historic Stops Along Route 66 You Can Still Visit

Gregory Wakeman, HISTORY

Route 66 attractions—like the Kan-O-Tex Service Station, the first McDonald’s site and the Meteor Crater—preserve the... Read More

The Victories and Defeats of Britain in World War I

Staff, History

Remembering Britain's Triumphs and Defeats During World War I Read More

How a Physician’s DIY Device Helped Americans Summit Everest

Eric Wills, NatGeo

The world’s most intrepid mountaineers breathed a little easier thanks to a young anesthesiologist’s chance encounter. Read More

Could Bringing Fish Traps Back Help Save the Salmon?

Zach Theiler, Smithsonian

A new experiment is testing the commercial success of fish traps in Washington and Oregon. Even as some conservationists embrace the... Read More

Ten Facts About the Cradle of Civilization

Joshua J. Mark, WHE

Mesopotamia is the ancient Greek name (meaning "the land between two rivers," the Tigris and Euphrates) for the region... Read More

A Q&A with a Historian

Elliott Drago, Jack Miller Center

JMC Resident Historian Elliott Drago sat down with JMC network member Blake Scott Ball to discuss his work on Charlie Brown’s lasting... Read More

This Day in American History

Staff, Liberty Nation News

The highs and the lows on the way to modern America. Read More

Podcasts

Civilian Life in Revolutionary War Occupied Cities

Liz Covart, Ben Franklin's World

Revolutionary War occupied cities transformed civilian life. Lauren Duval reveals how households negotiated quartering, martial law, and... Read More

How Saudi Arabia Shaped Silicon Valley

Throughline, NPR

Elon Musk. Donald Trump. Bill Gates. Sam Altman. Larry Ellison. Alex Karp. Jared Kushner. Mr. Beast. Jeffrey Epstein… Those are just a... Read More

Columbian Exchange: Spreading Plants, Animals and Diseases

In Our Time, BBC

The impact of the spread of animals, crops and diseases between continents after 1492 Read More

The Real Story Behind the ‘Remember the Ladies’ Letter

Ari Daniel, Smithsonian

Americans who turned the letter written by the future first lady into a suffragist rallying cry may have misunderstood her intentions Read More

History in the Media

Is the U.S. Constitution Doomed to Fail?

Claire Rydell Arcenas, NYT

Is the U.S. Constitution Doomed to Fail? Read More

Nuremberg, A First-Hand Account

Jasmine Guama, Aspects of History

An account of the Nuremberg Trials through the experiences of Howard Triest, a German-Jewish refugee and translator who confronted the... Read More

Blackface: A Shameful History as American as Apple Pie

Dwight Garner, NYT

A new book by Rhae Lynn Barnes examines how minstrelsy once occupied the center of the nation’s cultural life. Read More

The Follies of Predicting War

Jo Inge Bekkevold, Foreign Policy

A new book debates who wins wars and why. Read More

Censorship

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Essential Reading

May Aliens Be Deported Based on Their Speech?
The answer, oddly, isn't settled.
The COVID-era Smearing—and Resurrection—of Trump NIH Appointee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Bhattacharya’s path from health policy scholar to NIH director nominee is pockmarked with craters from missiles launched to destroy his scientific credibility by NIH leaders and their minions in academia.

In the News

Multimedia

Zuckerberg Ending Censorship on Facebook: "The Fact-Checkers Have Just Been Too Politically Biased"
John Kerry Tells WEF: Our First Amendment Stands As A Major Block Against Hammering Disinformation Out of Existence
House Committee Rips State Department Over Censorship

American Civics

Sponsored Curation Powered By:

Essential Reading

America’s Civic Values Outweigh its Divisions
Americans of all backgrounds overwhelmingly support a core set of legal and constitutional obligations.
David McCullough and the Study of History
One of the greatest weeks of my life was the week David McCullough came to teach a one-credit course at Hillsdale College in 2006.

In the News

Multimedia

Why Civics Education Is America’s New Flashpoin
The Long Road to Juneteenth
Lincoln’s Prophetic Statesmanship with Edward Erler

More From Real Clear

Touring The National Civil War Museum
Redeeming a Psychopath? Captain Edward Low
The Mystery of USS Cyclops
Richard The Lionheart And The Fall Of The Norman Dynasty

RealClearHistory Friday

Remembering the Mass Suicide of Heaven's Gate Cult

Virginia Chamlee, People

29 Years Ago, 39 Heaven's Gate Cult Members Died in Largest Mass Suicide in U.S. History. Here's What an Escapee Told PEOPLE in 1997 Read More

Forgotten Civil Rights Heroes, the Tougaloo Nine

Kayla Randall, Smithsonian

Known as the Tougaloo Nine, the demonstrators staged a sit-in that helped the NAACP push for the desegregation of public spaces in... Read More

NATO's in Crisis. Can History Predict What Comes Next?

Sam Edwards, HistoryExtra

As tensions build between the US and its long-term allies, historian Sam Edwards examines how the international military organisation has... Read More

The Japanese Blitz on Bataan

Donald Young, Warfare History Network

General Masaharu Homma employed air and ground assets in an unexpectedly rapid conquest of the Bataan Peninsula in the spring of 1942. Read More

Top 7 American WWII Generals, Ranked by Global Impact

Patrick Bodovitz, Collector

Discover the top seven American WWII generals ranked by their global impact, from George C. Marshall’s strategic vision to Eisenhower’s... Read More

Searching for the Site of One of Christianity's Great Miracles

Parissa Djangi, NatGeo

Biblical archaeologists have long looked for evidence of the site where the Virgin Mary is said to have learned she was with child. Here's... Read More

Famous Prophecies: From Delphi to Nostradamus

Crystal Ponti, HISTORY

For millennia, people have turned to seers for answers about the future. Read More

A Theory About the 1924 Presidential Election

Editors, Coolidge Review

What really explains Coolidge’s landslide victory Read More

Ancient Shipwreck May Rewrite the History of War

Rossella Tercatin, Times of Israel

The first evidence that iron was traded as a semifinished product has been found off the coast of northern Israel. It may have been intended... Read More

America’s Confusing Relationship with Mutual Aid

Staff, Time

Mutual aid is a foundational feature of American civic life. Why do our laws discourage it? Read More

How Rome’s Desire for Silk Gave Birth to the Silk Roads

Irshad Abbasi, Vocal Media

From luxury obsession to global trade network, the ancient routes that connected East and West reshaped history forever Read More

A Female Pharaoh Gets a Reputational Makeover

Franz Lidz, NYT

Wicked stepmother no longer... Read More

The World's First Example of Historical Fiction

Joshua J. Mark, WHE

Mesopotamian Naru Literature was a literary genre, first appearing around the 2nd millennium BCE, which featured a famous person... Read More

The Kingdom of Sicily's Medieval Uprising

Mathew Lyons, History Today

Two thousand were slain on the night of 30 March 1282 as the Kingdom of Sicily rose against the hated Charles of Anjou in the Sicilian... Read More

This Day in American History

Staff, Liberty Nation News

The highs and the lows on the way to modern America. Read More

Ancient History

The World's First Example of Historical Fiction

Joshua J. Mark, WHE

Mesopotamian Naru Literature was a literary genre, first appearing around the 2nd millennium BCE, which featured a famous person (usually a king) from history as the main character in a story that often concerned humanity's relationship with the gods. These stories became very popular and, in time, seem to have replaced the actual historical events in the minds of the people.... Read More

more from Ancient History

Military History

Top 7 American WWII Generals, Ranked by Global Impact

Patrick Bodovitz, Collector

Discover the top seven American WWII generals ranked by their global impact, from George C. Marshall’s strategic vision to Eisenhower’s postwar leadership.... Read More

more from Military History

American History

This Day in American History

Staff, Liberty Nation News

The highs and the lows on the way to modern America.... Read More

American History

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