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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

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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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 Wednesday

A Theory About the 1924 Presidential Election
Editors, Coolidge Review
Chips the War Dog: WWII's Most Decorated K-9
Allen Frazier, Military.com
A Second Sumter: The Struggle for Pensacola
Eric Niderost, Warfare History Network
The WWII General Who Outwitted His Arch-Rival
Greg McKevitt, BBC
War Powers and Congress: From the Revolution to Iran
James Diddams, Providence
How Dante’s Inferno Was a Fiery Act of Political Payback
Jack Tamisiea, HISTORY
The African Colony that Inspired 'Heart of Darkness'
Mark Cartwright, WHE
What Paul Revere's Artwork Tell Us About Colonial America
Patrick Hastings, LOC
How Rum Fuelled Canada’s Early Economy
Allan Greer, The Conversation
The Story of the Battle of Hastings Needs an Update
Katie Hunt, CNN
Why Do Historians Think Taft Got Stuck in a Bathtub?
Howard Dorre, Smithsonian
Women Who Shaped the American Revolution
Tanya Roth, Saturday Evening Post
How Mahatma Gandhi Started a Nonviolent Revolution
Editors, NatGeo
Ancient Greek Reflections on Imperial Power
George Garnett, History Today
This Day in American History
Staff, Liberty Nation News

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

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 Wednesday

A Theory About the 1924 Presidential Election

Editors, Coolidge Review

What really explains Coolidge’s landslide victory Read More

Chips the War Dog: WWII's Most Decorated K-9

Allen Frazier, Military.com

A family pet charged an enemy machine gun nest during the invasion of Sicily, earned military decorations and sparked a national debate over... Read More

A Second Sumter: The Struggle for Pensacola

Eric Niderost, Warfare History Network

Pensacola, Florida, with its sheltered harbor and busy naval yard, was a prize target for Southern secessionists. All that stood in their way... Read More

The WWII General Who Outwitted His Arch-Rival

Greg McKevitt, BBC

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery died 50 years ago. In 1968, he told the BBC about the Battle of El Alamein, and his German counterpart Erwin... Read More

War Powers and Congress: From the Revolution to Iran

James Diddams, Providence

While President Trump’s decision to attack Iran has prompted renewed debates over executive war-making power, arguments about the proper... Read More

How Dante’s Inferno Was a Fiery Act of Political Payback

Jack Tamisiea, HISTORY

The poet placed his real-life enemies in the dark depths of the underworld. Read More

The African Colony that Inspired 'Heart of Darkness'

Mark Cartwright, WHE

Belgian Congo was a colony of Belgium from 1908 until 1960. Prior to that, the region had been the Congo Free State (created in 1885), which... Read More

What Paul Revere's Artwork Tell Us About Colonial America

Patrick Hastings, LOC

Most Americans are familiar with Paul Revere's legendary midnight ride, but did you know that he was a skilled silversmith who also engraved... Read More

How Rum Fuelled Canada’s Early Economy

Allan Greer, The Conversation

Long before today’s decline in alcohol consumption, rum played a central role in Canada’s economy, shaping labour relations in the... Read More

The Story of the Battle of Hastings Needs an Update

Katie Hunt, CNN

The tragic tale of Harold, the king who lost England to William the Conqueror in an infamous battle, still looms large in British popular... Read More

Why Do Historians Think Taft Got Stuck in a Bathtub?

Howard Dorre, Smithsonian

A long-overlooked 1929 account contains the earliest known reference to the anecdote, suggesting that the 27th president found himself... Read More

Women Who Shaped the American Revolution

Tanya Roth, Saturday Evening Post

Before and during the Revolutionary War, women’s political engagement rarely took the form of speeches in Philadelphia or signatures on... Read More

How Mahatma Gandhi Started a Nonviolent Revolution

Editors, NatGeo

As a young lawyer, Mohandas Gandhi wasn’t especially interested in politics—until 1894, when a law set out to disenfranchise Indians in... Read More

Ancient Greek Reflections on Imperial Power

George Garnett, History Today

Ancient Greek reflections on imperial power have unsettling resonance in the geopolitics of Donald Trump. 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

What Was Antisemitism Like in the Ancient World?

Jerald Stubbs, RealClearHistory

Writing about 100 A.D. in his Histories, the Roman historian Tacitus describes the origin of the Jews in Palestine. Tacitus was focused on the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., the final act in Rome's war to end the Jewish revolt that had begun four years earlier. But he digresses to provide a brief history of the Jews. Tacitus' description of the Jews is hostile. It's also unreliable, whi... Read More

more from Ancient History

Military History

Chips the War Dog: WWII's Most Decorated K-9

Allen Frazier, Military.com

A family pet charged an enemy machine gun nest during the invasion of Sicily, earned military decorations and sparked a national debate over whether a dog deserves a medal.... 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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