RealClearHistory April 3, 2026 Archives

RealClearHistory AM Update

How A Cigarette Addiction Playbook Is Being Used Again

A. H. Childs Substack

How Did April Fools’ Day Begin? The Mysterious Origins

Erin Blakemore NatGeo

April Fools’ Day and Memorable Hoaxes From the Past

Rick Kogan Chicago Tribune

‘The Cult of Cesar’: Inside the Compound Led by Cesar Chavez

Staff NYT

Did Benjamin Franklin Really Invent Daylight Saving Time?

Paul Lenz Histories

How Apple's 50-Year Odyssey Redefined Comeback Stories

Michael Liedtke AP

The Serial Killer Unmasked By His Own Writing

Greg McKevitt BBC Culture

What Did Our Forebears Do During the Nazi Era?

Suzanne Cords Deutsche Welle

Why Lincoln Rejected Triumph at Gettysburg

Andrew F. Lang The Coolidge Review

Why Did Europe's Powers Clash Over Spain's Empty Throne?

Harrison W. Mark WHE

Destroying the 'Pearl of the Orient': Liberation of Manila

David H. Lippman WHN

The Jesters of the Tudor Court

Phillipa Vincent-Connolly History Today

The World’s Oldest Holidays

Lesley Kennedy History

Can You Pass this Ancient Civilizations Quiz?

Jennifer McPhee BuzzFeed

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

RealClearHistory Podcasts

Why Are We Obsessed with Gettysburg?

Boom Goes the History YouTube

What the Banana Tells Us About American History

Throughline NPR

A History of the Telephone: 150th Anniversary Special

You're Dead To Me BBC News

Let’s All Go to the World’s Fair

Stuff You Should Know SYSK

RealClearHistory History in the Media

Road-Tripping With a Historian Through America’s Past

Jennifer Szalai NYT

The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History

Paul Moore History Today

The True Story That Inspired 'The King and I'

Smithsonian

Roger Casement and the Birth of the IRA

Oliver Bullough The Guardian