RealClearHistory June 5, 2026 Archives

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How Americans Celebrated the Centennial in 1876

Lesley Kennedy HISTORY

The Revolutionary War's Chief Villain is Being Rehabilitated

Laurie Kellman AP

The Truth Behind WWII’s Philadelphia Experiment

Shannon Corbeil Military.com

How Juan Pujol Garcia (a.k.a. "Garbo") Made D-Day Happen

Peter Kross WHN

12 of History’s Most Devastating Civil Wars

Simeon Netchev World History Encyclopedia

The Enduring Mystery of a Couple’s World War II Letters

Joe Heim WaPo

Navy Researchers Find Wreck of World War II Sub

Nicholas Slayton Task & Purpose

A New Exhibit Tells the Story of Revolutionary Women

Meilan Solly Smithsonian

Why 1776 Was Both Radical and Conservative

Yuval Levin The Coolidge Review

The Long History of Gerrymandering in American Politics

Jerald Stubbs RCH

The Biggest and Best Upsets the World Cup Has Ever Seen

Staff The Guardian

Remembering Nepal's Royal Massacre

Thomas Bell History Today

The Terrifying First Round-the-World Balloon Flight

Jonathan Wright HistoryExtra

UK and Portugal: The Original Special Relationship

Alastair Paynter Substack

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

RealClearHistory Podcasts

The World Cup Was Created to Bring World Peace

Throughline NPR

How the Spanish-American War Led to American Expansionism

In Our Time BBC

Everyday Military Life in the American Revolution

Staff Ben Franklin's World

The Ten-Cent Beer Night Riot

Staff History Daily

RealClearHistory History in the Media

The American Revolution Was Also Fought in India and Spain

Jon Meacham NYT

Soviet Cosmonauts, Star City and the Race to the Moon

Hunter Ingram Smithsonian

The Creator of James Bond Was Also a Spy

Ryan Thomas LaBee Military.com

Inside the Lives of the Last Jews in Berlin

Clare McHugh Washington Post