RealClearHistory August 12, 2026 Archives

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A Physicist's Inside Account of Nagasaki's Atomic Bombing

Fiona Macdonald BBC

One Man's Journey From Bomber Pilot to Prisoner of War

Amy Wannemacher WHN

A Lost Civilization is Rewriting China’s Origin Story

Jonathan Cheng WSJ

Uncovering a Forgotten Massacre in the Philippines

Michael G. Vann Jacobin

The Reagan-Era Roots of Trump's Battle Against the FTC

Thomas Barnico Substack

The Expedition that Paved the Way to the South Pole

Ed Armston-Sheret Conversation

The Man Who Rediscovered Troy—and Then Destroyed It

Sam Kean NatGeo

WWII Soldiers and Motorbike Recovered After 80 Years

Franziska Müller Euro News

Warlords of Greece: Warfare in Homer’s World

Josho Brouwers War on the Rocks

The Man Who Stopped Harry Truman

Garland S. Tucker III The Coolidge Review

The Aztec Calendar and How it Worked

Dave Roos HISTORY

The Amateur Archivists Trying to Save History in National Parks

Staff Guardian

The American Dream on the Danube

Anna Smith Lacey RealClearHistory

A Box of Love Letters Showed Up. Who Wrote Them?

Ellen Wexler Smithsonian

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News