Week of April 4, 2016 Archives

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Monday, April 4
MLK, RFK, LBJ and a Fateful Week
Evan Thomas, Newsweek
Truth Buried With James Earl Ray's Death
CBS News
The FBI and Martin Luther King Jr.
David Garrow, The Atlantic
Napoleon and Grand Strategy
Walter Russell Mead, American Interest
Tecumseh's 140-Year-Old Curse
Anthony Bergen, Dead Presidents
The Twin Births of NATO and Warsaw Pact
History Channel
The Execution of a Pakistani Strongman
Peter Constable, ADST
How City of Angels Lost Its Way
Joel Kotkin, City Journal
World Trade Center: Height of Ambition
Glanz & Lipton, NYT Mag
Fiery Collision Claims Senator and Schoolchildren
People
Tuesday, April 5
Russia's Enticing Offer to Reconquer China
Paul Tai, Hoover Digest
China Sees Chiang Kai-shek in New Light
Louise Watt, AP
McClellan Wastes Chance at Yorktown
John Rickard, History of War
The Story and Legacy of Pocahontas
Encyclopedia Virginia
Life and Death in Besieged Sarajevo
Barbara Demick, The Guardian
Finding Love in a Ruined City
Charlotte Eagar, Newsweek
Libya's Complicity in Berlin Disco Bombing
Nathalie Malinarich, BBC
South American Neighbors Fight War of the Pacific
Global Security
The Worst U.S. Mining Disasters
Mining Technology
Kurt Cobain's Death: Suicide or Murder?
Tom Grant, Cobain Case
Wednesday, April 6
Wilson Blunder Gave Birth to WWII
Sheldon Richman, Freedom Daily
Shiloh All But Seals South's Fate
Michael Lollar, Commercial-Appeal
Shattering Myths of Shiloh
Timothy Smith, America's Civil War
Richard the Lionheart: England's Warrior King
English Monarchs
Exhuming the Heart of Lionheart
Dan Jones, Daily Beast
Attila More Than Just Barbaric Hun
Europe Web
Mystique of Waffen-SS in Yugoslavia
Colin Heaton, World War II Mag
An Intelligence Failure in Vietnam
W.R. Baker, Military Intelligence
Modern Olympics' Tireless Founding Father
SR/Olympic Sports
Who Really Discovered North Pole?
Bruce Henderson, Smithsonian
Thursday, April 7
The Real Story of Battleship Yamato's Sinking
Grosse Pointe News
Debunking Myths About Thatcher
Claire Berlinski, Japan Times
Margaret Thatcher: A Cut Above the Rest
The Economist
Life in Baghdad Since the Fall of Saddam
Der Spiegel
The Lies and Libel About Iraq War
Robert Werdine, Times of Israel
Truman's Presidential Overreach
Robert Higgs, The Freeman
Oddity of Ike's 'Domino Theory'
Encyclopedia of New American Nation
Rwanda's Gruesome 100-Day Genocide
BBC News
Reporter's Regret on Rwanda
Bartholomaus Grill, Der Spiegel
End of Hank Aaron's Glorious Ordeal
Ron Fimrite, Sports Illustrated
Friday, April 8
Why the South Lost the Civil War
Carl Zebrowski, Civil War Times
A Gentlement's Agreement at Appomattox
Eyewitness to History
To Live and Die in the Trenches
Michael Duffy, First World War
Another Futile Battle on Western Front
John Rickard, History of War
German Forces' Foray into Norway
Robert Martensson, Norway 1940
Death March and Struggle for Justice
Kinue Tokudome, Japan Focus
Survivors' Tales from Bataan Death March
PBS
A Fiery But Miraculous Plane Crash
Sean Munger
Designing the Perfect Astronaut
Dennis Jamison, CDN
A Gilded Eighth Wonder of the World
Liz Smith, The Classical
Saturday, April 9
Why the Titanic Still Fascinates Us
Andrew Wilson, Smithsonian
Scenes From Titanic Maiden Voyage Departure
Titanic-Titanic
Queenstown: Titanic's Last Stop
Samuel Chi, RealClearHistory
Before Movie, Titanic Was a News Story
Christopher Sullivan, AP
The Legacy of South's 'Lost Cause'
Encyclopedia Virginia
Death and Martyrdom of Patriarch Gregory V
Orthodox History
Nixon and Ping-Pong Diplomacy
David DeVoss, Smithsonian
A Bloody History of 'The Troubles' in Ireland
ADST
A Brief History of Halley's Comet
Elizabeth Howell, Space.com
Russian-Made TU-154's History of Disasters
BBC News
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