Week of May 16, 2016 Archives

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Monday, May 16
Mao: 20th Century's Biggest Monster?
Beth Duff-Brown, LA Times
Mao Tops List of Notorious Murderers
Nigel Jones, Daily Mail
Cultural Revolution Still Isn't Over
Cao Changqing, Taipei Times
Did Andrew Johnson Buy Vote for Acquittal?
Douglas Linder, UMKC
Why Johnson's Impeachment Is Still Relevant
Eric Black, MinnPost
Why I Confessed to Being a Spy
William Oatis, Life
10 Most Famous Spies in History
Jamie Frater, Listverse
Marie Antoinette's Short, Unhappy Life
Marie Antoinette Online
Lose Her Head Over Fad
Hunter Oatman-Stanford, Collectors Weekly
A Magical Start of a Magical Ride
Joseph Nardone, Yardbarker
Tuesday, May 17
Did Brown v. Board Ever Really Matter?
Cass Sunstein, New Yorker
The Bitter Fruits of Forced Desegregation Busing
Hoover Institution
Segregation Strikes Out at Supreme Court
Douglas Linder, UMKC
Dambusters: RAF's Most Daring Raid
Sarah Rainey, The Telegraph
The Deadliest Day of 'The Troubles'
Justice for the Forgotten
The Short, Violent Times of SLA
Chris Suellentrop, Slate
Most Audacious Police Shootouts in History
Jamie Frater, Listverse
Troubles for Navy in Hormuz Strait
Jason Manning, The Eighties Club
St. Louis Engulfed by Burning Mississippi
Tim O'Neil, Post-Dispatch
Wall Street's Birth Under Buttonwood Tree
USA Today
Wednesday, May 18
Why France Lost Seven Years' War
Andrew Wright, Military History
European Powers Tussle Worldwide
John Rickard, History of War
Allies' Pyrrhic Victory at Monte Cassino
Richard Holmes, BBC News
Horrible Error Led to Abbey's Destruction
John Ezard, The Guardian
Islam's Brutal But Failed Malta Siege
James Jackson, Daily Mail
Eli Cohen: Israel's Master Spy in Syria
Maurice Cohen, Jewish Mag.
Plessy and Road to Jim Crow
C. Vann Woodward, American Heritage
The Rebirth of Mount St. Helens
McKenzie Funk, National Geographic
A Photographic Memory of Eruption
Feliks Banel, Seattle P-I
Tank on the Loose in San Diego
P. LaVelle & P. Dibsie, U-T San Diego
Thursday, May 19
Germany's Audacious Airborne Conquest
Peter Antill, History of War
Behind the Legend of German Fallschirmjager
Lone Sentry
Paratroopers in Combat: Past and Present
John T. Reed
Union's Bloody Spotsylvania Miscue
Curtis Crockett, Civil War Trust
Ulysses Grant Was No Butcher
Elizabeth Pezzullo, Fredericksburg.com
Lindbergh's Historic Transatlantic Flight
Charles Lindbergh
Mystery Man of Spirit of St. Louis
Joseph Tekulsky, Aviation History
Vasco de Gama's Passage to India
Paul Halsall, Fordham University
Imperial Spain Ready to Teach English Lesson
Simon Adams, BBC
Connecting HIV to AIDS
Robert Gallo & Luc Montagnier, NEJM
Friday, May 20
The Law That Lit Fuse for Civil War
Ross Drake, Smithsonian
Kansas Bleeds in Border War
Eyewitness to History
Missouri vs. Kansas: The Nasty Rivalry
Robert Mays, Grantland
The Myth of Twinkie Defense
Carol Pogash, San Francisco Chronicle
The Death Throes of Old San Francisco
Kevin Mullen, Found SF
Leopold and Loeb's Criminal Minds
Simon Baatz, Smithsonian
Falklands Nearly Sunk Iron Lady
Maurice Hayes, Irish Independent
How Falklands Survivors Made It Through
Terri Judd, Independent
Tamil Tigers Confess Gandhi Killing
S. Ramachandran, Asia Times
Don't Blame Islam for Suicide Bombing
Robert Pape, Foreign Policy
Saturday, May 21
Did Soviet Union Sink U.S. Sub Scorpion?
Ed Offley, MHQ
Myth and Reality of Grant at Vicksburg
Parker Hills, Civil War Trust
How Great Society Harmed America's Blacks
Mychal Massie, WND
LBJ: The Cruel Idealist
Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic
The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr
Douglas Linder, UMKC
A Savage Beating in Halls of Congress
Pat Horan, Historiat
Jealous Duce Was Green With Hitler-Envy
Jane Fryer, Daily Mail
Unholy Union of Germany, Italy
Chris Trueman, History Learning Site
The Story of Steamship
Maximilian Foster, The Future of Our Past
Mystery and Unraveling of Chandra Levy Case
Washington Post
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