July 25, 2016 Archives

Week of July 25, 2016 Archives

RealClearHistory Morning Edition

Monday, July 25

Civil War No Source of Pride for South

Jeff Schweitzer, Huffington Post

Confederacy Wasn't About States' Rights

Timothy S. Huebner, RCH

What Lincoln Meant to the Slaves

Steven Hahn, New York Times

Constantine: Rome's Great Christian Emperor

Roman Empire

The Imperfect Union of England and Scotland

Allan Macinnes, BBC

Bermuda: Born of a Shipwreck

Keith Archibald Forbes, Bermuda Online

Legend of Mexico's Robin Hood

Maggie Van Ostrand , Mex Connect

How Puerto Rico Became American

Mark Barnes, Span-Am War

Almost a Republic of Newfoundland

Frank Jacobs, New York Times

How Concorde Flight Met Its Doom

David Rose, The Observer

Tuesday, July 26

From Nazis' V-2 Rocket to Space Age

Owen Edwards, Smithsonian

How Allies Found Peenemunde and Hitler's WMDs

Global Security

Lincoln's Troubles With McClellan

Ethan Rafuse, McClellan’s War

The Rise and Fall of George McClellan

Encyclopedia Virginia

The Storied History of U.S. Postal Service

Time

Ben Franklin vs. the Age of Obama

Jarrett Stepman, Human Events

The Legacy of CIA's Founding Fathers

Tim Weiner, NPR

How Castro Got Started in Cuba

Miguel Faria, Hacienda Publishing

ADA: Expensive, Coercive, Bad Law

Walter Olson, Cato Institute

Did Van Gogh Actually Shoot Himself?

Daniel Bates, Daily Mail

Wednesday, July 27

What If Germans Had Won Great War?

Martin Kettle, The Guardian

Top 10 Battles of World War I

Samuel Chi, RealClearHistory

The Great War: A History in Photos

Alan Taylor, The Atlantic

10 Worst Military Leaders in History

Jeff Danelek, TopTenz

Beating Invincible Rommel at Alamein

Peter Chen, WWII Database

What If North Had Won Korean War

Andrei Lankov, Asia Times

A Glimpse of the 'Forgotten Conflict'

Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian

Why Chicago Went Up in Flames

Walter White, History Matters

How Eric Rudolph Evaded Authorities

Patrik Jonsson, CS Monitor

Richard Jewell's Olympic Nightmare

Marie Brenner, Vanity Fair

Thursday, July 28

Robespierre: An Enigmatic Villain

Marisa Linton, History Today

Did Guillotine's Invention Cause More Heads to Roll?

History Wiz

Hosting Games for a Shattered World

Jim Coyle, Toronto Star

London's Cheap and Profitable Olympics

Larry Elliott, The Guardian

Engineering Marvel: How Channel Tunnel Was Built

EuroTunnel

Massive Quake That Shook Up China

Graham Earnshaw, Telegraph

An Aftershock 36 Years Later?

Josh Chin, Wall Street Journal

When Bomber Strikes Empire State Building

Joe Richman, NPR

'Cleopatra of Secession' as a Spy

Mary Lou Groh, Civil War Trust

The Woman Who Doomed Fairy Tale Marriage

Laura Barton, Slate

Friday, July 29

USS Indianapolis' Surreal Final Trip

Lewis Haynes, U.S. Navy

Was McVay to Blame for Sinking?

Wayland Mayo, B-29s Over Korea

Survivor Recounts Brutal Shark Attack

Amy Hunter, Herald Courier

Fate of Japanese Captain Who Sank Indy

USS Indianapolis

Latest on Hoffa Demise: Woodchipper

Murray Weiss, DNA Info

Why Are We So Obsessed With Jimmy Hoffa?

Alan Greenblatt, NPR

Chaos Beyond the Crater

Emmanuel Dabney, Hallowed Ground

Where Did 'In God We Trust' Come From?

Department of Treasury

Is There a Michigan Flag on Moon?

Leah Graboski, Michigan Daily

Why Do Countries Drive on the Right or Left?

World Standards

Saturday, July 30

Why Jews Were Expelled From Spain

Kevin Knight, New Advent

Torquemada: Man Behind Inquisition

J.T. Didymus, Eye on Spain

Spanish Inquisition's Genetic Legacy

Ewen Callaway, New Scientist

The Legend of 'Stab-in-the-Back'

Chris Trueman, History Learning Site

Germany: From Weimar to Hitler

Paul Bookbinder, Facing History

Hitler's Triumph at the Ballot Box

Philip Gavin, History Place

Ypres: Victory Recedes to Stalemate

Michael Duffy, First World War

How British Army Took Back Northern Ireland

Derry Journal

Dafoe: An Original Journalist

Steve King, Today in Literature

K-2: The Killing Peak

Matthew Power, Men's Journal