Week of October 16, 2017 Archives

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Monday, October 16
Maybe Henry Farr Wasn't a Coward
Emma Battell Lowman University of Leicester
Scapa Flow an Underwater Treasure Trove
ScapaFlowWrecks.com
Long March China's Version of Dunkirk Evacuation
China Sage
Pastry, Chewing Gum, and French-Mexican War
Shahan Russell War History Online
Al Capone's Life and Times at Alcatraz
Alcatraz History
Mata Hari's Private Life Downright Tragic
Julie Wheelwright The Guardian
Ruination of Language Could Disrupt World Order
Charles Hill Defining Ideas
This Day in History: October 16


Tuesday, October 17
All About Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'
D. Hughs & N. Baker The Sun
Here's Why Capone Wasn't Tried for Murder
Josh Clark How Stuff Works
Saving the Mason-Dixon Line
Bijal Trivedi National Geographic
Red Star Line Saved Einstein's Life
Sheena McKenzie CNN
Why France Sided With Revolutionaries
Richard M. Ketchum American Heritage
A History of World's Tallest Buildings
Aubrey Cohen Seattle P-I
Famous Airship and Zeppelin Accidents
Zeppelin History
Why 'Moby Dick' Is Still Worth Reading
Linda Holmes NPR
Despite Kidnapping, U.S., Bulgaria Friendly
Ivan Dikov Archaeology in Bulgaria
This Day in History: October 17


Wednesday, October 18
Enemy 'Appears to Have Got Off Free'
David H. Lippman Warfare History Network
Prince Albert's Marriage Was a Powerplay
Elinor Evans History Extra
Wall Street Panicked 'Like a Country During a Coup'
Richard Dewey Bloomberg
Remembering Lee Harvey Oswald as a Friend
Paul Gregory New York Times
Napoleon's Disastrous Retreat From Moscow
Paul Britten-Austin BBC
Scientists Solving Mystery of Old Faithful
Kelsey Kennedy Atlas Obscura
The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson
Henry Wiencek Smithsonian
MacArthur Makes His Famous Return
Pat Horan Historiat
Tzar Nicholas II Begs Kaiser to Avoid War
First World War
This Day in History: October 18


Thursday, October 19
Anatomy of the Battle at Yorktown
HistoryPlex
1st Suicide Bomb Attack on America
Jim Michaels USA Today
N. Korea's Fat Dictator May Not Be What He Seems
Mark Bowden Vanity Fair
Social Media Is Killing Pursuit of Knowledge
Hossein Derakhshan Wired
The Man and the Legend of Horatio Nelson
Colin White BBC
Tailor Turned Spy Saved George Washington -- Twice
Gil Troy The Daily Beast
Rapid Rise of Austria's Sebastian Kurz
Walter Mayr Der Spiegel
Donuts Debuted in English High Society
Daniel Miller Daily Mail
Trader: Economics Didn't Cause 'Black Monday'
Matt Maley CNBC
Cunning Mao Cut India Down to Size
Brahma Chellaney Rediff
This Day in History: October 19


Friday, October 20
History's Only Underwater Sub-to-Sub Kill
Tony Wilkins Defence of the Realm
German Expulsion Changed Face of Europe
Adam Taylor Washington Post
Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Warfare
Uri Noy 2 World War 2
Were Jefferson, Hemings Really in Love?
Annette Gordon-Reed American Heritage
Partition Creates Problems, Doesn't Solve Them
Robert Schaeffer New Republic
Inside Building, Preservation of Sydney Opera House
Blair Winter Getty.edu
Oscar Pistorius: From Gold to Gunning Down Girlfriend
Tom Geoghegan BBC
Lincoln's Crackdown on Civil Liberties
David Greenberg Slate
Von Braun: The Original Rocket Scientist
Robin Williams NASA
Concorde a Tech -- and Taste -- Thrill
Robert van der Linden Air & Space Magazine
This Day in History: October 20
Monday, October 23
Berlin Was Key to Cold War All Along
Fred Kaplan Slate
PFC Dives on Live Grenade to Save Comrades
Brian Scott MacKenzie Medium
Moscow Killed Its Own During Theater Seige
Rory Challands Al Jazeera
Reagan: 'We Must Keep Labor Unions Clean'
History Matters
Apparently, Nuclear Landmines Were a Thing
Lee Ferran RealClearLife
Beltway Sniper: 'I Was a Monster'
Josh White Washington Post
KISS, Concorde, and Carter: Look Back at '77
Alan Taylor The Atlantic
Remembering Earthquake That Stopped World Series
Jeff Gluck For the Win
Where Did Dogs Come From? Good Question
Ed Yong The Atlantic
This Date in History: October 23


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