Week of October 23, 2017 Archives

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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

Tuesday, October 24

Tzar Nicholas II Was Author of Own Demise

Robert Service History Extra

Pickled Head of This Russian Not in Any Museum

Natasha Frost Atlas Obscura

Why French Lost at Agincourt

Ellis-Petersen & Fraser The Telegraph

Legacy of Chile's Allende: Never Surrender

The Argentina Independent

United Nations Exists for These Reasons

Ian Bremmer Time

Walt Disney's Long Ties to FBI

Herbert Mitgang New York Times

How Politics, Mob, and Ruth Shaped '32 World Series

Will Levith RealClearLife

Meet Man Behind Gibson's Magic Homer

Bill Plaschke Los Angeles Times

199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die

Agatha French Los Angeles Times

This Day in History: October 24

Wednesday, October 25

Mystery of JFK Papers May Be in What's Missing

Aidyn Mehtiyev Pravda Report

Kamikaze: We Didn't Think Much About Dying

Justin McCurry The Guardian

Champagne, Cigars, and Churchill's Money Troubles

Deborah Cohen The Atlantic

What Was the Point of Invading Grenada?

Amir Roohi History Buff

Wyatt Earp: Frontier Lawman in Wild West

Legends of America

Harding Died Before He Could Be Impeached

Phil Roberts Wyoming History

Anti-Semitism Doesn't Belong in Civil Rights Act

Ruth R. Wisse National Affairs

Mossad's License to Kill

Gordon Thomas Daily Telegraph

From Birth Control to Alcatraz: Key Moments in U.S. History

Time

This Day in History: October 25

Thursday, October 26

Truth About 'Bloody Bill' Better Than Fiction

Paul R. Peterson Legends of America

Reliving Day the USS Hornet Sunk

If Only I Had a Time Machine

All About Tombstone and What Happened at OK Corral

Kieran Mulvaney Seeker

Turns Out Soviets Didn't Need Sonar to Snoop

David Hambling Popular Mechanics

Nietzsche: Out of Battlefield, a Philosopher

Stanford University

Reagan Saved Grenada From 'Certain Chaos'

BBC

Park Chung-hee Korea's Most Popular President

Eugene Yi New American Media

Where, Exactly, Did Alt-Right Come From?

George Michael Salon

20+ Years Later, NAFTA Needs an Overhaul

Richard Epstein Defining Ideas

My Hands Were 'Like You Would See in an X-Ray'

Ralph Benko Forbes

This Date in History: October 26

Friday, October 27

Tsar Nicholas, Predecessors Not Really Russian

Deyan Mitevski Russia Beyond

Coke, Viagra, and Other Stuff Invented by Mistake

Robert Hume History Extra

Beer, Butter, Beans Key Revolutionary War Rations

Marko Zlatich American History

U.S. Pilot Helps Ease Stress of Cuban Missle Crisis

Bryan Bender Boston Globe

7 Nuclear Screwups the World Narrowly Survived

Cracked

Tracing History of Christians in Middle East

Assyrian International News Agency

Mar-a-Lago Always Planned as Winter White House

Michael Luongo Smithsonian

Buckner's Booted Ball Among Biggest Chokes in Sports

CBS Sports

The Dawn of a New World Order After Suez

The Economist

De Gaulle Was a Romantic in Love With France

Curtis Cate The Atlantic

This Day in History: October 27

Monday, October 30

Night That Panicked America a Myth

W. Joseph Campbell Media Myth Alert

History of All Hallows Eve

Tom Chivers The Telegraph

British Got Gaza -- and Water -- With Capture of Beersheba

History of War

Battle of Caporetto Chaotic and Scarred Town

Vanda Wilcox History Today

Suez Crisis Was London Grasping for Superiority

Derek Brown The Guardian

1929 Crash Created Split at Federal Reserve

Federal Reserve History

Inside John Glenn's Missions to Space

Andrew Chalkin Air & Space Magazine

Musk Owns Bond Car, Paid for College by Partying

Lydia Belanger Entrepreneur

This Day in History: October 30