Week of January 1, 2018 Archives

RealClearHistory AM Update

Monday, January 1

U.S. GIs Looted, Mutilated Bodies at Bulge

John Fague 11th Armored Division

1824 Presidential Election: America's 'Corrupt Bargain'

U.S. History

Churchill Didn't Say That!

Lee Pollock Wall Street Journal

Clemente's Plane Never Should Have Taken Off

John Racanelli FanGraphs

Happiness Died With Roberto Clemente

Paul Guggenheimer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A History of College Football Bowl Games

Barry's Tickets

New York's 'Subway Vigilante' Was Loved and Hated

Crime Feed

Panama Made Canal Profitable When U.S. Couldn't

NYU Stern

Meet the 'Other Steve' Behind Apple Computers

Sydney Morning Herald

Where Did Great Christmas Songs Go?

Addison Del Mastro The American Conservative

This Day in History: January 1

Tuesday, January 2

Stories From Stairway 13, the Steps to Hell

Belfast Telegraph

Duquesne Spy Ring: FBI's Greatest Catch

Spy Museum

Destruction of the Japanese Navy

Christopher Miskimon Warfare History Network

Who Was Richard 'Bruno' Hauptmann?

CharlesLindbergh.com

A Forgotten War and Other Long Conflicts

Mike Rothschild Ranker

Parallels Between Port Arthur, Pearl Harbor

Alan Peck The National Interest

WW I Blimps Were Great at Scaring People

Jordan Golson Wired

Detente, Star Wars and the Nuclear Arms Race

Robert Longley ThoughtCo.com

Ironically, War Makes Medicine Better

Shaun McCann History Today

P.T. Barnum's Most Famous 'Freaks'

Sean Cunningham RealClearLife

This Day in History: January 2

Wednesday, January 3

South Couldn't Convince Delaware to Secede

ThisCruelWar

How Would U.S. Survive Nuclear Attack? By Eating Crackers

Garrett M. Graff Eater

Dogs, Marines and How Princeton Altered Revolutionary War

Mount Vernon

The Last Word From World War II Ace

Colin Heaton Aviation History

55-MPH Speed Limit Useless

James Baxter U.S. News & World Report

Noriega Wasn't 1st to Succumb to Music Torture

BBC News

Mexcian Imprisonment Shaped Stephen F. Austin's Views

Amelia White Medium

Prof. Nimitz and Birth of ROTC

Ed Mergele University of Texas

America Wasn't Only Country to Have Wild West

Mark C. Eddy History News Network

Did Bills Come Back or Did Oilers Fold?

Dave Seminara New York Times

This Day in History: January 3

Thursday, January 4

Battle of Stones River a Little-Known Corner of Hell

Civil War Trust

Colt Revolver Won -- and Defined -- the West

Matthew Moss Popular Mechanics

Breaking Down Schlieffen, Other WW I Plans

First World War

What's Great About Great Society

Joseph Califano Jr. Wash. Monthly

Failure to Learn From Korea Doomed Vietnam

Military History

Ariel Sharon Made Israel's Destiny His Own

Max Blumenthal The Nation

Did Sputnik Break Apart Upon Re-Entry?

Nell Greenfieldboyce NPR

Revisiting Initial Goals, Hopes for Euro

European Central Bank

Floating Airport and Other Unrealized NYC Buildings

David Freelander Daily Beast

What Happened to Glamour of Air Travel?

Katia Hetter CNN Travel

This Day in History: January 4

Friday, January 5

King's Assassin Executed: Drawn and Quartered

Executed Today

10 Cities That Were Once Capitals

Brandon Christensen RealClearHistory

How Mining Led to Murder

Daryl Worthington New Historian

The Ghost of 2000's Hanging Chad

Jill Ament Texas Public Radio

Wireless World: Man Really Did Predict Future

Arthur C. Clarke American Heritage

The Journey of the Telegraph Age

Connected Earth

We Built the Golden Gate Bridge

IBEW

Hoover Dam, French Market, Other New Deal Structures

Patrick Sisson Curbed

A Brief History of Cambodia's Bloody Regime

Dan Fletcher Time

No, Sox Didn't Sell Babe to Fund 'No, No Nanette'

Andrew Mearns Pinstripe Alley

This Day in History: January 5

Monday, January 8

There's a Reason He Was Called Crazy Horse

Biography

Proof Americas Were Settled Earlier Than Thought

Lorraine Boissoneault Smithsonian

Emperor Hirohito Didn't Want to Go to War

Japan Times

English Risked Big, and Lost

Theodore Roosevelt Naval War of 1812

Why Does NYT Still Blame Palin for Giffords' Shooting?

PunditFact

Alfred Packer: Cannibal Turned Folk Hero

Cheryl Eddy Gizmodo

How War Came to Gallipoli

Michael Duffy First World War

Did 'Ma Bell' Really Need to Be Broken Up?

Brad Reed Network World

This Day in History: January 8