Week of May 14, 2018 Archives

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Monday, May 14
Elephants Couldn't Stop Alexander the Great
Gabrielle Esposito Warfare History Network
A Middle-Aged Lawyer, a Bald Hill, and Union Valor
Scott C. Patchan History Net
The Day George Wallace Got Shot
William Greider Washington Post
Story of Henry III Begins With a King Behaving Badly
Burn Pit
Washington's Secret Spies Changed Revolution
Patti Wigington ThoughtCo.com
Analysis of Koestler's Coverage of Israel's Founding
Oliver Holmes The Guardian
Trials and Tribulations of Skylab
Elizabeth Howell Space.com
Pad 14's Remarkable Place in History
Ben Evans America Space


Tuesday, May 15
Excess, Naivety, and Marie Antoinette Reviled
Judith Thurman New Yorker
Puckle Gun Was a Tech Marvel
Edmund John Carter III History Writer Blog
10 Greatest Machine Guns
History and Headlines
'Midships Was Now the Bow'
Joseph Connor Warfare History Network
Pearl Harbor Attack Forced Airliner to Fly Around World
John Bull Medium
Mao: 20th Century's Biggest Monster?
Beth Duff-Brown LA Times
Mao Tops List of Notorious Murderers
Nigel Jones Daily Mail
Bombers Regret Hitting Morrocan Holy City
Lee Ferran RealClearLife
Did Andrew Johnson Buy Vote for Acquittal?
Douglas Linder UMKC
What's Changed Since Altab Ali Murder?
David Rosenberg Open Democracy
This Date in History: May 15


Wednesday, May 16
Marines Fought Marines Once in History
Gerald S. Henig U.S. Naval Institute
Was Israel Cleansed of Arabs? Depends Who You Ask
Foreign Policy
Why Johnson, Clinton Weren't Convicted
Tom Murse ThoughtCo.com
Electric Kool-Aid and Wolfe's Impact on Language
Ben Zimmer The Atlantic
Dulles Offered to Resign Over U-2 Spy Plane Incident
ADST
Dambusters: RAF's Most Daring Raid
Sarah Rainey The Telegraph
From Queen Victoria to Darwin: Legacies of Victorianism
Geopolicraticus
St. Louis Engulfed by Burning Mississippi
Tim O'Neil Post-Dispatch
Most Audacious Police Shootouts in History
Jamie Frater Listverse
Summitting Everest in a Helicopter
Karl Smallwood Today I Found Out


Thursday, May 17
What Really Happened to Louis XVII?
History Wiz
Mapping WW II in 3-D
Alistair Pearson Cartography and Geographic Information Science
In 17 Minutes, Donna Summer Changed Music
Matthew Guerrieri Boston Globe
The Seven Years War and Britain's Passage to India
Austin Bay RealClearPolitics
Why France Lost Seven Years' War
Andrew Wright Military History
Did Brown v. Board Really Make a Difference?
Ronald Brownstein The Atlantic
Taxes, Tyranny, and America's Desire for Independence
Kelly Phillps Erb Forbes
Watergate: Threats, Lies, and Audiotapes
Thomas van der Voort Miller Center
Plessy and Road to Jim Crow
C. Vann Woodward American Heritage
Tank on the Loose in San Diego
P. LaVelle & P. Dibsie U-T San Diego
This Date in History: May 17


Friday, May 18
Agent 'Garbo' and the Memo That Fooled Hitler
Jon Kelly BBC News Magazine
10 Dictators Who 'Gave Up' Power
Brandon Christensen RealClearHistory
Eating Pets, Dwelling in Caves to Survive Civil War
Ronald E. Franklin Owlcation
Monte Cassino: A Soldier's Review of the Action
World War II Today
Germany's Audacious Airborne Conquest
Peter Antill History of War
FDR Thought Baseball Good for Morale in WW II
Matt Cox Baseball Hall of Fame
The Law That Lit Fuse for Civil War
Ross Drake Smithsonian
Ulysses Grant Was No Butcher
Elizabeth Pezzullo Fredericksburg.com
Insights Into the Kingdom of Kush
James MacDonald JSTOR Daily
Blue Blood of 'Living Fossil' Has Kept Us Alive
Sarah Zhang The Atlantic
This Date in History: May 18 | May 19 | May 20
Monday, May 21
Henry VI Wasn't Fit to Be a King
Mad Monarchs
Kill for Thrills: Inside a 1924 Chicago Murder
Simon Baartz Smithsonian
America's Psychology of Fear Dates to '95
W. Joseph Campbell The 1995 Blog
Tracing India's 'Cooperation' With Britain
Joshua Curiel RealClearHistory
Coercive Acts? Not So Fast, Said Colonists
America in Class
'I Won't Feel ... Cheated if I Fail to Come Back'
Judith Thurman New Yorker
Wearin' My Levis ....
The Idleman
This Day in History: May 21


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