Week of July 23, 2018 Archives

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Monday, July 23

The History Behind the Graffiti of War

Jonathan Bratten New York Times Magazine

The Color That Means Both Life and Death

Kelly Grovier BBC

1,400 Years of Jihad

Pamela Geller American Thinker

The Taj Mahal: Monumental Neglect

Neeta Lal The Diplomat

What Emperor Hadrian's Reign Meant For Rome

DailyHistory.org

Thank You, Jimmy Carter

Justin Vaïsse Foreign Policy

Nine Famous People and What They're Buried With

Greg Daugherty Smithsonian

This Day in History: July 23

Tuesday, July 24

How the West Wasn't Won

Rick Britton History Net

New Mexico: Atomic Spy Capital

Richard Higgins Warfare History Network

French Revolutionary Lessons of 1968 For Putin's Russia

V. Inozemtsev Worldcrunch

The American Academic Mistaken for a Spy

Rachel Wetzler New Republic

Truman Capote's Decline and Fall

Alex Preston The Guardian

Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans?

Adam Frank The Atlantic

What the War of the Worlds Means Now

Philip Ball New Statesman

A New Lease on Life For LA's Opulent Theaters

BBC

How John Dillinger Finally Met His Maker

Matt Blitz Today I Found Out

A Brief History of Capital Punishment in Britain

History Extra

This Day in History: July 24

Wednesday, July 25

Blood and Terror: Remembering the Romanovs

Madeleine Kearns National Review

'God Bless America': 100 Years of an Immigrant's Anthem

Sheryl Kaskowitz NYT

The Nixon Doctrine: A Pragmatic Cold War Strategy

History on the Net

Russia Is About to Resurrect a Soviet Colossus

Anatoly Zak Popular Mechanics

America's Space Program Fails to Launch

James Pinkerton The American Conservative

A Monumental Yet Incomplete History of Evangelicals

Darren Dochuck Commonweal

An Incomplete Portrait of Baseball and America

Jeremy Venook The Atlantic

10 More Ships With Cool Names

Major Dan History and Headlines

How Wyoming Was Born

Andrew Glass Politico

Taiwan's (World War II) Super Gun, Ready for War with China

Robert Beckhusen TNI

This Day in History: July 25

Thursday, July 26

How the Devil Dogs Were Born

Patrick O'Donnell National Review

The Last Flight of WWI Ace Edward Mannock

Imperial War Museums

Women's Suffrage Movement Started with a Tea Party

Erin Blakemore History.com

30 Years Ago: A Look Back at 1988

Alan Taylor The Atlantic

Jane Austen's First Buyer? Probably a Prince She Hated

Jennifer Schuessler NYT

Xinjiang: The World Has Never Seen Such a Surveillance State

B. Zand Spiegel

Natalie Wood: Solving the Mystery of Actress's Death

Amelia Mcdonell-Parry RS

When the Marines Came to Lebanon

Anthony Elghossain New Republic

How Hugo Chávez Blew Up Venezuela's Oil Patch

Keith Johnson Foreign Policy

Sean Connery Co-Wrote a Bond Film That Was Never Made

Nicholas Barber BBC

This Day in History: July 26

Friday, July 27

Shedding Light on 10 Ancient Civilizations

Brandon Christensen RealClearHistory

New Subway Line Has Unearthed a Long-Buried Rome

Meilan Solly Smithsonian

10 Court Jesters From the Golden Age of Wit

Ed Hingston Top Tenz

Phantasmic Phoenicia

Josephine Quinn Aeon

This Is China's World War I Plan to Take on the U.S. Navy

Lyle Goldstein Nat'l Interest

Lovers of Wisdom

Jim Holt New York Review of Books

11 Facts About Catherine Howard

Emma Mason History Extra

The 'Willy-Nicky' Telegrams

First World War

The Unsung Hero of the Genocide Convention

Marlo Safi National Review

9 Books to Understand Watergate

E. Ce Miller Bustle

This Day in History: July 27 | July 28 | July 29

Monday, July 30

The Date for the Repatriation of Korean War Remains

Olivia B. Waxman Time

Bad Blood: The History of Eugenics in the Progressive Age

Patricia J. Williams TLS

A Conservative Quest to Preserve Network News Broadcasts

Thomas Schwartz TC

A Jamestown Skeleton Is Unearthed

Katherine J. Wu Smithsonian

An Incomplete Portrait of Baseball and America

Jeremy Venook The Atlantic

Artwork from a Depression-Era Vermont

Brian T. Allen National Review

Fatal Favorite: Did the Duke of Buckingham Kill James I?

Mames M. Banner Jr. WS

Bruce Lee: Weird, Gruesome and Oh-So-Cool

Peter Hoskin Spectator

Women Who Dressed as Men and Went to War

Catherine Baker History Today