Week of January 28, 2019 Archives

RealClearHistory AM Update

Monday, January 28

Inside Science Behind Challenger Disaster

Karl Tate Space.com

8 Lessons Christa McAuliffe Never Got to Teach

Kelly Dickerson Business Insider

Trajan: History's Most-Loved Emperor?

UNRV History

'Vampire Killer' Cannibalized Victims, Too

All That's Interesting

The Nazis' Killing Grounds at Auschwitz

Holocaust Museum

Leningrad Under Siege: 'Only Skeletons, Not People'

Guy Walters Daily Mail

Paris' Fall Ends Franco-Prussian War

Kennedy Hickman ThoughtCo.com

Deep Dive Into Rise and Fall of Siad Barre and Somalia Civil War

Tufts

Hard-Luck Grissom Had the Right Stuff

Diana Whay Poll Burning

10 Things You Didn't Know About Dante

Italian Tribune

This Day in History: Jan. 28

Tuesday, January 29

Rommel's Greatest Combat Successes Were in WW I

War History Online

Should We Give Gitmo Back to Cuba?

Jonathan M. Hansen New York Times

How Democracy Produced a Monster

Ian Kershaw New York Times

Blue Urine and Truth About King George III's Madness

Lucy Worsley BBC News

Divided Kansas Joins Union on Eve of Civil War

Beccy Tanner Kansas.com

A Deadly Incident Behind the Iron Curtain

Western Allies Berlin

Make No Mistake, Western Civilization Is Best

Jeff Lukens American Thinker

Japan Uncorks Another Outrage in China

Peter Chen WWII Database

Birth of Baseball HOF and the 'First Five'

Matt Kelly Baseball Hall of Fame

Color TV Changed U.S. World View, World View of U.S.

Susan Murray Smithsonian

This Day in History: Jan. 29

Wednesday, January 30

What Kind of King Was Charles I?

National Archives

Andrew Jackson Beat Would-Be Assassin With Cane

History 101

10 Presidents Who Survived Assassination Tries

Michael Slenske The Atlantic

Germany Descends Into Darkness

Philip Gavin History Place

Hitler's Audacious Plan to Seize Power

Frank Smitha Microhistory

Cronkite's Influence on Vietnam War

Joel Achenbach Washington Post

Indian Take on Politics of Ghandi Assassination

Abhishek Saha Hindustan Times

The Day Mohandas Gandhi Was Assassinated

James Michaels UPI

Blood, Sweat, Toil Along Burma Road

Donovan Webster NatGeo

The Revenge of the Ronin

History and Headlines

This Day in History: Jan. 30

Thursday, January 31

Should Eddie Slovik Really Have Been Executed?

Joseph Connor History Net

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Cost Germany WWI

Robert Wilde ThoughtCo.com

Breaking Down Stalin vs. Trotsky

Gerhard Rempel WNEC

Tet Offensive Still a Vibrant Subject of Debate

Don Oberdorfer Smithsonian

Inside Viet Cong Attack on U.S. Embassy

ADST

11 Hollywood Holocaust Survivors Share Stories

Peter Flax Hollywood Reporter

Alaska Airline's Pacific Plunge

Christine Clarridge Seattle Times

Guy Fawkes' Role in Gunpowder Plot and Ultimate Death

History Extra

Native Americans Herded Into Reservations

PBS

Apollo 14's Crew Just a Bunch of 'Rookies'

Elizabeth Howell Space.com

This Day in History: Jan. 31

Friday, February 1

Here's Why Russia Won Battle of Stalingrad

Alexey Timofeychev Russia Beyond

A New Look at Battle of Stalingrad

Michael Sontheimer Der Spiegel

Agonizing Destruction of Sixth Army

Dennis Showalter WWII Mag.

MacArthur's 10 Most Important Battles

Brandon Christensen RealClearHistory

Recovering Space Shuttle Columbia

FBI

Original Hollywood Dream: Midwesterner's Paradise

Hadley Meares Curbed

A Very Misunderstood Photograph

Jonah Goldberg National Review

Sam Houston's Struggle Against Texas Secession

Kate Galbraith Texas Tribune

Horst Faas and His Army

Amy Davidson The New Yorker

Piecing Together Phillip Seymour Hoffman's Final Hours

Staff Report CNN

This Day in History: Feb. 1 | Feb. 2 | Feb. 3

Monday, February 4

Elizabeth I Was Likely Anything But a Virgin Queen

Anna Whitelock History Extra

Prince Rupert Was a Master of War

Arnold Blumberg Warfare History Network

Roosevelt Was Hardly Naive About Stalin

Arthur Schlesinger HNN

Hugo Chavez Ruined Venezuela

David Papadopoulos Bloomberg Businessweek

Gone Girl: Bizarre Tale of Patty Hearst Abduction

Caitlin Flanagan The Atlantic

George Washington Before the Presidency

Miller Center

ABSCAM Proof Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction

Ted Sherman Inside Jersey

Japan's Army Unleashes Manila Massacre

Battling Bastards of Bataan

Here's What Happened the Day the Music Died

Boban Docevski Vintage News

'Snow White' Was Disney's Big Gamble

Ben Simon Animated Views

This Day in History: Feb. 4