Week of May 6, 2019 Archives

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Monday, May 6
Battle of the Wilderness Gave Union Strategic Advantage
History Net
When Did WW II Really End for Europe?
DW-World
Beaten Germany Awaits Her Fate
Jeffrey Olick University of Chicago
Germany in Limbo: Reims to Postdam
Earl Ziemke Global Security
Alan Shepard's Journey to Becoming 1st in Space
Nola Taylor Redd Space.com
Japanese Balloon Bomb Kills 6 -- in Oregon
Katie Serena All That's Interesting
Here's Reason Cinco de Mayo Is Celebrated
Isabel Buena National Geographic
Was Louis XVI Addicted to Hunting?
Christopher J. Ferguson Psychology Today
How Britain Greeted End of War in Europe
Gary Sheffield BBC News
Inside Look at America's Most Prolific Hangman
Marie Bartlett True West Magazine
THis Day in History: May 6


Tuesday, May 7
Fear, Propaganda Led Germany to Fight On
Heather Jones Irish Times
3 Million Germans Died After V-E Day
Nigel Jones The Telegraph
Somme: 1 Million Lives for 7 Miles
Michael Haskew Warfare History Network
Only 1 Survived Eruption in 'Paris of the West Indies'
Robin McKie The Guardian
Germ Warfare and Pontiac's Rebellion
Robert Wilde ThoughtCo.com
Africa's Cursed Lake and Its German Treasure
Seigfried Agenbag Namibiana.de
Putin: From Shared Apartment to World Leader
Encyclopedia of World Biography
Lusitania's Final, Fateful Voyage
Vincent Kan First World War
China's Non-Boycott Changed L.A. Games
Lynn Zinser NY Times
Gary Cooper Was More Than Just Film Icon
Mary Claire Kendall Forbes
This Day in History: May 7


Wednesday, May 8
Here's How the Enigma Machine Works
Alan Stripp PBS
How a Team of Poles Cracked 'Enigma'
Laurence Peter BBC News
Battle That Made Zachary Taylor a Hero
Ancient Pages
Details, Including Order of Battle and Maps, of Battle of Coral Sea
WW2 Facts
China Owned Taiwan, Then Ceded It to Japan
Gerrit van der Wees Taipei Times
Soviet Perspective on '84 Olympic Boycott
Alexey Timofeychev Russia Beyond
The German Occupation of Guernsey, Channel Islands
Visit Guernsey
Man Who Discovered Mighty Mississippi Was Almost a Lawyer
Biography
A Savage Bank Robbery Gone Bad
Shirlee Pigeon Riverside Sheriffs
From the Beginning, Post Office a Hotbed of Innovation
Kevin Kosar The Week
This Day in History: May 8


Thursday, May 9
5 Reasons America Crushed Everyone During WW II
Michael Peck National Interest
Alexander the Great Was Epitomy Charismatic Leader
Tristan Hughes History Hit
Was World War I Really Worth It?
Benjamin Schwarz The Atlantic
2nd Battle of Artois: Savage, Futile
Eric Sass Mental Floss
Ciphers and a U-Boat Filling With Water
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore The Guardian
Lessons from Luftwaffe's Rise and Fall
William Andrews Air Power
Watergate Crisis Cost Nixon Public Support
Andrew Kohut Pew Research
The Genius of Stonewall
Jeffrey Williams This Week in Civil War
Hoover's Obsession With Hunting Hitler
Amir Oren Haaretz
Spine Chilling, Crazy Adventures of Pinkerton Detectives
Radu Alexander TopTenz
This Day in History: May 9


Friday, May 10
Britain Invaded Iceland, and Other Little Known Places
History and Headlines
Truth About The 3 Marines Left Behind to Die
Peter Maguire The Diplomat
Colonies' 1st Bloody Uprising Against English
Taig Spearman All That's Interesting
Wilson's, Jackson's Legacies Decline, Grant's Rises
Howard Tanzman RealClearHistory
How Mossad Nabbed Eichmann
Doron Geller Jewish Virtual Library
Lessons of Diplomacy and Suez Crisis
Jordan Chandler Hirsch War On the Rocks
Tea Act Set Stage for Start of Revolution
Steve Balestrieri Special Operations
How Japan Became a Pacifist Nation
Christopher Harding History Today
Kamikazes as Japan's Last Resort
Peter Chen World War II Database
Was KGB Involved in Shooting Pope?
BBC News
This Day in History: May 10 | May 11 | May 12
Monday, May 13
Why Ancient Rome Kept Picking Crazy Emperors
Phil Edwards Vox
1 Day Old, Israel Begins War of Survival
Jewish Virtual Library
How Israel Got Its Name
Haaretz
Wallace: A Career of Tumult and Ultimately, Failure
The Telegraph
Seduction and a Marine's Betrayal
Charles Stuart Kennedy ADST
Fumbled Crown Among George VI Coronoation Blunders
Express
How Reagan Launched Career in Berkeley
Jeffrey Kahn UC Berkeley
Netherlands Under Nazi Occupation
Linda Woolf Webster University
Sun King's Shadow Over France
Louis XIV
McDonald's: Humble Start to World Domination
Daniel Gross Forbes
This Day in History: May 13


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