Week of June 17, 2019 Archives

RealClearHistory AM Update

Monday, June 17

10 Most Influential Battles in History

Michael Lee Lanning History Place

How Wellington Beat Napoleon at Waterloo

BBC News

Journalists Didn't Bring Down Nixon

W. Joseph Campbell Media Myth Alert

What Happened to Watergate Burglars?

J. Fama & M. Kiesel ABC News

Wilhelm's Fateful Reign as Kaiser

Michael Duffy First World War

Inside the British Raid on Rommel

Joseph M. Horodyski Warfare History Network

Petain Zealously Did Nazis' Bidding

Lizzy Davies The Guardian

Parenting and Protests: Dr. Spock's Radical Politics

Dangerous Minds

'Pretty Boy' Floyd's K.C. Union Station Massacre

FBI

France's Last Public Beheading

Executed Today

This Day in History: June 17

Tuesday, June 18

First-Hand Accounts: Battle of Stalingrad Survivors

Quinn Armstrong Ranker

U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress Fact Sheet

U.S. Air Force

Incident Report of Mysterious BEA 548 Crash

Aviation Safety Network

It Would Have Been Better if Napoleon Had Won

Andrew Roberts Smithsonian

Hard to Tell Cause of War 1812

Rebecca Beatrice Brooks History of Massachusetts

Nixon 'Furious' at Release of 'Erased' Watergate Tapes

Chris McGreal The Guardian

Reporters Still Don't Know Origins of Watergate

Ron Rosenbaum Slate

Considering 'Third Man' in RFK Assassination

Tim Brennan Washington Decoded

How Brit Became Nazi Pawn

John Simkin Spartacus Educational

Alexander Murray's 'Journal of the Yukon'

Alexander Murray Internet Archive

This Day in History: June 18

Wednesday, June 19

Naivete and the Mexican Emperor Who Shouldn't Have Been

Mex Online

7 Spectacular Wonders of Ancient World

Tristan Hughes History Hit

Could Britain Have Done More for Hong Kong?

Thomas Benge History Today

Rosenberg Case: Latter-Day Dreyfus Affair?

Executed Today

America's Other Independence Day

Kenneth Davis Smithsonian

Mafia Boss Reveals Banker Killing

Tony Thompson The Guardian

German Roots of Great Britain's Royal Family

Finlo Rohrer BBC News

CSS Alabama Finally Meets Its Match

John Rickard History of War

James Gandolfini Died and Sopranas Nearly Did, Too

Brett Martin GQ Magazine

5 Famous People Who Never Should Have Gone to War

Adam Wears Cracked

This Day in History: June 19

Thursday, June 20

My Story: Prisoner at Battle of Bulge

David Lippman Warfare History Network

Ford's Flathead V-8 Was a World War II Hero

Daniel Strohl Hemmings Daily

Moon Dust Smells, No Tang, Other Apollo 11 Oddities

Bruce Dorminey Forbes

Marines Played Unique Role in Boxer Rebellion

Trevor K. Plante National Archives

Did Lizzie Borden Get Away With Murder?

Douglas Linder UMKC

Queen Victoria Changed the Monarchy

Kate Williams BBC

West Virginia Pulls Its Own Secession

Encyclopedia Virginia

Capitol Cities That Moved

History and Headlines

Detroit's Racial Tensions Bubble to Surface

Mount Holyoke College

Bugsy Siegel Was Never Convicted of Major Crime

Evan Andrews History.com

This Day in History: June 20

Friday, June 21

Mystery of Barbarossa: Was Stalin That Blind?

Donald P. Steury CIA

How Germans Viewed France's Collapse

Facts in Review

'Mow Them Down:" A Marine's Memory of Okinawa

James Holland History Extra

Scapa Flow: Where Britannia Ruled the Waves

Samuel Chi Historiat

German Navy Scuttling Act of Valor

Mark Simmons Military History

This WW II Battle Was Desert Debacle

Michael D. Hull Warfare History Network

Why German Invasion of USSR Failed

Mike Ruzza Military History

Adventure That Was Mexican Punitive Expedition

Mitchell Yockelson National Archives

Real Story Behind 'Mississippi Burning'

Douglas O. Linder Famous Trials

Here's How Brit Wellesley Made His Name

History World

This Day in History: June 21 | June 22 | June 23

Monday, June 24

Custer: Tragic Hero or Arrogant Killer?

Frederick J. Chiaventone Cowboys & Indians

How Battle of the Little Bighorn Was Won

Thomas Powers Smithsonian

Life at Subic Bay and What Forced Its Closure

Charles Stuart Kennedy ADST

Battlefield Blunders Across History and the World

Stephan Wilkinson History Net

Titus' Reign Was Short, But Stellar

UNRV History

Vincent Chin and Why His Murder Still Matters

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang NBC News

Long, Colorful History of Catch-All Mann Act

Eric Weiner NPR

John Gotti Was the Boss of Bosses

Ken Gross People

Hitler's Whirlwind Tour of Paris

Albert Speer Inside the Third Reich

This Sporting Event Went 11 Hours, 183 Games

Steve Trignor Tennis

This Day in History: June 24