Week of November 4, 2019 Archives

'With This Tank We Will Finish the War.' Stalin Was Right

Boris Egorov Russia Beyond

The Weapon That Was Good for 3 Wars

Paul Huard War Is Boring

Breathtaking Humiliation of Jesse Ventura's Win

Pam Belluck New York Times

Controversial, Ugly Story of Hughes' 'Flying Lumberyard'

The Aviation Zone

Howard Hughes and His Passion for Flight

Century of Flight

Greatest Computer Hacks in History

Michelle Delio Wired

Why Soviet Tanks Rolled into Budapest

Jordan Rogers ADST

CA-Nevada Border Dispute: Skirmishes, Sierras

Robert D. Temple Nevada Magazine

Hostage Crisis Proved a Khomeini Folly

Ray Takeyh History Reader

Scientific Experiments That Went Wrong

Christopher Stephens TopTenz

Are Hanging Gardens of Babylon a Myth?

Kimberly Lin Historic Mysteries

Demystifying the Contradictions of Louis V

Mellan Solly Smithsonian

Who Was Guy Fawkes?

James Sharpe National Geographic

How Nazis Killed With the Guillotine

Guy Walters Daily Mail

This Siege Ended in Burning of Fort Erie

The War of 1812

Lincoln Did Far More Than Win Civil War

Bucky Fox Investor's Business Daily

Exploring Wonders of Punkva Caves

Ed Whelan Ancient Origins

Battle That Decided China's Fate

Joshua Gilbert Armchair General

JFK-Nixon and Top 10 Closest Presidential Elections

TopTenz

How Every European Country Got Its Name

Relatively Interesting

Revisiting Stunning Landing by Naval Maverick

Andy Wolf War Is Boring

Lack of Supplies, Not Russian Winter, That Did Napoleon In

Meredith Hindley Salon

5 Biggest Lessons From Napoleonic Wars

Akhilesh Pillalamarri National Interest

FDR's Deception to Win a Fourth Term

Barron Lerner Slate

Davis Did Best With What He Had to Work With

Paul Escott Wake Forest University

The Human Cost of Assassinating Hitler's Hangman

History Extra

Questionable Commanders and Battle of Droop Mountain

Wonderful West Virginia

Richard Sorge: Patriot, Playboy, Hero of Soviet Union

Pravda

Browns to Baltimore and Other Roving NFL Teams

History and Headlines

The Proposition That Made California a Blue State

Gustavo Arellano Los Angeles Times

Pershing's Decision Changed How America Fought

M. Neiberg & H. Johnson U.S. Army

Stricken With Cancer, McQueen Died of Heart Attack

Staff Report Los Angeles Times

Turns Out This Man Didn't Kill His Family

Mike McPadden Crime Feed

Was Nixon Really Robbed in 1960?

David Greenberg Slate

The Hanging Chad

Gilder Lehrman

Tom Bradley Wasn't Beaten by 'Bradley Effect'

Sal Russo WSJ

Beards, Smoking and the Crimean War

Frank Smitha Macrohistory

How Magic Johnson Fought HIV

Michael Specter New Yorker

Worst Bridge Collapses in Last 50 Years

Alexandrea Penn CNN

Man Blamed for Most Spectacular Bridge Collapse

Derrick Nunnally The Olympian

Nazi Military Might May Have Been Overstated

Kevin Kallmes Notes on Liberty

Hitler's Failed Power Grab

Christopher Lawton De Spiegel

Cortes' Stunning Victory at Tenochtitlan

All Empires

Allies Begin Comeback in North Africa

William Murray World War II

These Athletes Were Killed in Combat

Christopher Warner Top Tenz

The Great Kasparov-Karpov Duel of 1985

Mark Weeks WCC

25 Celebrities Who Are Now Politicians

James Hetherington Newsweek

X-Rays: Roentgen's Breakthrough Discovery

Nobel Prize

This King Didn't Make Friends With Stockholm Bloodbath

History and Headlines

Burr's Finest Moment: Overseeing Impeachment Trial

Fred Lucas RealClearHistory

Uncovering Lies About China's Great Famine

Elizabeth Gooch History Today

Why Ancient Romans Were Great Military Engineers

John Richardson History Hit

London Found Great American Novel Instead of Gold

Richard Grant Smithsonian

In Search of Northwest Passage

Historic Mysteries

Mystery Still Shrouds Edmund Fitzgerald

Eric Lawrence Detroit Free Press

Botched Statement Brought Down Berlin Wall

Marie Elise Sarotte Wall Street Journal

What If Archduke Ferdinand Had Survived?

Bethany Bell BBC

More to Doolittle Than Famous WW II Raids

Joseph Williams All That's Interesting

237 Years of United States Marines

Global Security

A Rapist's Pre-Execution Poem

Executed Today

RealClearHistory AM Update