Week of February 17, 2020 Archives

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Monday, February 17
Who Were the Knights Hopitaller?
History and Headlines
Union, Confederate Takes on Burning of Columbia
History Net
'Success' of Yalta a Lie
Dan Hannan Washington Examiner
Thomas Jefferson's Eventful Elections
Peter Onuf Miller Center
Jefferson, Adams Were Original Frenemies
Ben Fellows History Hit
Don't Forget Castro Was a Monster
Karen Alea Narratively
One-Time Communist Allies Turn on Each Other
Global Security
Coffee's Role in Sparking Revolutions
Jessica Pearce Rotondi History.com
Will Elizabeth Be the Last Monarch?
Tim Stanley The New Republic
10 Odd Things About Presidents on Presidents' Day
Li Zhou Smithsonian


Tuesday, February 18
Exploring Significance of Battle of Iwo Jima
Mark Folse Naval History Magazine
Naval Institute's Expansive Look at Iwo Jima
United States Naval Institute
How Germany and Japan Could've Won
Miguel Faria RealClearHistory
Confederate Flag Led to Lincoln Murder
Michael Raab Cape Fear Living Magazine
Lessons From Jefferson Davis' Inauguration
David P. Weber The Hill
The Bible Helped Make Lincoln Great
Meir Soloveichik Wall Street Journal
The Rambunctious Boy Who Became Italy's First King
Awesome Stories
Japanese Doctors of Depravity
Christopher Hudson Daily Mail
Murder Touches Off War Over Cattle, Trade in Mexico
Legends of America
How Pluto Got Demoted as a Planet
The Economist


Wednesday, February 19
True Goal of Japan's Singapore Massacre
Hayashi Hirofumi Asia-Pacific Journal
How American Battlecruisers Came to Be
Edward Langer Military History Online
WW II's Big Week: Event-by-Event Timeline
Second World War History
What If: Reagan a Communist? Lincoln and Donner Party?
Ryan Menezes Cracked
Did Donner Party Survivors Really Eat Flesh?
Ann Japenga Los Angeles Times
They Voluntarily Gave Up Russian Throne
Georgy Manaev Russia Beyond the Headlines
Successful Societies Cause Themselves to Fail
Victor Davis Hanson National Review
History Explains Rising Tensions in North Korea
Aidan Foster-Carter The Diplomat
Poland Broke Enigma Code First
Sarah Knapton The Telegraph
How Conscription Works Around the World
Drew DeSilver Pew Research


Thursday, February 20
There Was No 'Victory' at Olustee
T.D. Allman The Daily Beast
O'Hare Becomes U.S. Navy's First Ace
History and Headlines
The Story of O'Hares and Chicago
Larry Offner St. Louis Magazine
An Island Turned Into Killing Field
Paul Kengor Grove City College
U.S. Army's Baptism by Fire in North Africa
Associated Press
WW II General Created Tank Warfare
Chris J. Hartley Warfare History Network
Facing the 'Fox' in the Desert
Brian John Murphy America in WWII
Glenn on 1st Earth Orbit: 'That View Is Tremendous!'
William Harwood CNET
By This Measure, John Tyler Was Best President
Brion McClanahan Townhall
A History of Scalping in the New World
Our Native Americans


Friday, February 21
Was USS Saratoga WW II's Toughest Ship?
History and Headlines
10 Things About Battle of Verdun
Evan Andrews History.com
Russia's 1st Tzar Far From 'Terrible'
Alexey Timofeychev Russia Beyond the Headlines
What You Didn't Know About 'Miracle on Ice'
Joe Posnanski Sports Illustrated
The Building of a Concentration Camp
Giuliana Tedeschi Yad Vashem
A Key Confederate Victory in New Mexico
Kennedy Hickman ThoughtCo.com
Washington Monument Wasn't Originally Two Colors
Mall History
'Madame Yale' Was 19th Century Health Fitness Guru
Emmeline Cline Smithsonian
Malcolm X Death: Theories and Facts
Garrett Felber The Guardian
Why Geniuses Are Total Jerks
Lawrence Siskind To Put It Bluntly


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