Week of August 17, 2020 Archives

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Monday, August 17
Undoing of George Patton
Michael Reynolds Warfare History Network
Wainwright Thought He'd Come Home in Disgrace
Steve Balestrieri SOFREP
Civil War: What Was the Dakota Uprising?
Minnesota Historical Society
Scandalous Surrender of Fort Detroit
Robert McNamara ThoughtCo.com
Northwest 255: Story of the Sole Survivor
Mirror
Life and Death Turned on Pure Luck
Steven Churm Los Angeles Times
Cleveland Shortstop Ray Chapman Killed By a Pitch
New York Times
Coffee, Fish and History of Pike Place Market
Christopher Reynolds Los Angeles Times
Robert Fulton's First Steamboat Voyage
Eyewitness to History
Inside Look at Elvis Presley's Last Hours
Robert Fontenot LiveAbout.com


Tuesday, August 18
Egypt's Deserts Were Once Lush, and Key to Country
Ed Whelan Ancient Origins
Starlite Starts Off War in Vietnam
Col. Rod Andrews U.S. Marine Corps
Genghis Khan Was Ruthless, But Was a Unifying Force
Mental Floss
Germany Has a Museum of Spurned Monuments
Daniela Blei Atlas Obscura
When Reagan Took On Gaddafi
Robert Kimmitt Washington Times
What Was the Jay Treaty?
Mount Vernon
Life for Planners of Failed Coup
Ron Synovitz Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Mayhem in Korea's Bowling Alley
Uzal Entand Military History
Bird vs. Magic Changed the NBA
Mark Bechtel Sports Illustrated
Who Was Really the First to Fly?
Jeff Scott Aerospace Web


Wednesday, August 19
WW II: Why Romania Joined Axis
Boris Egorov Russia Beyond the Headlines
When the U.S. Helped Stifle a Democracy
Lawrence Wu NPR
The Gulf War Ended Too Soon
Paul Wolfowitz Wall Street Journal
Gunslinger 'Never Killed Anyone Who Didn't Need Killing'
Famous Texans
Killing Their Parents in Cold Blood
Dominick Dunne Vanity Fair
How Did 'Old Ironsides' Get Its Name?
Eyewitness to History
Debunking Myths About Prague Spring
Jan Richter Prague Post
America and the Armenian Genocide
Charlie Laderman War on the Rocks
Yellowstone's Devastation and Rebirth
Michael Winerip New York Times
Top 10 Most Evil Women in History
Nicola Porrill Top 10 Zen


Thursday, August 20
Leon Trotsky Murdered With Ice Pick
Richard Cavendish History Today
How Trotsky's Assassin Became Ideological Robot
G. Jaramillo Rojas On Cuba News
Era of U.S. Involvement in Middle East Begins
Bruce Riedel Brookings Institute
Cartier's Voyages in North America
Chronicles of America
Prague Spring in Graphic, Moving Photos
Alan Taylor The Atlantic
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Britannica
Nat Turner's Children of Darkness
Stephen Oates American Heritage
14 Cases of Kids Who Murdered Their Parents
Jim Goad Thought Catalog
Where Did 'Going Postal' Come From?
Jeff Mullin Oklahoma State University
American Football Got Its Start in Medieval Times
Daily History


Friday, August 21
Alexander the Great's Stunning Victory Streak
Jim Stempel War History Online
Civil War's Most Terrible Atrocity
Kristen Epps Civil War on the Western Border
In Sports and War: 10 Lopsided Victories
History and Headlines
England's Century of Bloodshed and Chaos
Mark Stoyle BBC
Politics and the Post Office
Ryan Ellis MIT Reader
Chemical Weapons, Cover-Up and Cancer
Jennet Conan Smithsonian
Beating Britain on the High Seas
Alfred Loomis American Heritage
Debunking Banestre Tarleton Myths
John Knight Journal of the American Revolution
Why Nolan Ryan Is Overrated
Rob Neyer ESPN
America's Latest Suicide Attempt
Francis P. Sempa RealClearHistory
Monday, August 24
Revelations, Reality of 3,096 Days in Captivity
Jon Ronson The Guardian
10 Things About WW I's Battle of Mons
Tom Ames History Hit
Valentino's Appeal? Sex and Nothing More
Pamela Hutchinson The Guardian
The German Officer Who Saved Paris
Kelly Bell World War II Mag
Pete Rose -- and Shoeless Joe -- Should Be Reinstated
David Hill Fansided
Decades Later, Many Russians Miss USSR
Seth Mydans NY Times
The Forgotten State of Franklin
Kat Eschner Smithsonian
Were Medieval Cities as Filthy as We Think?
Elise Kjørstad ScienceNorway
Napoleon's Adventures in Egypt
John Rickard History of War
Was Fannie Farmer Even a Good Cook?
New England Historical Society


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