RealClearHistory Week of January 16, 2023 Archives

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Monday, January 16

First Casualty of WW II? Actress Carole Lombard

Cynthia Littleton Variety

Lead Up and Start to Operation Desert Storm in Photos

ABC News

What Makes SEALs Want the Challenge?

Emily Sohn History.com

Defeat of Hitler and What Led Him to His Bunker

The History Place

Saddam's War to Terrorize Israel

Michael Omer-Man Jerusalem Post

Rise and Fall of Ivan the Terrible

Russiapedia

Rosa Luxemburg's Confusing Legacy

Siobhan Dowling Der Spiegel

'Don Quixote' the Foundation for Fiction

Bret McCabe Johns Hopkins University

From Geese to Sully: Miracle on the Hudson

William Langewiesche Vanity Fair

Killer Sated Sex Urges By Cooking, Eating Human Flesh

Allen McDuffee Grunge

Tuesday, January 17

Battle of Cowpens Had Outsized Effect on Colonists

British Battles

Where Are They? America's Lost Nuclear Bombs

Zaria Gorvett BBC Future

Annexation of Hawaii 'Manifest Destiny?'

Constitutional Rights Foundation

How Boston's 'Perfect Crime' Fell Apart

FBI

USS Fitzgerald Was Disaster Waiting to Happen

Geoff Ziezulewicz Navy Times

U.S. Island Land Grab Now a Money Pit

Thomas DiBacco Orlando Sentinel

Lessons Not Learned From L.A. Quake

John Schuppe NBC LA

Rams Return to LA Shouldn't Have Been Surprise

Kyra Vandiver Bleacher Report

Eisenhower's Military-Industrial Complex Lives On

NPR

Unveiling of First Corvette Was a Thrill

Andy Bolig ChevyHardCore

Wednesday, January 18

Some of What You Believe About WW II Isn't True

Olivia B. Waxman Time

It Was the Little Things That Killed Robert Falcon Scott

Cool Antarctica

A Wooden Deck in San Francisco Bay Changed Navy Flight

This Day in Aviation

Barbie's Path From Prep School to Butcher

Nikola Budanovic War History Online

Tyler Not the Worst President, But His Legacy Isn't Sexy

Constitution Center

Did FBI Try to Kill Marion Barry?

Steven Nelson US News & World Rpt

Rise and Rule of the German Empire

Bundestag.de

Captain Cook and Hawaiian Islands

William Westervelt Sacred Texts

Who Was R. Sargent Shriver?

Brett Zongker NBC News

Sanity, Morality, and the Banning of Sliced Bread

Diana Hubell Atlas Obscura

Thursday, January 19

Why the Union Army Had So Many Boy Soldiers

Plant & Clarke Smithsonian

9 Things You Didn't Know About Robert E. Lee

Larry Holzwarth History Collection

How MLK Embodied Our Founding Principles

Hans Zeiger RealClearPublicAffairs

All About Old West's Most Iconic Figures

Kyle Hoekstra History Hit

The Idea of a 'Precolonial Africa' Is Vacuous and Wrong

Olufemi Taiwo Aeon

Sandy Koufax Just Wanted to Be Regular Guy

Tom Verducci Sports Illustrated

Jungle Realm of the Snake Queens

Bridget Alex Archaeology

America's First Muslims Were Slaves

Dora Mekouar Voice of America

Ike and Truman's Strained Relationship on Inauguration

Daniel Vermilya NPS

Battle of the Three Kings: The Last Crusade

Comer Plummer III MilHistoryOnline

Friday, January 20

Who Murdered the Most People by Their Own Hand?

Alexis DeStout TFO

The Tudor Roots of Modern Billionaires’ Philanthropy

Nuri Heckler Smithsonian

DeGaulle: Selfish, Arrogant, 'Great'

Henrik Bering Hoover Institution

Order #1 Nearly Destroyed Russia's Army: What Was It?

Robert Wilde ThoughtCo

Lindbergh Took a Turn in World War II's Pacific Theater

Eyewitness to History

Ben Franklin on the Morality of Chess

Elliott Drago Jack Miller Center

Debunking Reagan-Iran Hostage Crisis Myths

Amanda Taub Vox

When the CIA Spied on American Citizens With Pigeons

Steven Ewin Atlas Obs

Fools at Court

Phillipa Vincent-Connolly History Today

Did Anastasia Survive the Massacre of the Romanovs?

Jonny Wilkes HistExtra

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