RealClearHistory Week of February 20, 2023 Archives

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Monday, February 20
Why Is Battle of Iwo Jima So Important to Marines?
Blake Stillwell Military.com
Kuribayashi's Brilliance Extended Battle at Iwo Jima
Joseph Alexander Army Times
Lincoln vs. Davis: Who Was Better?
Brian R. Dirck Essential Civil War Curriculum
Japan Unleashes Terror on Australia
Tom Frame Quadrant
Key Lessons From Humiliating WW II Defeat
Stephan Wilkinson History Net
This Chinese Leader Will Soon Be Forgotten
Cindy Yu The Spectator
Billy the Kid Was Fired Up for the Lincoln County War
Legends of America
Did Twain Cop Out in 'Huck Finn' Happy Ending?
Joy Lanzendorfer Mental Floss
Rocky Mountain Camps Revisited
Esmeralda Bermudez LA Times
How It All Fell Apart for Tiger Woods
Maureen Callahan New York Post


Tuesday, February 21
Germans Got What They Wanted at Verdun
Robert Bruce Army History
Original Video of Night Nazis Took Over MSG
Marshall Curry The Atlantic
Colorful Life of WW II's 1st Ace and His Mob-Connected Dad
St. Louis Magazine
How Confederates Didn't Win Southwest
Patrick Kelly-Fischer Emerging Civil War
This Confederate Victory Split Florida
American Battlefield Trust
Was USS Saratoga WW II's Toughest Ship?
History and Headlines
Rise and Fall of Billy Graham and His Empire
Stephen Prothero Politico
Day Adams Collapsed in the House
Ronald M. Johnson U.S. Capitol Historical Society
Is Communist Manifesto Still Relevant?
Paul Lewis New York Times
Hail to Our Forgotten Chiefs
Richard Lim RealClearPublicAffairs


Wednesday, February 22
Surprising Facts About U.S. 'Miracle on Ice'
Joe Posnanski Sports Illustrated
Quietest Room on Earth Freaks People Out
Jerusalem Post
Mexico's Buena Vista Disaster
Christopher Minster ThoughtCo.com
This Man Is WHY We 'Remember the Alamo!'
Kerry Byrne Fox News
A Bizarre Attempt to Kill Nixon
Daven Hiskey Today I Found Out
10 Richest Presidents in History
Dora Mekouar Voice of America
Why Russian Heir to Throne Spent Life in Prison
Georgy Manaev Russia Beyond
Coast-to-Coast Con Crumbles With Kidnapping
Staff Report All Things Considered
How FBI Finally Caught Ames
David Johnston New York Times
As War Evolves, So Has Purple Heart
Fred Borch Army Historical Foundation


Thursday, February 23
America Owes Its Independence to This Conman
Tom Clavin The History Reader
Getting on to Iwo Jima Its Own Challenge
Joseph Alexander National Park Service
Meet Marines in Iconic Iwo Jima Pic
M. Caltrider & J. Mandaville Coffee or Die Magazine
Britain Relied on Bible for This WW I Victory
Kari Rohde Patterns of Evidence
Japan's Bombing of Santa Barbara
John McKinney Los Angeles Times
Was There Ever Really a Battle of Los Angeles?
Jason Bellows Damn Interesting
A Nice Meal, a Kidnapping, and Castro's Rise
Laurence Edmondson ESPN
John Lee: The Man Who Couldn't Be Hanged
Robert Walsh Sword and Scale
Best President? Depends When You Ask
George Goethals The Conversation
America's Worst President Also Most Qualified
Jeff Jacoby Boston Globe


Friday, February 24
Here's How I Remember Patton
John D. Eisenhower American Heritage
Amputation Allowed This WW II Pilot to Become an Ace
We Are the Mighty
Russian Military Loves Its Cowboy Weapons
Travis Pike Sandboxx
Erich Hartmann: History's Greatest Fighter Ace
Aces of WW2
How to Define and Embrace Irregular Warfare
Mark Grdovic Small Wars Journal
What Zimmermann Telegram Said and How Code Was Cracked
Smithsonian
'I Was Resigned to the Fact I Was Going to Die'
Staff Report New York Times
Spanish King Crushes Coup Attempt
Bill Cemlyn-Jones The Guardian
Senselessness of Censoring Dahl: Focus Is All Wrong
Alison Stine Salon
These Soups Have Simmered for Decades, Centuries
Blair Mastbaum Atlas Obscura
Monday, February 27
Could Napoleon Have Won?
C.S. Forester The Atlantic
Fearsome Luftwaffe Crumbled Under Nazi Hubris
Victoria Taylor HistoryExtra
Will Exhumation Solve Reichstag Fire Mystery?
Philip Oltermann The Guardian
WW II: How Americans Left Germans Blinded by the Light
War Is Boring
NJ Was a Revolutionary War 'Hornets Nest'
David M. Zimmer NorthJersey.com
Crazy Weapons Born During Civil War
Francis Horton National Interest
Principled, Stubborn Carter Prioritized Democracy
J.L. McCoy The Conversation
A Look Into Unsolved Tragedies in Russian Mountains
Oleg Yegorov Russia Beyond
Tribes Took a Stand During Overlooked 71-Day Siege
Maya Rao Star-Tribune
Window Into Forgotten Founding Fathers
Larry Holzwarth History Collection
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