RealClearHistory Week of April 7, 2025 Archives

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Monday, April 7

Breaking Down the Door to Europe in WWII

Flint Whitlock Warfare History Network

Stalin and the Communist Party in the 1920s

Norman Pereira Historytoday

Benjamin Franklin’s Scandalous Praise of Vanity

J. Michael Hoffpauir RealClearHistory

How Trump's Tariffs Compare to Previous U.S. Tariffs

Yilin Wang Time

An Air Force I Didn’t Know Existed

Mark Miller The War Horse

The Irish War Hero Turned World-Famous Mercenary

Staff warhistoryonline

How Cleopatra's Love Affairs Shaped Ancient Egypt's Fate

Staff HistoryExtra

The Mysterious Disappearance of Flight 19

Evan Andrews HISTORY

How Booker’s Record-Long Senate Speech Compares

Frances Vinall WaPo

Ten Exceptional Ancient Elephants

Riley Black Smithsonian Mag

A Firsthand Account of the Middle Passage

Joshua J. Mark World History Encyclopedia

Maximilien Robespierre, Tyrant

Miguel A. Faria RealClearHistory

The American Dream Is Far From Over

Jack Miller RealClearPolitics

The Real Truth Behind the Inventor of S’mores

Dustin Renwick NatGeo

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, April 9

Echoes of Lexington and Concord

Richard Alan Ryerson Law & Liberty

The WWII Aircraft Carriers in the Great Lakes

Clare Fitzgerald warhistoryonline

One Weird WWII Propaganda Myth About Carrots

K. Annabelle Smith Smithsonian Mag

Madame le General—Doctor, Pilot, Hero

Charles Morgan Evans The War Horse

Athens and the Battle that Changed History

Martin Leavitt Warfare History Network

The Most Understood Conflict in History? The Korean War

Staff MSN

Henry III: England's Most Disastrous Reign

James Osborne HistoryExtra

A Century-Long Battle Over the Census is Brewing

Brendan A. Shanahan Time

Why FDR’s Four-Term Presidency Led to the 22nd Amendment

Petula Dvorak WaPo

California’s Golden Road to Decline

Joel Kotkin RealClearInvestigations

Competing Theologies Drove India’s Nuclear Decisions

Bill Drexel Providencemag

Dance Music and Social Change

Katie Milestone & Simon Morrison The Conversation

Ancient DNA Reveals History of the Sahara

James Ashworth Natural History Museum

10 Inventions From the Han Dynasty That Changed History

Patrick J. Kiger HISTORY

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, April 11

Why Did Southern Colonies Join the Revolution?

Andrew Lawler Smithsonian Mag

Lesser Known Stories from the American Revolution

Staff MSN

How Tariffs Helped Spark the American Revolution

Dwayne Yancey Cardinal News

This Man Spent all of WWII as a POW in Japan

Robert F. Dorr Warfare History Network

The True Story of Appomattox

Elizabeth R. Varon Time

A Veteran’s Journey to Learn About a Fallen Friend

David Nelson The War Horse

Why Did the Vikings' Violent Raids Begin?

Staff HistoryExtra

15 Forgotten Military Campaigns That Changed the World

Ace Vincent Go2Tutors

How the US Dropped Four Nuclear Bombs on Spain in 1966

Myles Burke BBC

Trump Tariffs Conjure Specter of Smoot-Hawley Act

Andrew Jeong WaPo

The Black Legend of the House of Dudley

Joanne Paul Historytoday

How Timbuktu Flourished During the Golden Age of Islam

Kai Mora HISTORY

The Opaque Origins of Homer’s Odyssey

Daniel Mendelsohn LitHub

Where Food and Art History Meet in the Louvre

Elaine Sciolino NatGeo

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News