RealClearHistory Week of April 21, 2025 Archives

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Monday, April 21

The History and Origins of Easter

Staff HistoryExtra

Why the Prague Spring was Doomed to Failure

Ilana Seelinger Historytoday

Easter Eggs Have Been Decorated for Thousands of Years

Staff AP News

Easter in Vietnam: Eggs, Orphans, and Warm Beer

Ted Engelmann The War Horse

Did this Woman Help Launch the American Revolution?

Petula Dvorak WaPo

Why the Candy Bar Market Exploded After WWI

Jessica Pearce Rotondi HISTORY

The Battle that Brought a Fence to the Southern Border

Staff Military.com

The Forgotten Battle of Menotomy

Michael Ruderman AMERICAN HERITAGE

The Spy Who Won Bull Run

David Alan Johnson Warfare History Network

Buried Treasure Enticed Americans to Florida

Greg Daugherty Smithsonian Mag

Trump's Tariffs May Risk Access to This Critical Mineral

Jacob Beckert Time

The History of Presidents Defying the Courts

Staff NBC News

Why Writers and Filmmakers Can't Get Enough of Dragons

Kelly Faircloth NatGeo

A History of Guacamole

Paul Lenz Histories

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, April 23

Drama at the Old North Bridge

Rick Atkinson AMERICAN HERITAGE

The Bay of Pigs Invasion

Michael Dunne Historytoday

What Happened at Lexington and Concord?

Julian Humphrys HistoryExtra

The Fight for the Key to Normandy

Jon Latimer Warfare History Network

What the Life of a Navy Fighter Pilot Really Looks Like

Stephen Ruiz Military.com

The Navy May Revive this Forgotten Alaskan Base

Patty Nieberg Task & Purpose

Looking Back at 20 Years of YouTube

Amelia Tait The Guardian

Why America Builds Monuments

Jennifer Conner Modern Age

The Making of the American Fiscal State

Ajay K. Mehrotra & John Fabian Witt Time

Alfred Nobel's Invention of Dynamite Reshaped the World

Christopher Klein HISTORY

Eight Historic Moments at the Waldorf Astoria

Jaclyn Greenberg Smithsonian Mag

3,000-Year-Old City Holds Secrets of Royal Past

Emma Frederickson Pop Mechanics

What Ancient Housing Reveals About Human History

Staff Scitechdaily

Webinar on the French v. American Revolutions

Caitlin Nocera Center For Civil Society

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, April 25

Pope Francis, a Pope for the People, Dies at 88

Melissa Sartore NatGeo

Here's What Happens After a Pope Dies

Nige Tassell HistoryExtra

Expect the Unexpected From the Papal Conclave

Christopher M. Bellitto Time

5 Sacred Papal Symbols and Their Significance

Dave Roos HISTORY

Lessons from Early America’s Tariff Wars

John C. Pinheiro Law & Liberty

The Carter Presidency and the Energy Crisis

Daniel Yergin AMERICAN HERITAGE

Debates Between Government Branches Go Way Back

Howell Keiser RealClearHistory

Paul Revere Wasn’t the Only Midnight Rider

Ellen Wexler Smithsonian Mag

A Second Sumter: The Struggle for Pensacola

Eric Niderost Warfare History Network

5 Great Presidential Starts — And 5 Historically Bad Ones

Nicole Hemmer Vox

WWII Dive Bomber Found on Pacific Floor

Mark Price Military.com

How Fake Hitler Diaries Fooled the British Press

Myles Burke BBC

Martialists and the "Arts of Mars"

John Clements The Arma

Sudan’s Third Revolution

James Copnall Historytoday

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News