RealClearHistory Week of May 5, 2025 Archives

RealClearHistory AM Update

Monday, May 5

How One Man Became the US's Most Damaging Double Agent

Myles Burke BBC

Sweden's Daring 'White Bus' Rescue

Louise Nordstrom & Louis Chahuneau France24

Camping With the Union Army of the Potomac

Kevin Hymel Warfare History Network

I Listened as the Viet Cong Killed My Replacement

Stanley Ross The War Horse

Muhammad Ali’s Little-Known Role as a Hostage Negotiator

Aaron Randle HISTORY

Then & Now: Western Disunity During War

John F. Harnes History Rinse & Repeat

The 50 Years that Made America

Max Edling History Today

The First Maps of the American Revolution

Edwin S. Grosvenor AMERICAN HERITAGE

The Nameless Native Who Haunted a Historian

Martha A. Sandweiss Smithsonian Mag

The History Behind the 2025 Met Gala Theme

Olivia B. Waxman Time

The Great Exhibition of 1851

Mark Cartwright World History Encyclopedia

Empathy, Democracy, and Political Thought

Elliott Drago Jack Miller Center

Why the Kentucky Derby Loves its Hats

Sydney Combs NatGeo

The Story of California Penal Reform

Ana Kasparian RealClearInvestigations

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, May 7

The Room Where Nazi Germany Surrendered

Jon Henley The Guardian

The Strangest Fight in World War II

Nicholas Slayton Task & Purpose

The Expedition That Proved Antarctica Was a Continent

Jordan Friedman HISTORY

The Battle of Fort Myers

B.D. Green News-press

The Men Who Broke Out of Alcatraz With a Spoon

Myles Burke BBC

One Frenchman and the American Revolution

Miguel A. Faria RealClearHistory

Martial Arts in Medieval Japan

Mark Cartwright World History Encyclopedia

The Road to War with Japan

John Wukovits Warfare History Network

A Glimpse into the Misunderstood History of Geisha

Julia Shiota & Kin Coedel NatGeo

The History of Women in Combat

Sonner Kehrt The War Horse

The 3 Pillars of the American Idea

Robert Curry RealClearHistory

These Archaeological Sites Are a Portal to Ancient Egypt

Staff Smithsonian Mag

Anna Jagiellon, Queen of Poland

Darius von Guttner Sporzynski The Conversation

On the Record: Music Before Mass Production

Eva Rodriguez Historytoday

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, May 9

WWII Survivors Share their Stories

Kate Connolly & Caroline Davies The Guardian

Himmler's Capture

Staff Warfare History Network

See the Scenes as the Germans Surrendered in WWII

James Powel USA Today

VE Day 80: European and American Attitudes Towards WWII

Matthew Smith YouGov

Sons of Great Escape Survivors to Retrace WWII March

George Litchfield BBC News

VE Day at 80: How U.S.-Europe Relations are Changing

Christoph Hasselbach DW

A Look at India and Pakistan's History of Strife

Staff Reuters

The Enduring Geopolitical Tragedy of India’s Partition

Ved Shinde Providence Mag

Why Do Popes Change Their Names?

Lesley Kennedy HISTORY

The Louisiana Purchase and Presidential Power

Frank Cogliano RealClearHistory

The Daring Rescue of John Doy

Joshua J. Mark World History Encyclopedia

These Countries Banned Music—But Artists Still Found a Way

Claire Turrell NatGeo

The History of Chicago's Wrigley Field

John Lingan Smithsonian Mag

We All Scream for the History of Ice Cream

Alexander Lee Historytoday

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News