RealClearHistory Week of July 21, 2025 Archives

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Monday, July 21

The Dark History That Predates Trump's 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Antonio Ramirez Time

50 Years of Cyprus Divided

Ioannis D. Stefanidis Historytoday

UNESCO Marks of Khmer Rouge Killing Sites for 'Reflection'

Chantha Lach Reuters

Why Nazis Stole a Piece of the Bayeux Tapestry

Millie Horton-Insch The Conversation

Why Spies Parachuted into Northern Australia in WWII

Staff ABC News

Was Calvin Coolidge Native American?

The Editors The Coolidge Review

When Jackson Confounded the Yankees

Brooke C. Stoddard Warfare History Network

A Look at the Beliefs and History of the Druze, a Religious Sect

Mariam Fam AP

When One Slave, Biddy, Sued for Freedom

Katie Hickman AMERICAN HERITAGE

The Transatlantic Zeppelins: A Golden Age of Air Travel

Mark Cartwright WHE

When Da Vinci Built a Robotic Lion to Impress the French

Crystal Ponti HISTORY

This Medieval ‘Apocalypse’ Left a Surprising Legacy

James Osborne HistoryExtra

Early Americans Were Obsessed With Genealogy, Too

Karin Wulf Smithsonian Mag

Risking Strategic Prioritization for the UK and USA

Eamonn Bellin Providence Mag

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, July 23

How a Daydream Helped a Marine Make it Through Vietnam

Steve Hartman CBS

How WWII Brought About the Normalization of Tattoos

Claire Barrett Military Times

WWII POWs Played Monopoly to Win Their Freedom

John Kennedy New York Post

5 Things You Might Not Know About the Korean War

Brad Lendon CNN

What Nazi Comparisons Reveal About America Today

Daniel Magilow Conversation

Did Edmund Burke Support the Revolution?

Bradley J. Birzer Imaginative Conservative

A Revolutionary War Tour of New York

By James Barron The New York Times

Hunting Heretics: Inside the Medieval Inquisition

Joshua Rice Historytoday

Inside Indiana’s ‘Best-Kept Secret:’ Historical Markers

Madelyn Hanes WTHI-TV

Was Calvin Coolidge Native American?

The Editors The Coolidge Review

Why the 'Virgin Queen' Never Married

Neil Armstrong BBC

How US 'Dollar Princesses' Invaded British High Society

Erin Blakemore HISTORY

Here's How to Research Your Ancestors

Staff Smithsonian Mag

A 900-Year-Old Typo May Unravel a Chaucer Mystery

Mindy Weisberger CNN

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News