RealClearHistory Week of July 28, 2025 Archives

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Monday, July 28

This Edit Improved the Declaration of Independence

J. French Hill Coolidge Review

Sometimes, Legal History's Victors Start as Losers

Anastasia Boden RealClearHistory

U.S. Civil War Reenactors Are Going Into Battle Against AI

Luis Prada VICE

AI Transforms the Deciphering of Ancient Texts

Garry Manners Ancient Origins

WWII Plane Salvaged From Lake Flies Again After 80 Years

Greg Copeland KING5

One of the Deadliest Fighter Aircrafts of WWI

Lillian Ali Smithsonian Mag

How the Versailles Treaty Led to the Second World War

Amir Ali The Indian Express

Maybe the Vietnam War Shouldn’t Be a Rock Musical

Tim Teeman The Daily Beast

The Fall of the East India Company

Mark Cartwright World History Encyclopedia

The Incredible Story of the World's Youngest Photojournalist

Staff BBC

Why This Roman Emperor Murdered His Own Mother

James Osborne HistoryExtra

The Lost History of the Aztecs

Dr. Nathaniel T. Jeanson Answers In Genesis

The Great Destroyer: Cyrus, Babylon, and Jerusalem

Lynette Mitchell Historytoday

Tank Rides and Vets at Gettysburg's Military Weekend

Harrison Jones Evening Sun

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, July 30

Elite Units of the American Civil War

Christopher Miskimon Warfare History Network

How War Drove the First Man to Hike the Appalachian Trail

Crystal Ponti HISTORY

Last Soldiers of an Imperial Army Have a Warning

Martin Fackler & Ko Sasaki NYT

Lenin's Tomb is Attracting a New Surge of Visitors

Charles Maynes NPR

Should Museums Still Display Mummified Remains?

George Torr BBC News

Inside the Library of Congress’s Collection

Ron Cassie Washingtonian

This Edit Improved the Declaration of Independence

J. French Hill Coolidge Review

The Pony Express to Anthrax: How USPS Shaped a Nation

Susan Haigh Military.com

The 1936 ‘Bum Blockade’ of Los Angeles

Olatunji Osho-Williams Smithsonian Mag

The Socialist Mayor Who Came 100 Years Before Mamdani

Andrew Morriss Time

When a Man Traveled the World Collecting 60,000 Autographs

Petula Dvorak WaPo

The Superstitions That Were Believed to Protect Sailors

Karl Bell The Conversation

The Fall of Robespierre

Colin Jones Historytoday

What Was it Like to Live in Old Babylon?

Daniel Justel Vicente NatGeo

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, August 1

50 Stunning Photographs of WWII

Mark Cartwright World History Encyclopedia

Learning from an Overlooked Iraq War Battle

Ryan McDermott American Greatness

Jimmy Hoffa Vanished 50 Years Ago. The Mystery Endures

Don Gonyea NPR

The Fourth Crusade’s Warning for a Modern Military

Charles Yost RealClearHistory

Ford GPW: The Forgotten Military Jeep

Scott Murdock Military.com

The Violent Viking Encounter with Native Americans

James Osborne HistoryExtra

Just How Bad was Bad King John?

Julio Rubén Valdés Miyares NatGeo

This Edit Improved the Declaration of Independence

J. French Hill Coolidge Review

When Charles de Gaulle was Sentenced to Death

Mathew Lyons Historytoday

How ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ Made Johnny Cash a Hero

Raj Tawney Smithsonian Mag

How an F1 Driver Survived a Devastating Grand Prix Crash

Myles Burke BBC

How Politicians Banned Self-Serve Gas for Years

Laura Williams The Daily Economy

The Last of Great Global Political Thrillers?

Mark Tooley Providence Mag

How the Shopping Cart Went From Failure to Fixture

Ratha Tep HISTORY

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News