RealClearHistory Week of August 4, 2025 Archives

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Monday, August 4

“If Jefferson Was Wrong, America Is Wrong”

Rich Lowry The Coolidge Review

The Beginning of the End of the Revolutionary War

Andrew Fowler Yankee Institute

The Concept of Providence in the American Civil War

Isaac Tuttle Providence Mag

Two Personal Stories from the Atomic Bombings

David W. Wise RealClearHistory

Thai-Cambodian Conflict Has an Ancient History

Hannah Beech & Sun Narin NYT

Eisenhower, Patton and the Stain of the ‘Bonus Army’

Wyatt Kingseed Military Times

A Famous Battlefield Was Found 260 Years Later

Mary Ann Thomas Post-Gazette

Renaming of Military Bases Stirs Debate

Fernanda Figueroa Military.com

Inside the Battle Over ‘Napalm Girl’

Gary Knight Rolling Stone

Maya Descendants Are Reviving a Sacred Ballgame

Robin Catalano Smithsonian Mag

Ever Dream of Flying in a WWII Combat Plane?

Eric Adler Kansas City Star

What 1990s Internet History Tells Us About the AI Boom

Kate L. Flach Time

Workers Unearth Pre-Incan Tomb and 1,000-Year-Old Remains

Franklin Briceño AP

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, August 6

How We Took Saddam and His Airport by Surprise

Ryan McDermott RealClearHistory

Ayatollah Shariatmadari, Lost Alternative to Khomeini

Ayaan Karan Providence Mag

50 Years After Vietnam, One Sailor’s Memories Still Haunt

Suzanne Downing MRAK

30 Years Since Croatia's War of Independence

Zoran Arbutina Deutsche Welle

The Secret of George Washington’s Revolutionary Success

Eliot A. Cohen Atlantic

How Britain Went to War in 1914

Anthony Fletcher Historytoday

Surviving Hurricane Katrina: First-Hand Accounts

Dave Roos HISTORY

“If Jefferson Was Wrong, America Is Wrong”

Rich Lowry The Coolidge Review

The French Revolution Shouldn't Have Happened That Way

Simon Heffer Telegraph

How the Holocaust Happened in Plain Sight

Erin Blakemore NatGeo

A History of Home Improvements at the White House

Alex Kozul-Wright Al Jazeera

Memoirs Give Insight Into Life in 17th-Century England

Harriet Sherwood Guardian

The Roman Empire Offers Lessons for Trump

Kirk Freudenburg The Conversation

Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Celtic Settlement

Sonja Anderson Smithsonian Mag

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, August 8

How the Mississippi Burning Murders Sparked Change in the US

Myles Burke BBC

Avoiding the Nameless Grave—Civil War ID Tags

Don Troiani Warfare History Network

The Impact of the Enlightenment on the American Revolution

Kevin Braafladt ASC

American Rebels at Sea

Eric Jay Dolin AMERICAN HERITAGE

How the Battle for Norway in 1940 Saved Britain

Nick Hewitt HistoryExtra

Remembering the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

David Coleman Miller Center

The Gory History of Europeans Eating Mummies for Health

Erin Blakemore NatGeo

How Natural Disaster Shook Ancient Empires

Konstantine Panegyres The Conversation

Paul Newman, the Pacific, and the Atomic Bomb

Dave Kindy Military Times

A Complicated Founder's Totemic Power

Rich Lowry The Coolidge Review

Who Was This Swashbuckling Tudor Mercenary?

Graham Cornwell Smithsonian Mag

How the Radium Girls Forced Workplace Safety Reforms

Jordan Friedman HISTORY

12 Great Slave Escapes in US History

Joshua J. Mark World History Encyclopedia

The History of the Once-Controversial Car Seat

Gary Scales Time

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News