RealClearHistory Week of August 25, 2025 Archives

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Monday, August 25

Last American Fighter Ace From WWII Dies at 103

Nicholas Slayton Task & Purpose

America's Most Overlooked, Deadly WWII Campaign

James Osborne HistoryExtra

Theodore Roosevelt, A Precursor to Trump

Amity Shlaes The Coolidge Review

A Rough Guide to Richard Nixon's Conspiracy Theories

Ken Hughes Miller Center

Have We Forgotten the Lessons of Katrina's Costs?

Greg Allen NPR

Before Katrina, There was the Great Levee Breach of 1849

Dave Roos HISTORY

The Forgotten, Revolutionary-Era Edenton Tea Party

Aurora Martínez Smithsonian

Gardening in Salonika: WWI in the Balkans

John W. Osborn Jr. Warfare History Network

Wars of Annihilation: Not Mere Memories

Victor Davis Hanson AMERICAN HERITAGE

The Brink's-Mat Robbery: Britain's Biggest Bullion Heist

Mark Cartwright WHE

The Norman Conquest Wasn’t a Disaster For England

Matthew Wilcox The Spectator

When Summer Meant Sea Serpents

Karl Bell Historytoday

How the Racist Study of Skulls Gripped Scientists

Elise Smith The Conversation

A History of Blue Jeans

Paul Lenz Histories

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, August 27

Taiwan, China, World War Two and its Aftermath

Reuters Yahoo News

After Hiroshima: The US Occupation of Japan

Christopher Harding Historytoday

Union Commander Horace Porter's Astonishing Career

Richard H. Owens WHN

The Irish Liberator Helped Liberate America’s Enslaved

Christian E. O'Connell WaPo

Theodore Roosevelt, A Precursor to Trump

Amity Shlaes The Coolidge Review

The Warsaw Uprising: 63 Days of Tragedy and Glory

Filip Styczynski Providence

Cutty Sark: The Fastest Ship in the World

Mark Cartwright World History Encyclopedia

The Man Who Turned The Beatles into Superstars

Myles Burke BBC News

How Renaissance Fairs Became America’s Favorite Fantasy

Kelly Faircloth NatGeo

The Last 48 Hours of an East German ‘Misfit’

Magdalena Miecznicka FT

Was a Steam-Powered Robot Really Built in 1868?

Betsy Golden Kellem HISTORY

Neolithic Tooth Points to the Origins of Stonehenge

Rudy Molinek Smithsonian

A Lesson Learned From Hurricane Katrina: Save the Animals

Nathan Rott NPR

The Mayflower's Place in History

Nathaniel Philbrick AMERICAN HERITAGE

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, August 29

D.C.'s Unique History and Why Presidents Control its Police

Staff PBS News

Times the National Guard Has Been Deployed, and Why

Alia Chughtai Al Jazeera

The Story of the Last Two Navajo Code Talkers

Rita Omokha NatGeo

The Enduring Debates Over Dropping the A-Bombs

Phillip Dolitsky Military Strategy

Why Don't We Call it a ‘Department of War' Anymore?

Andrew Jeong WaPo

101st Airborne Fight for Hamburger Hill

Robert L. Durham Warfare History Network

A Nazi Looted a Jewish Home. Their Heirs Connect

Robert Philpot Times of Israel

Theodore Roosevelt, A Precursor to Trump

Amity Shlaes The Coolidge Review

History Has Dealt Ukraine a Bad Hand Time and Time Again

Nathan Hodge CNN

The Issue with Auschwitz’s New Digital Camp Replica

Emily-Rose Baker Conversation

Plundered Belongings Returned to a Lakota Community

Tim Madigan Smithsonian

The Woman Who Swam From Europe to Africa

Nate Barksdale HISTORY

Ancient Artifacts Lifted Out of Mediterranean

Hadani Ditmars The Art Newspaper

Lenin's Flirtation with Capitalism

Mark Cartwright World History Encyclopedia

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News