RealClearHistory Week of September 1, 2025 Archives

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Monday, September 1

How These Navy Men Survived After Sinking 240 Feet

Stephen Ruiz Military.com

German Luger, the Most Famous Pistol in Modern Warfare

Blaine Taylor WHN

Letters from Architect of Pearl Harbor Attack Revealed

Staff Stars and Stripes

What Makes SEAL Team Six So Dangerous?

Staff National Interest

What Was the Department of War?

Patty Nieberg Task & Purpose

Dismissing "All Men Are Created Equal"

Christopher Cox The Coolidge Review

Katrina's History Is America’s History

Andy Horowitz In These Times

Retired General Recalls Katrina's Chaos and Lessons Unlearned

Reena Advani NPR

How Levee Failures Made Katrina a Bigger Disaster

Sarah Pruitt HISTORY

Is St. George’s Flag a Symbol of Patriotism or Nationalism?

Olivia Kemp CNN

Could You Survive the Viking Frontier? The Dark Reality

James Osborne HistoryExtra

The Kremlin’s Factory of Resentment

Jaroslaw Kuisz Foreign Policy

White House Names Smithsonian Exhibits it Objects To

Dominique Moody NBC4

Why is the Bayeux Tapestry a Big Deal?

Mark Cartwright World History Encyclopedia

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, September 3

Do New Generations View WWII as a "Good" War?

Paul Moreno RealClearHistory

The WWII Bomber That Cost More Than the Atomic Bomb

Stephen Dowling BBC

How a Misplaced Signature Caused an Incident During WWII

Henry Larson NPR

How the Allied Occupation Changed Japan

Michael Macarthur Bosack Japan Times

Why Didn't Stalin Ever Invade Hokkaido?

Eric Johnston The Japan Times

These American Mercenaries from WWII Are Revered in China

Brad Lendon CNN

China’s Military Parade: Show of Strength, Reminder of History

Staff Al Jazeera

Model Officers: The Components of Command

Henrik Bering New Criterion

The Volatile History of Flag Burning in the US

Dave Roos HISTORY

Dismissing "All Men Are Created Equal"

Christopher Cox The Coolidge Review

Did Pyramids Really Have Booby Traps in Ancient Egypt?

Serena Love Conversation

Ancient DNA Shows What Spread the Farming Revolution

Andrei Ionescu Earth

How Climate Change Triggered the French Revolution

Mihai Andrei ZME Science

Cambridge Historian Seeks Recognition for First English King

Helen Burchell BBC

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, September 5

The 1878 Act That Barred Federal Troops From States

Dave Roos HISTORY

The Prussian Who Trained Patriots at Valley Forge

Richard Bell Smithsonian

Mulberry Harbors: The Allied Secret Weapon at Normandy

Blaine Taylor WHN

Legendary Marine Finally Promoted to Sergeant at 100

Jeff Schogol Task & Purpose

The Grandson of a Klan Wizard Wrestles With Family History

Omari Daniels WaPo

Vietnam's Power, Before The War

Christopher Goscha Historytoday

During the Vietnam War, Books Offered an Escape

Ed Meagher The War Horse

WWII's Dangerous Legacy in the Pacific

Bryan G. Fry & Stacey Pizzino The Conversation

It Was Lonely During WWII. People Coped Via Letters

Emma Carson Conversation

The Clever Trick That Destroyed Paganism in Europe

James Osborne HistoryExtra

The 1957 Homosexuality Report That Divided the UK

Myles Burke BBC

Dismissing "All Men Are Created Equal"

Christopher Cox The Coolidge Review

What Was the Neolithic Revolution?

Erin Blakemore NatGeo

What's on Display at D.C.'s American History Museum?

Calvin Woodward AP

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News