RealClearHistory Week of September 22, 2025 Archives

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Monday, September 22

Connecticut at the Battle of Antietam

Andrew Fowler Yankee Institute

Fifty Years After History’s Most Brutal Boxing Match

Vann R. Newkirk II The Atlantic

The Video Violence Dilemma

Aniko Bodroghkozy Time

Was the Garden of Eden Real? Archaeologists Weigh In

Candida Moss NatGeo

Fear and Uncertainty in the Headlines on 9/11

Valerie Suttee The War Horse

$700,000 of Gold Stolen from French History Museum

Angelique Chrisafis Guardian

Photo of Enslaved Man Now Flashpoint in Trump's Review

Trevor Hughes USA Today

The Chemistry of Revenge, from Burke to Bolton

Amity Shlaes The Coolidge Review

A Failed Assassination Plot Against Washington?

Claire Bellerjeau Smithsonian

What Destroyed the Lighthouse of Alexandria?

Tom Metcalfe HISTORY

The Controversial M3 Grease Gun

Patrick J. Chaisson Warfare History Network

McDonald's' Troubled History with Recycling

Saabira Chaudhuri Business Insider

Doctor Chamberlen’s Forceps Changed Childbirth

Alanna Skuse Historytoday

The History of the Fork

Darius von Guttner Sporzynski The Conversation

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, September 24

Nine Events That Led to the Civil War

Patrick J. Kiger HISTORY

Civil War Subs: A New Chapter in Naval Warfare

Eric Niderost Warfare History Network

This WWII POW Endured More Than 50 Years in Captivity

Stephen Ruiz Military.com

The Largest B-2 Bomber Mission in US History

Tanya Noury & Kellie Meyer The Hill

The Strategic Risks of a Korean War Peace Treaty

Glenn Scotfield 38North

Why Poland’s Border with Belarus Matters to the U.S.

Allen Frazier Military.com

The War Hawk Who Wasn’t

Philip Taubman & William Taubman The Atlantic

Babylon Was An Ancient Wonder. Today It’s a Very Different Story

Staff CTVNews

His Lab’s Ancient DNA Studies Are Rewriting History

Liz Mineo Harvard Gazette

San Diego's Forgotten Mid-Air Disaster

David Smollar RealClearHistory

The Chemistry of Revenge, from Burke to Bolton

Amity Shlaes The Coolidge Review

When Nazi Germany Imposed the Nuremberg Laws

Richard Nelsson The Guardian

The New Deal's Radical Uncertainty

James E. Hartley Law & Liberty

'Citizen Historians' Are Documenting the Smithsonian

Elizabeth Blair NPR

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, September 26

The Surprising Role Mexico Played in World War II

Sarah Pruitt HISTORY

Donald Trump is a Monument to America

Waters and Ellwanger RealClearHistory

Prosecuting Infidelity in Early New England

Israel Benporat Brill

Forged in the Ashes of WWII: The Origin Story of the UN

Leo Sands WaPo

Meet the Tuskegee Airman Who Inspired Generations

Amira Sweilem Military.com

How FDR Prepared America for WWII

Peter Kross Warfare History Network

How the Siege of the Alamo Won Texas

Joshua J. Mark World History Encyclopedia

When Chairman Mao's Heir Mysteriously Died

Mathew Lyons Historytoday

7 Brilliant Acts of Psychological Warfare in History

Mark Piesing HISTORY

From Seapower to Shining Seapower

Michael Lee Isonomia Quarterly

Ships That Made History and Turned Heads

Gabrielle Schmauderer Yahoo News

Did Nathan Hale Really Say *Those* Words?

Meilan Solly Smithsonian

The Chemistry of Revenge, from Burke to Bolton

Amity Shlaes The Coolidge Review

The Ancient History of Catholic Exorcisms

Melissa Sartore NatGeo

The Rapture, and Why TikTok Believes the End is Nigh

Philip C. Almond Conversation

The Curious Incident of the Dog in ‘The Night Watch’

Nina Siegal NYT

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News