RealClearHistory Week of October 6, 2025 Archives

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Monday, October 6

Putting the Romanovs to Rest

Staff Meduza

U.S. Navy Submariner Rebuilding 1,400-Year-Old Longship

Archie Clarke CBS

What Sparked the Dawn of the Iron Age?

Tim McMillan The Debrief

The Rise of the Mega-Influencer

Phillip Dolitsky & Luke Moon Engelsberg Ideas

A Revolution Both Radical and Conservative

Yuval Levin The Coolidge Review

Expedition Reveals WWII Shipwrecks for the First Time

Tom Metcalfe NatGeo

How Kenya and Zambia's History Explains Election Violence

Staff The Conversation

The Century-Long Search for the Loch Ness Monster

Greg McKevitt BBC

The Overshadowed Ancient Empire that Rivaled Rome

James Osborne HistoryExtra

How Grave Robbing Ignited a Deadly Riot in New York City

Jack Tamisiea HISTORY

How the 'Gag Rule' Aimed to Erase Dissent

Bob Crawford Time

The Captivating Story of the Dionne Quintuplets

Jordan Friedman Smithsonian

Fearsome Artillery of the Civil War

John D. Gresham Warfare History Network

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, October 8

12 Failed Amendments That Could've Reshaped History

Greg Daugherty Smithsonian

WWII Soldier Sacrificed to Save Troops From Bitter End

Staff Military Times

Civil War Stories: Libby Prison's 'Lottery of Death'

James M. Powels WHN

How Civil War Deaths Advanced America’s Funeral Industry

Crystal Ponti HISTORY

3-Year-Old Finds Live WWII Grenade in Front Yard

Emily Mae Czachor CBS

USS Arizona Oil Leak Studied 84 Years After Pearl Harbor

Joe Dwinell Boston Herald

Did the WWI Christmas Truce Football Match Really Happen?

Peter Doyle RTÉ

The Return of America’s Tariff Gamble

Adeline Von Drehle Substack

5 Revolutions in History That Shaped Our Modern Day

Vinay Prasad Sharma WION

A Revolution Both Radical and Conservative

Yuval Levin The Coolidge Review

The Endurance Wasn’t Built for Ice — And Shackleton Knew

Mindy Weisberger CNN

Egypt Opens One of the Valley of the Kings' Largest Tombs

Kieran Burke DW

Fallen Civilizations Prove: Climate Warnings Matter

Jay Silverstein The Conversation

To Crack Modern Populism, Revisit the 17th Century

Adrian Wooldridge Bloomberg

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, October 10

The History of Government Shutdowns

Rachel Treisman NPR

Photo Essay: Camping With the Union Army of the Potomac

Kevin Hymel WHN

Vietnam War Records Are Reframing Operation Babylift

Nina Strochlic Smithsonian

The Integration of the Navy

Donald M. Bishop Trinity Tripod

A Revolution Both Radical and Conservative

Yuval Levin The Coolidge Review

The Turbulent History of the Union Jack

Neil Armstrong BBC

The Contentious History of the Passport

Giulia Pines NatGeo

AI Hype Echoes a Boom and Bust of the 1920s

Cameron Shackell The Conversation

CBS Has Been in Conservative Sights for Decades

A.J. Bauer Time

Tariff Trap: Historical Lessons for Trump’s Trade War

Adeline Von Drehle Substack

Who Was the 'Witch of Buchenwald?'

Dave Roos HISTORY

America and the Inner Self

Anton Cebalo Substack

A Lost Ancient Language May Be Hiding in Plain Sight

Andrew Paul Popular Science

AD-X2: When US Politicians Took on Science

Joseph D. Martin Historytoday

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News