RealClearHistory Week of December 15, 2025 Archives

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Monday, December 15

What Presidential Rankings Get Wrong

Steven F. Hayward The Coolidge Review

What We Know About the American Troops in Syria

Jin Yu Young NYT

Rare But Deadly: A History of Mass Shootings in Australia

Staff ABC

How Chinese is Taiwan?

Michael Reilly History Today

The One-Eyed Sniper Who Fought 1000 Germans, Alone

Allen Frazier Military.com

The Desperate WWII Island Fight that Went Unnoticed

Nathan N. Prefer WHN

Timur: The Brutal and Forgotten Conqueror of Central Asia

Mark Cartwright WHE

How Revolutionaries Seized Control of Russia

Gary Saul Morson Law & Liberty

How a Near-Shipwreck Inspired Tons of Disaster Movies

Robert Klara Smithsonian

When 'It's a Wonderful Life' Came Under FBI Scrutiny

Christopher Klein HISTORY

Why Ancient Egyptians Needed the Flooding of the Nile

Núria Castellano NatGeo

Found: Huge Undersea Wall Dating From 5000 BC

Hugh Schofield BBC News

The Baffling Ways of Ancient Romans

James Osborne HistoryExtra

David McCullough and the Study of History

Hans Zeiger RealClearEducation

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, December 17

Why Hitler Declared War on the United States

Gerhard L. Weinberg Military Times

The Tragedy of Force Z and a British Blow to Morale

Andy Boyd History Today

William "Wild Bill" Donovan: America's Spymaster in WWII

Peter Kross WHN

How My Dad Escaped the Nazis and Saved His Parents

Claudia M. Gold Boston Globe

The Pernicious Myth That America Doesn’t Win Wars

Mike Nelson RealClearDefense

What Presidential Rankings Get Wrong

Steven F. Hayward The Coolidge Review

What if Napoleon Had Won?

Boyd Tonkin UnHerd

All in the Family: A Lesson for Television

Oscar Winberg Time

The 1950 Heist to Reclaim the Ancient Stone of Destiny

Greg McKevitt BBC

The History of Christmas Celebrations

Mark Cartwright World History Encyclopedia

American History, Told Through Christmas Trees

Meghan Bartels Scientific American

How Judith Became the Hanukkah Heroine

Elizabeth Yuko HISTORY

Did the Aztec Civilisation Collapse? It Isn’t So Simple

James Osborne HistoryExtra

Archaeologists Find Oldest Evidence of Fire-Making

Carl Zimmer NYT

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, December 19

A Forgotten Sacrifice During the Battle of the Bulge

Allen Frazier Military.com

The Largest Comebacks in College Football Playoff History

Gabriel Jackson NCAA

The History of Patrolling the Caribbean for Drugs

Sonner Kehrt The War Horse

The Arab Invasion of North Africa: Islam’s First Empire

Eamonn Gearon History Today

The Egyptian Queen Who Used 'Magic' to Become Pharaoh

Liddy Berman NatGeo

Pompeii’s Graffiti Freezes Ancient Rome in Time

Anupama Ramakrishnan Smithsonian

Bloody Fiasco at the Crater, 1864

Arnold Blumberg Warfare History Network

The Troubled History of India's Tibetan Frontier

Ved Shinde Engelsberg Ideas

Does a Jury Need to Have 12 Members?

Wanling Su Time

The Sketch That Reveals the History of ‘American Gothic’

James Barron NYT

What Presidential Rankings Get Wrong

Steven F. Hayward The Coolidge Review

What If the Best Way to Learn About History Is By Playing With It?

Staff Economist

Scientists Discovered More Than 70 New Species in 2025

Robert Egan Phys

100 Years of Christmas Tree Trends in Photos

Lesley Kennedy HISTORY

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News