RealClearHistory Week of January 26, 2026 Archives

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Monday, January 26

What Was the Effect of the Monroe Doctrine?

Lesley Kennedy HISTORY

The 10 Countries With the Most Overseas Territories

Hanna Duggal Al Jazeera

War-Makers Have Always Talked About 'Peace'

Timothy Joseph The Conversation

The Last US Cavalry Charge in History

Allen Frazier Military.com

Help Transcribe Revolutionary War Era Documents!

Carlyn Osborn LOC

Vestiges of World War II in a Modern Asian Metropolis

Brad Lendon CNN

The War Chariots of the Celtic Elite

Andrew M. Scott Warfare History Network

Egypt’s ‘Lost Golden City’ Resurfaces After 3,400 Years

Staff The Times of India

How the Chinese Zodiac Shaped Life for Centuries

Erin Blakemore NatGeo

The Shogunate System of Japan, Explained

Staff History Maps

The 1950s: A Not-So-Golden Age

John H. Cochrane The Coolidge Review

A President and the Eucharist

Andrew Fowler RealClearReligion

The Death of George V

Francis Watson History Today

250 Years After Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

Christopher Jacobs The Federalist

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, January 28

How Minnesota's History of Protest Informs This Moment

Katie Nicholson CBC

A Brief History of Protest in America

Inderjeet Parmar The Wire

Iran: A Timeline of Mass Protests Since 1999

Shabnam von Hein Deutsche Welle

How the U.S. Built Its Territory: From 1783 to the Pacific

Staff Deccan Herald

An American Warship is Getting a 250th-Birthday Makeover

Michael E. Ruane WaPo

How the Army Kept Secret the Deaths of 763 Soldiers

Allen Frazier Military.com

The Battle of Hue City: In the Thick of the Tet Offensive

John Walker WHN

Cortina’s 1956 Olympics: TV, Tension and the Cold War

Lakshmi Gandhi HISTORY

The 1950s: A Not-So-Golden Age

John H. Cochrane The Coolidge Review

How Australian Journalists Witnessed to the Holocaust

Fay Anderson Conversation

The Brothels of the British Empire

Catherine Phipps History Today

The Powerful Women of Athena's Cult

Joshua J. Mark World History Encyclopedia

Is This the World's Oldest Alphabet?

Anna Thorpe NatGeo

The Descendants of Shakespeare

Staff History Extra

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, January 30

How the Boston Massacre Changed the Colonists Forever

Jon Fasman Economist

What 'Banana Republic' Means — And Why the History Matters

Brenda Haas DW

The Venezuela Coup and Cuba Threats Are Old U.S. Habits

Jonathan M. Katz FP

The Teen Who Stayed in Her Bus Seat — Before Rosa Parks

Erin Blakemore NatGeo

The 1970s Sex Scandal That Led to a Dramatic Trial

Greg McKevitt BBC

First Contact with America: Culture Shock and Its Effects

Anton Cebalo Substack

The 1950s: A Not-So-Golden Age

John H. Cochrane The Coolidge Review

Grievance: Authoritarianism’s Animating Force

Benjamin Carter Hett Foreign Affairs

The 7 Stages of Imperial Collapse

Kushal Deb WION

Syphilis and Scurvy: Diagnosing Henry VIII

Sophie Shorland History Today

The Unwieldy History of the Battle-Ax

William McPeak Warfare History Network

Troy: Careful Peace, Not Epic War, Shaped This City

Stephan Blum The Conversation

430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found

Franz Lidz NYT

How to Teach the Key Documents of U.S. History

Colleen Smith LOC

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News