RealClearHistory Week of March 9, 2026 Archives

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Monday, March 9

How a Tariff Fight Created Federal Income Tax

Phillip Magness Coolidge Review

When the American Colonists Took on Parliament

Keli Holt Just Enough History

How Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' Speech Launched the Cold War

Greg McKevitt BBC

The Nazi 'Gold Train Incident'

Peter Kross Warfare History Network

Reflecting on the Rhineland Crisis

Yoav J. Tenembaum RealClearHistory

What Was the 'Pastry War' and How Did it End?

Matthew Lyons History Today

Eugene Sandow: The Original Fitness Influencer?

Christopher Klein HISTORY

The First Copy of the Declaration of Independence

Michael Auslin Patowmack Packet

Would Lincoln Mourn the Death of his Penny?

Matthew Pinsker AMERICAN HERITAGE

The 18th-Century That Parallels Warner Bros Deal

Marrisa Joseph Conversation

This Native American Dance Started a Movement

Patricia Daniels NatGeo

Archaeology Offers a Deeper Look at Colonialism in Africa

Staff The Conversation

The Rise and Fall of the Earliest Cities in the World

Joshua J. Mark WHE

This Ordinary Ancient Roman Object is Still Used Today

Serafina Kenny History Extra

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, March 11

U.S. to Exhume Remains of Pearl Harbor Sailors Buried as Unknowns

Staff CBS

This Sub Was the Last U.S. Boat to Notch a Torpedo Kill — Until Now

Staff NT

The Soviet Spies Who Came to Enjoy American Life

Zach Dorfman Politico

Night of the Bloody Tiger: German Raid on a D-Day Exercise

Michael D. Hull WHN

General George Washington and the Siege of Boston

Patrick Hastings LOC

The Fugitive Slave Who Wrote to the President

Regina E. Mason The Atlantic

Remembering Churchill and the ‘Sinews of Peace’

Elizabeth Spalding Spectator

How An Ancient World Linked India and Iran

Arup K Chatterjee The Indian Express

How Mushrooms Changed the Course of History

Benjamin Taub New Scientist

A Crown of Stone and Gold

Charlton Allen RealClearReligion

Hagia Sophia and the Persistence of Memory & Conflict

James Diddams Providence

The Tragic Life of Mary, Queen of Scots

Pedro Garcia Martin NatGeo

The Stunning Evolution of the Telephone Since 1876: Photos

Tim Ott HISTORY

The History of Sign Language

Rosamund Oates The Conversation

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, March 13

Today's Historical Parallel Isn’t the Cold War. It’s WWI.

Dylan Jones Politico

Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech at 80

James Diddams Providence

The Strait of Hormuz's Role in the Tanker War

Martin S. Navias History Today

The Suburban Spies Who Sold Nuclear Secrets to the USSR

Greg McKevitt BBC

Glider Pilots: No Parachutes, No Second Chances

Scott McGaugh WHN

The Leader Who Withstood the Nazis – And Churchill

James Osborne HistoryExtra

The Real Story of Brutus’ Betrayal of Caesar

Pedro Ángel Fernández Vega NatGeo

Adam Smith's Lessons for the Global Economy, 250 Years Later

Mark John Reuters

The Cavaliers and Roundheads of the English Civil War

Alastair Paynter Substack

Washington’s Warning About Religion Still Matters

Andrew Fowler RealClearReligion

How Propaganda Made a Martyr of the Revolution

Serena Jampel Smithsonian

Back When Chainsaws Helped Deliver Babies

Sarah Gleim HISTORY

Cuneiform: The Writing System That Made History

Joshua J. Mark WHE

50 Incredible Discoveries That Open Windows To Another Era

Nikita Manot AOL

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News