RealClearHistory Week of April 20, 2026 Archives

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Monday, April 20

How Jefferson Crafted a Case Against Slavery

Cara Rogers Stevens Coolidge Review

The Final Steps To American Independence

Keli Holt Just Enough History

How Well Do You Know the American Revolution? Take a Quiz

Holly Meyer AP

When the U.S. Secretly Armed the Soviets to Invade Japan

Allen Frazier Military.com

The Outback's WWII 'Catch and Kill' Squad

Erin Parke ABC

How History Got One of America’s Most Horrific Crimes Wrong

Josh Levin Slate

A New Search Engine Reveals if Ancestors Were in Nazi Party

Bethany Bell BBC

U.S. Navy Airships vs. German U-boats in the Atlantic

Eric Niderost WHN

Ancient Teeth Reveal Clues to Early Human History

Zelalem Bedaso The Conversation

Korea: Stuck Between Between Asia’s Empires

Sheila Miyoshi Jager History Today

Did King Arthur Really Exist?

Owen Jarus Live Science

10 of the Most Popular Vinyl Records Ever Released

John Russell HISTORY

Vote on the Best Athlete in U.S. History for '250 for 250'

Eric Larsen USA Today

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, April 22

Common Law's Impact on Birthright Citizenship in the U.S.

Jerald Stubbs RCH

Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride Unfolds in Broad Daylight

Michael Casey WBUR

How a Small Ohio Town Served 1.3 Million WWII Troops

Susan Glaser Cleveland.com

This Founder Has Issues With the Office of the Presidency

H.W. Brands NYT

How Jefferson Crafted a Case Against Slavery

Cara Rogers Stevens Coolidge Review

This Navigator Refused Morphine to Guide His B-17 Home

Allen Frazier Military.com

How Japanese-American Translators Served the Allies

Dr. Carl H. Marcoux WHN

MLK: A Great American Statesman

Heath Anderson The Dispatch

Americans Arrested for Breaking into Auschwitz

Staff Newsweek

The British Royals’ First U.S. Visit – and its Menu

Dave Roos HISTORY

Tour the Mighty Palaces of the Heroes of the Iliad

Ángel Carlos Aguayo Pérez NatGeo

Mesopotamian Warfare: Early Development of Armed Conflict

Joshua J. Mark WHE

How Bronze Age Artisans Crafted an Agate Sword

Nick Kampouris GreekReporter.com

What is a Lingua Franca? A Brief History

Alexandra Aikhenvald The Conversation

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, April 24

Recognizing An "Early Act of Resistance" in American History

Nicole Poitras WMUR

Plausible Deniability and the Bay of Pigs Tragedy

Dr. Miguel A. Faria RCH

Truman’s Decision to Intervene in Greece and Turkey

Richard Allen Hyde Providence

How Jefferson Crafted a Case Against Slavery

Cara Rogers Stevens Coolidge Review

Some Scots Own Fragments of the Stone of Destiny—How?

Melissa Hobson NatGeo

Jud Suss: The Film That Fueled the Holocaust

Gary Kidney Warfare History Network

The Bizarre Story of the 'Great Stork Derby'

Jordan Friedman Smithsonian

The Force Behind Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade

Staff History Today

One of the Greatest Corruption Scandals to Rock the UK

Debbie Kilroy Inside History

How 65 Became America’s Default Retirement Age

Jordan Friedman HISTORY

The American Public's Frenzy Over Jackie O's Possessions

Greg McKevitt BBC

How Babur Came to Conquer Hindustan

Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi Indian Express

The Twelve Olympian Gods of Ancient Greece

Simeon Netchev WHE

Are You an Athenian or a Spartan?

Edith Hall Telegraph

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News