RealClearHistory Week of May 11, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 11

The Forgotten History of Mother’s Day

Heidi Stonehill Almanac

The Bombing of Britain and Mayfair’s Mettle

Ronan Thomas RealClearHistory

The Banker Who Helped Fund the Revolution

Richard Vague AMERICAN HERITAGE

When George Washington Crossed the Delaware

Keli Holt Just Enough History

The Overlooked Loyalists of the American Revolution

Kimberly Nath Conversation

The Knoxville Campaign: Battle of Fort Sanders

Arnold Blumberg WHN

Solving the Mystery of a Missing WWII Soviet Prisoner of War

Olga Ivshina BBC

Operation Barbarossa: 5 Factors That Doomed the Invasion

Dave Roos HISTORY

Detroit’s Forgotten Assimilation Machine

Gene Dattel The Coolidge Review

Snake Oil: From Folk Remedy to Notorious Fake

Douglas R.J. Small History Today

Hunter-Gatherer Tribe Weighs Whether to Join Modernity

Nicholas Bariyo WSJ

Decoding the Meteoric Rise of Julius Caesar

Amy Irvine History Hit

Agatha Christie, Crime Novels and the Red Scare

Alwyn Turner UnHerd

10 Living Things Named After David Attenborough

McKenzie Prillaman Smithsonian

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, May 13

The Secret Plan to Murder a Pope

Marvin Kalb Washington Monthly

The Overlooked Role of Asian Soldiers in the Civil War

Rachel Chang HISTORY

The Sepoy Revolt Helped Push the U.S. to Civil War

Nicholas Simon History Today

The Sharp Clash at North Anna, 1864

David A. Norris Warfare History Network

How Independence Revolutionized U.S. Philanthropy

Amanda Moniz Conversation

The WWII Spy Killed in Mystery Crash Days After the War Ended

Neil Prior BBC

Eight Major Military Failures: Ambition, Limits, and Collapse

Simeon Netchev WHE

Detroit’s Forgotten Assimilation Machine

Gene Dattel The Coolidge Review

How Disneyland Remade American Politics

Beverly Gage The Free Press

Lincoln's Illegal Arrests and a Constitutional Crisis

Joseph Connor American Heritage

How a Robot Led Researchers Deep into the Great Pyramid

Rachel Slade NatGeo

When Monarchies Collapsed, Why Didn't Britain's?

James Osborne HistoryExtra

Nazi Database Takes Germans Into Their Dark Pasts

Deborah Cole The Guardian

How Well Do You Know U.S. Sports History? Test Your Knowledge

Holly Meyer AP

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, May 15

What Is Armed Forces Day?

Tim Ott HISTORY

Surprise! America Proclaimed Independence in May 1776

Eugene A. Procknow RCH

Precursors to the Preamble: Other Declarations

Patrick Hastings LOC

How German Spies Nearly Blew Up the Statue of Liberty

Allen Frazier Military.com

The American West: A Journey Through U.S. History

Adam Stone USA Today

How Iranian Culture Swept Colonial America

John Ghazvinian American Heritage

The 'Divine Visions' Prophesying the Fall of the USSR

Fiona Macdonald BBC

The Original Anti-Vaxxers

Patricia Fara History Today

Detroit’s Forgotten Assimilation Machine

Gene Dattel The Coolidge Review

20 Photos Show How Different Europe Was Before WWII

Julia Corrigan BuzzFeed

Diamonds and the Transformation of Southern Africa

Mark Cartwright WHE

What a List of Black Death Survivors Reveals about the Plague

Staff Conversation

How Buddhism Spread in Asia: A Map and Timeline

Staff NYT

Can DNA Solve the Mystery of the Fourth Musketeer?

Tom Metcalfe NatGeo

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News