RealClearHistory Week of May 18, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 18

John Adams’s Hidden Hand Behind the Declaration

Danielle Allen Coolidge Review

Make America Literate Again

Harry Crocker RealClearHistory

General Benedict Arnold and the Battle of Saratoga

Keli Holt Just Enough History

Adams and Jefferson Disagreed on the Revolution

Marianne Holdzkom Conversation

WWII Love Letters Spark Search for Soldier’s Family

Ryan Thomas LaBee Military.com

Antietam and America's Bloodiest Day

Michael E. Haskew Warfare History Network

Lessons From the Osama bin Laden Raid

Miller Center Substack

How a UFO Sighting Kicked Off a Worldwide Craze

Mike Bezemek American Heritage

Underwater Memorial to Slave Ship Draws Pilgrims

Deepa Bharath AP News

How Did Bachelor and Bachelorette Parties Begin?

Joseph Bennington-Castro History

The Mummy, the Iliad, and a Mysterious Death Ritual

Taylor Mitchell Brown NatGeo

Medieval Popes, Scandal, and the World's Reaction

James Osborne HistoryExtra

The Trials of Joan of Arc

Deborah McGrady History Today

How Mapping the Nile Transformed Africa Forever

Mark Cartwright WHE

Escaping the Ancient 'Thucydides Trap' Today

Alexander Gale Greek Reporter

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, May 20

What Britain Thought of the US Civil War

Marcel Plichta History Today

How Americans Came Face-to-Face with the Declaration

Michael Auslin Substack

John Adams’s Hidden Hand Behind the Declaration

Danielle Allen Coolidge Review

D-Day and 30-Cent Haircuts: A Collection of WWII Letters

Judy Kurtz The Hill

City Under Siege: The New York Draft Riots

Rick Beard Warfare History Network

The 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing's Lost Victims

Francine Uenuma Smithsonian

America's First Bid for Greenland

Mark Kawar American Heritage

5 Mysterious Writing Systems That No One Has Deciphered

Crystal Ponti HISTORY

Remembering the Hindenburg Disaster

Sam H Arnold Vocal Media

90 Years After Fire, Crystal Palace Rises Again in London

Ronan Thomas RCH

12 Hotels Where America’s Defining Moments Unfolded

Paul Jebara Observer

Seeds Are Rewriting the History of Ancient Trade

Rossella Tercatin Times of Israel

An Ancient City Was Ruined, But this Statue Still Stood

Rubén M. González NatGeo

13 American History Facts Left Out Of Textbooks

Victoria Vouloumanos BuzzFeed

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, May 22

The Unsung Revolutionary War Campaign

Jack E. Davis & Annie Flanagan NYT

Switzerland to Declassify Files on Nazi ‘Angel of Death’

Jaydeep Gadhavi ThePrint

The Troublesome Ross Rifle of WWI

Jerome Baldwin Warfare History Network

John Adams’s Hidden Hand Behind the Declaration

Danielle Allen Coolidge Review

The Surprising Story Behind the First Brit in Space

Fiona Macdonald BBC

The Forgotten British Union of Fascists

Richard Smyth History Today

The Rise of Augustus: Architect of Rome’s Empire

Amy Irvine History Hit

The Ten Longest Reigns in History

Simeon Netchev World History Encyclopedia

The Richest Royal Family No One Talks About

Jade Biggs The List

An 1800s Novel Transformed American Architecture

Jack Balderrama Morley NatGeo

This Ancient Bullet Carried a ‘Sarcastic’ War Message

Staff The Times of India

11 Archaeological Discoveries That Rewrite Human History

Staff The Times of India

These Coins Were Created to Ward Off a Viking Invasion

Meilan Solly Smithsonian

5 Celebrities Rumored to Have Mob Ties

Crystal Ponti HISTORY

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News