RealClearHistory Week of May 25, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 25

The Forgotten Man Who Gave America Memorial Day

Allen Frazier Military.com

This Memorial Day, Remember the Forgotten Wars

Brandon Wile Military.com

The History and Traditions of Memorial Day

Randy Jaye Palm Coast Observer

The History of Military Funerals and the 21-Gun Salute

Tim Ott HISTORY

Benjamin Franklin and the Franco-American Alliance

Keli Holt Just Enough History

Religious Toleration Helped America Win Independence

Eamonn Bellin Providence

This Community Smuggled Gunpowder to Revolutionaries

John Hanc Smithsonian

The 1%: Veterans Built Postwar Motorcycle Clubs

John S. Pabst RealClearHistory

A Season of Error: Coolidge in 1925

Walter Stahr The Coolidge Review

Britain’s 20th-Century Concentration Camps in Africa

Mark Cartwright WHE

London Exhibition Reveals Scale of Nazi Slave Labor

James W Kelly BBC News

The Dinos of Patagonia and the Hermit Who Found Them

Nicholas St. Fleur NatGeo

AI Just Decoded A 3,500-Year-Old Ancient Script

Nikhil Pandey NDTV

How Major Cities Coped in Heatwaves of the Past

Staff The Conversation

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, May 27

The Unthinkable Choice Faced by WWII Military Families

Richard Sisk Military Times

The Oldest Pearl Harbor Survivor, a 106-Year-Old Man

Michael Casey CBS

The Reason Britain Lost the Colonies

Nick Bunker Washington Post

11 of the Most Famous Political Cartoons in U.S. History

D. D. Degg Daily Cartoonist

Melting Ice Is Bringing Ancient Secrets to the Surface

Anna Fiorentino Smithsonian

The Origins of the Ebola Virus

Lesley Kennedy HISTORY

A Season of Error: Coolidge in 1925

Walter Stahr The Coolidge Review

How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Survived the Holocaust

Helen Whittle Deutsche Welle

Ancient Rome’s Thrilling Chariot Races

María Engracia Muñoz-Santos History

How English Colonizers Saw Indigenous Americans

Peter C. Mancall Conversation

The Evolution of the Medieval King Arthur Legend

Simeon Netchev WHE

The Murder of General Bull Nelson

Stuart W. Sanders Warfare History Network

Ruthless Rebel? The Bloody Legacy of Simon de Montfort

Amy Irvine History Hit

The 'Vampire' Bat's Demonic Mythology

Alexander Lee History Today

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, May 29

10 Founding Myths Debunked Ahead of America's 250th

Hannah Hudnall PJ Star

The Race to Identify America's Unknown Fallen

Ken McLaughlin The War Horse

The Tragic Story of the Watergate Whistleblower

Matt Glazebrook BBC

The History of Hantavirus: From Trenches to Cruise Ships

Becky Little HISTORY

Cracking the Enigma Codes at Bletchley Park

William F. Floyd Jr. WHN

A Season of Error: Coolidge in 1925

Walter Stahr The Coolidge Review

To Understand the American Revolution, I Went to Barbados

Staff NYT

How a Shipwrecked African Became the U.S.'s First Great Explorer

Eliot Stein BBC

The First Ever Documentary was an Arctic Survival Story

Kyle Hoekstra History Hit

Unearthing Namibia’s Forgotten Genocide

Staff The Conversation

The 1786 Affair of the Diamond Necklace

Mathew Lyons History Today

Status Symbol, Shock Weapon: Chariots in Chinese Warfare

Mark Cartwright WHE

Historians Have Yet to Solve Pompeii's Biggest Mystery

Serafina Kenny HistoryExtra

Can You Pass This Ancient History Trivia Quiz?

Ellie BuzzFeed

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News