RealClearHistory Week of June 1, 2026 Archives

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Monday, June 1

Slavery, the Underground Railroad, and the Civil War

Gene Pisasale RCPenn

The Forgotten Story of Abolition in France

Jeremy D. Popkin The Conversation

Ona Judge, the Slave Who Escaped George Washington

Meilan Solly Smithsonian

Why 1776 Was Both Radical and Conservative

Yuval Levin The Coolidge Review

The Fall of Philadelphia and Valley Forge

Keli Holt Just Enough History

End Game at Appomattox

Mike Phifer Warfare History Network

How World War II Popularized Tattoos

Jesse Greenspan HISTORY

The Sailors Who Survived Notorious Yangtze Incident

Holly Fleck BBC

My Grandpa Died in WWII. I Met Him Through His Letters

Gina Wolf War Horse

Why is Route 66 America's Most Famous Highway?

Staff WBUR

Prelude to Putin: Russia and the West in the 1990s

James Rodgers History Today

Warsaw’s Sewers Connect the City to its Brutal Past

Filip Mazurczak NFP

May 1940: How Churchill Came to Save Civilization

Francis P. Sempa Providence

The Medieval Muslims Who Transformed Europe

Serafina Kenny HistoryExtra

How Marilyn Monroe Changed Hollywood

Silke Wünsch Deutsche Welle

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, June 3

Sailor's Pearl Harbor Secret Revealed After 85 Years

Ryan Thomas LaBee Military

George Washington Warned Us About Partisanship

Michel J. Faulkner Inquirer

Boston and Philly are Fighting Over the Legacy of 1776

Brian MacQuarrie The Globe

Searching for Artifacts, They Found Something Rare

Gregory S. Schneider WaPo

Why 1776 Was Both Radical and Conservative

Yuval Levin The Coolidge Review

How Unemployed Fishermen Saved the Revolution

Christopher Magra Conversation

The American South and the Burden of History

Steven E. Hicks RealClearHistory

How Chess Became Medieval Europe’s Favorite Pastime

Anna Thorpe NatGeo

Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty

Justine Firnhaber-Baker History Today

8 Historical Sites That Honor America’s First Ladies

Elizabeth Yuko HISTORY

Military Films Throughout History

Blaine Taylor Warfare History Network

An New Exhibition Lets You Tear Down a George III Statue

Ellen Wexler Smithsonian

When Russia Became a Socialist State in 1917

Mark Cartwright WHE

Land of Fire and Ice: The Norse Quest for a New World

Amy Irvine History Hit

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, June 5

How Americans Celebrated the Centennial in 1876

Lesley Kennedy HISTORY

The Revolutionary War's Chief Villain is Being Rehabilitated

Laurie Kellman AP

The Truth Behind WWII’s Philadelphia Experiment

Shannon Corbeil Military.com

How Juan Pujol Garcia (a.k.a. "Garbo") Made D-Day Happen

Peter Kross WHN

12 of History’s Most Devastating Civil Wars

Simeon Netchev World History Encyclopedia

The Enduring Mystery of a Couple’s World War II Letters

Joe Heim WaPo

Navy Researchers Find Wreck of World War II Sub

Nicholas Slayton Task & Purpose

A New Exhibit Tells the Story of Revolutionary Women

Meilan Solly Smithsonian

Why 1776 Was Both Radical and Conservative

Yuval Levin The Coolidge Review

The Long History of Gerrymandering in American Politics

Jerald Stubbs RCH

The Biggest and Best Upsets the World Cup Has Ever Seen

Staff The Guardian

Remembering Nepal's Royal Massacre

Thomas Bell History Today

The Terrifying First Round-the-World Balloon Flight

Jonathan Wright HistoryExtra

UK and Portugal: The Original Special Relationship

Alastair Paynter Substack

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News