RealClearHistory Week of June 22, 2026 Archives

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Monday, June 22

George Washington and the Battle for America's Frontier

Keli Holt Substack

The Old Lion of Conservative Literature

Teresa Mull RealClearHistory

The Scot Behind the Declaration of Independence

Samuel Gregg The Coolidge Review

Father’s Day Was Over 60 Years in the Making

Mariyam Muhammad Dispatch

The CIA’s History of Violence

Marc Becker History Today

The Allies Debated How They Should Win WWII

Mark Cartwright WHE

The Nazi's Desperate Offensive for Oil

Martin Dougherty Warfare History Network

How the Richest Men in US History Made Their Money

Dave Roos HISTORY

Anxious to be Free: One Man's Life of Liberty

Jonathan Lawler Carolina Journal

These 8 Americans Shaped History. We Just Don’t Agree on How.

Staff NYT

The Great Americans of Flight 93, September 11

Colleen Shogan The Free Press

Solving One of Humanity’s Oldest ‘Missing Person’ Cases

Nicholas St. Fleur NatGeo

77 Skeletons Unearthed at Mysterious Stone Age Settlement

Ben Cost NY Post

Archaeologists May Have Unlocked a Stonehenge Mystery

Colin Barras HistoryExtra

Lincoln Memorial Undercroft Opens for First Time in 100 Years

Staff USA Today

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, June 24

Politics and Football Have Always Been Tied in Argentina

Leslie Ray History Today

The Founders Had a Revolution to Overcome Before the War

J. H. Cook Fox

The Scot Behind the Declaration of Independence

Samuel Gregg The Coolidge Review

The Call for an Axis Unconditional Surrender in WWII

Mark Cartwright WHE

A Tale of Two Flags: The Union Jack v. Stars and Stripes

Guy lynn Vocal Media

How the American Flag Helped Unite

Stewart D. McLaurin USA Today

11 Times Presidents Shaded Reality and Shaped History

Louis Jacobson Politifact

The Creation of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1861

Lawrence Weber WHN

Celebrating Independence in Historic Newspapers

Amber Paranick LOC

WWI Trenches Uncovered in Archaeological Dig

Tony Fisher BBC News

The Story of America's First Summer Camp

Crystal Ponti History

Britain Will Have Its 7th Prime Minister in a Decade

Megan Specia & Josh Holder NYT

The First Bank of the U.S. is Reopening as a Museum

Michaela Althouse PhillyVoice

The People Who Made the Iconic Shaker Chair

Cathy Newman NatGeo

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, June 26

A Story of Unlikely Power in the Jim Crow South

Steven Hicks RealClearHistory

The Colonists’ Grievances Are Still Relevant Today

Robert Parkinson Conversation

The Striking Cobra: Phase Two of the D-Day Invasion

David Alan Johnson WHN

The Battle of Little Bighorn Continues to Mystify

Greg Daugherty Smithsonian

How Days of Fasting Helped Fuel the American Revolution

Sarah Gleim HISTORY

A South African Perspective on the Declaration

Martin Van Staden Isonomia Quarterly

The Scot Behind the Declaration of Independence

Samuel Gregg The Coolidge Review

A Revolutionary Soldier's DNA Links Him to Living Relatives

Scott Neuman NPR

19th-Century Law and Birthright Citizenship

Joseph Dwyer III New York Almanack

The (Short) Story of the American West

Chris Smallbone History Today

How the United Nations Was Born from WWII

Mark Cartwright WHE

John le Carré's Novels Were Shaped By His Con-Man Father

Fiona Macdonald BBC

Were Some of History’s Earliest Kings Actually Queens?

Liddy Berman NatGeo

Marie Antoinette's Last Words Were an Apology

Eden Gordon Mental Floss

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News