RealClearHistory Week of July 13, 2026 Archives

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Monday, July 13

For American POWs, Liberation Did Not End Their Suffering

Carl Gnam WHN

Retracing the Iconic Lewis and Clark Expedition

Trevor Hughes USA Today

The Origins of Soccer's Red and Yellow Cards

Gregory Wakeman History

John Paul Jones and the Invasion of England

Keli Holt Substack

The Monetary Cost of the American Revolution

Vincent Geloso & Antoine Noël Econlib

New Exhibit Features a Rare Draft of the Declaration

Nikole Killion CBS News

How a Bear Claw Became a Grisly Token of Arctic Survival

Rachel Slade NatGeo

DNA Cracks a Nearly 250-Year-Old Cold Case

Ellen Wexler Smithsonian

Did the Citizens of Pompeii Know What Was Coming?

Serafina Kenny HistoryExtra

5 Key Images From the Bayeux Tapestry and the Story They Tell

Ian Youngs BBC

How Geographers Have Traced Odysseus’s Travels

Pragya Agarwal Conversation

The Best Call: Remembering the Man Who Helped Build EMS

John Pabst Substack

Citizen Kane at 85: A Revolutionary Masterpiece

Charlton Allen American Thinker

When the Private Sector Went to War

Arthur Herman The Coolidge Review

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, July 15

Britain's Forgotten Counter-Declaration

David Armitage History Today

When the Private Sector Went to War

Arthur Herman The Coolidge Review

Regime Change Ops in the Middle East: A Sorry Record

Galen Jackson WOTR

Our Never-Ending American Argument

Staff The New Republic

When the U.S. Military Tested Nukes on a Fleet

Nicholas Slayton Task & Purpose

Was *This* Hitler's Plan for After the War?

Will Howard Dangerous Minds

How the French Riviera Transformed into a Glitzy Getaway

Lily J. Hughes NatGeo

Hidden Chamber Found Under Home of Roman Emperor

Andrea Margolis Fox

Is *This* the Oldest Known Siege?

Tom Metcalfe HISTORY

The Man Sailing the World in a Replica Viking Longboat

Ella Hopkins The Guardian

Check Out 3 Newly Discovered Medieval Shipwrecks

K. Hitchcock-Smith Smithsonian

Would You Have Been Drafted for the Vietnam War?

Staff Military.com

24 U.S. Presidents, When They Were Young

Janaya Wecker Biography

The Real Stories Behind Five Common American Myths

Grace Abels WRAL

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, July 17

Is Britain Still Fighting the Falklands War?

Alwyn Turner UnHerd

The Falklands War: Why Did it Happen?

Staff HistoryExtra

The Other American Anniversary: 1826 Congress of Panama

Staff Foreign Policy

When America Made Daylight Saving Time Permanent

Jordan Friedman NatGeo

The Rise of the American Drive-Thru

Gregory Wakeman HISTORY

The Soviet Nuclear Sub Wreck That is a 'Ticking Time Bomb'

Fiona Macdonald BBC

The World’s First Influencers

Emma Schwak The Conversation

When the Private Sector Went to War

Arthur Herman The Coolidge Review

The British Bombs Down Under

Jessica Urwin History Today

Seven Invasions Throughout Britain's History

Simeon Netchev WHE

The Infamous Thai Declaration

Bob Bergin Warfare History Network

Bull Run Battle Shock: Hidden Truths Revealed

Ryan Thomas LaBee Military.com

The B-24 Liberator and the Bet That Paid Off

Mike Benitez War on the Rocks

Photographs Reveal the Everyday Lives of the Romanovs

Meilan Solly Smithsonian

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News