RealClearHistory Week of July 20, 2026 Archives

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Monday, July 20

How the Biggest World Cup in History Will be Remembered

Staff PBS News

Before the Fed, J.P. Morgan Was America's Bank

Robert Bruner Coolidge Review

The Case of ‘America’s Oldest John Doe’ is Finally Solved

Associated Press CNN

The Army That Reshaped European Warfare

Simeon Netchev WHE

How William T. Sherman Was Saved From Certain Death

Roy Morris Jr. WHN

The Treachery of Benedict Arnold at West Point

Keli Holt Substack

The Battle of Shiloh is Misunderstood

John Pabst Substack

The Call: Thirty Years After TWA Flight 800

Charlton Allen American Thinker

What Most People Get Wrong About the Odyssey

Candida Moss NatGeo

The Rise of the American Drive-Thru

Gregory Wakeman HISTORY

People and the Sea, Across History and Mythology

Alastair Paynter Bow of Odysseus

How Diplomatic Disputes Can Dog the Olympics

Christopher Hill History Today

Ancient Armor Preserves the Fate of a Captured Legionary

Oguz Kayra Arkeo News

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, July 22

13 Patriotic Places Where U.S. History Began

Kate Orlando Only in Your State

How Controlling a Waterway Changed History

David M. Pritchard Conversation

When the Māori Battled the British to Protect their Land

Jordi Canal-Soler NatGeo

Did Hurricanes Aid American Revolutionaries?

Eric Jay Dolin Ameircan Heritage

The Great Comanche Raid of 1840

Eric Niderost WHN

How the P-51 Mustang Changed Aerial Warfare in WWII

Mark Cartwright WHE

Before the Fed, J.P. Morgan Was America's Bank

Robert Bruner Coolidge Review

The Logistics of Wartime Medicine

Naveen Krishnan War on the Rocks

8 Crucial Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

Shannon Callahan History Hit

Is Worshiping Greek Gods a Route to Modern Happiness?

Joe Baur CNN

1936’s Promise of Peace: Roosevelt on Campaign

Steven Casey History Today

Railway Construction Reveals the 'Emperor of the North'

Meilan Solly Smithsonian

Did Ancient Mesopotamians Build a Battery?

María de los Ángeles Orfila HISTORY

Tracing Art History From Ohio to Adelaide

Catherine Speck The Conversation

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, July 24

Before the Fed, J.P. Morgan Was America's Bank

Robert Bruner Coolidge Review

The Macabre Kidnapping of Eva Perón's Corpse

Fiona Macdonald BBC

How America Forgot Its Largest Slave Revolt

Steven Hicks RealClearHistory

Stalingrad: The Unbreakable City

Ian Garner History Today

How Aliens and UFOs Become Part of Area 51 Lore

Sydney Combs NatGeo

What Are DEFCON Levels – And Why Do They Exist?

Tiffini Theisen Military.com

This Prince Saved Hundreds of Orphans During WWII

Peter Zablocki Smithsonian

Vienna's Cafes Inspired; Belgrade's Bred Dissent

Anton Cebalo Aeon

In the Shadow of Sunrise: The Secret Surrender of Italy

Dennis Whitehead WHN

America at 250: The War to End All Wars

Gene Pisasale RealClearPennsylvania

People and the Sea, Across History and Mythology, Part 2

Alastair Paynter Substack

Did the Sea Peoples Cause the Bronze Age Collapse?

Gregory Wakeman History

Calypso: The Nymph Who Kept Odysseus Prisoner

Liana Miate WHE

The Lives of Clausewitz and the Remaking of "On War"

Stephen Nelson Small Wars

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News