RealClearHistory Week of August 3, 2026 Archives

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Monday, August 3

The Outsider Who Took on FDR

Senator Todd Young The Coolidge Review

The Southern Pivot and the Battle of Camden in the Revolution

Keli Holt Substack

How Night Vision Helped Turn the Tide at Okinawa

Sharmila Kuthunur HISTORY

Hiroshima at 81: Considering America’s New Nuclear Bomb

Henry Miller GLP

The Most Significant Sieges in History

Richard Cockett Economist

What Does “Consent of the Governed” Really Mean?

Gordon Wood American Heritage

How Diamonds Transformed Southern Africa

Mark Cartwright WHE

25 Military Quotes That Capture the Essence of War

Ryan Thomas LaBee Military.com

Why the Soviets Feared the Sniper 'White Death'

Stephen Ruiz We Are The Mighty

What Hannibal’s Elephants Reveal About His Alpine Journey

Tibi Puiu ZME Science

Was There a Real King Arthur?

Ken Dark History Today

Six of History’s Most Dangerous Fashion Trends

Naomi Braithwaite The Conversation

Years After WWII Love Letters Arrived, Their Mystery is Solved

Joe Heim WaPo

How is a 60-Year-Old City Linked to 19th-Century Slavery?

Martin Heath BBC

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, August 5

Weather of Warfare: When the Elements Saved America

Bruce Allen Lubbering RCH

How a Queen in Exile Was Turned Into a Goddess

Vanessa Puyadas NatGeo

England's Forgotten South American Colony

Matthew Parker History Today

The Union Army's... Hot Air Balloon Corps?

Don Hollway WHN

Remembering Japan's Kamikaze Warfare Campaign

Simeon Netchev WHE

How Frontier Scouts Helped Settle the American West

David Lauterborn HISTORY

The Bravest Presidential Speech in U.S. History?

David Harsanyi Examiner

Arguments About Disability Benefits Are 500 Years Old

David Turner Conversation

Flying Was His Dream. Then the Nazis Shot Him Down

C.S. Hagen InForum

The Outsider Who Took on FDR

Senator Todd Young The Coolidge Review

Why Are Young People Obsessed with the Middle Ages?

LA Robinson Telegraph

Discover Australia's Most Notorious Shipwreck

Sarah Kuta Smithsonian

What a Labor Strike (or its Lack) Says About a Small Town

Robert Ordway Lantern

Sometimes, Remembered History is Incomplete

John Pabst Substack

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, August 7

The Mission to Smuggle a V2 Rocket out of Nazi Territory

Fiona Macdonald BBC

The Algeria-Morocco Rivalry and its Effects on Ceuta

Kersten Knipp DW

The Election That Decided the Fate of the U.S. Civil War

Harrison W. Mark WHE

Why Has History Forgotten WWII’s Largest Prison Break?

Meilan Solly Smithsonian

The Assyrian Empire: The World's First Military Superpower

Tom Metcalfe HISTORY

How a Forgotten Text Triggered a Royal Crisis

James Osborne HistoryExtra

King Kamehameha’s Conquest of Hawaii

Tom Wolforth WHN

William II: The Sin King of England

Tom Licence History Today

The Most Destructive Wildfires in U.S. History

Raymond Sanchez FOX Weather

The Outsider Who Took on FDR

Senator Todd Young The Coolidge Review

Who Were the Luddites? Their Legacy Ripples Out

Brian Lewis Conversation

As the Danube Dries Up, Shipwrecks and Bones Come Into View

Staff CBS

A New Generation is Bringing Amish Folk Magic Back to Life

Nora Neus NatGeo

Did William Shakespeare Really Write His Own Plays?

Whitney Grace TheCollector

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News