RealClearHistory Week of August 10, 2026 Archives

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Monday, August 10

How America Won Battles They Should Have Lost

Bruce Lubbering RealClearHistory

Battle of Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman’s Futile Assault

John Walker WHN

Grant's Mindset: How Perception Shaped Victory at Shiloh

John Pabst Substack

Benedict Arnold, George Washington and the American Cause

Keli Holt Substack

King Arthur Was an 18th‑Century Royal PR Strategy

Amy Louise Blaney Conversation

How Iraq Became a Military State

Arbella Bet-Shlimon History Today

Nuclear Site Dig Will Change Prehistory, Says Archaeologist

Katy Prickett BBC

What Chilean Mummies Reveal About the Spanish Conquest

Will Dunham Reuters

How Archaeology Revealed Rome’s Most Famous Defeat

Kyle Hoekstra History Hit

5 Places You Can Still See Dinosaur Fossils in the U.S.

Becky Little HISTORY

Metal Detectorists Find Gold with 3 Bronze-Age Bracelets

Meilan Solly Smithsonian

Andrew Johnson: The First U.S. President to be Impeached

Harrison W. Mark WHE

Retracing Marco Polo's Journey Along the Silk Road

Staff NatGeo

History Says the Preseason No. 1 Comes with a Warning

Jared Beilby USA Today

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Wednesday, August 12

A Physicist's Inside Account of Nagasaki's Atomic Bombing

Fiona Macdonald BBC

One Man's Journey From Bomber Pilot to Prisoner of War

Amy Wannemacher WHN

A Lost Civilization is Rewriting China’s Origin Story

Jonathan Cheng WSJ

Uncovering a Forgotten Massacre in the Philippines

Michael G. Vann Jacobin

The Reagan-Era Roots of Trump's Battle Against the FTC

Thomas Barnico Substack

The Expedition that Paved the Way to the South Pole

Ed Armston-Sheret Conversation

The Man Who Rediscovered Troy—and Then Destroyed It

Sam Kean NatGeo

WWII Soldiers and Motorbike Recovered After 80 Years

Franziska Müller Euro News

Warlords of Greece: Warfare in Homer’s World

Josho Brouwers War on the Rocks

The Man Who Stopped Harry Truman

Garland S. Tucker III The Coolidge Review

The Aztec Calendar and How it Worked

Dave Roos HISTORY

The Amateur Archivists Trying to Save History in National Parks

Staff Guardian

The American Dream on the Danube

Anna Smith Lacey RealClearHistory

A Box of Love Letters Showed Up. Who Wrote Them?

Ellen Wexler Smithsonian

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News

Friday, August 14

The Next American Right

John J. Waters RealClearHistory

How the Iowa State Fair Became a Political Campaign Stop

Dan Roe HISTORY

The Oft-Repeated (Unsuccessful) Ancient Military Plan

Steven Weingartner WHN

Panic at Bull Run: Russell's Account of the Union Retreat

Joshua J. Mark WHE

The Hessians and the American Revolution

Greg Daugherty Smithsonian

Hyman Rickover and the Birth of Nuclear Power

Thane C. Clare War on the Rocks

Politics and Polo in Colonial India

Tripurdaman Singh History Today

The Man Who Stopped Harry Truman

Garland S. Tucker III The Coolidge Review

Who Really Wrote Elizabeth I’s Angriest Letter?

Clodagh Murphy Conversation

This Great Viking Warlord's Death is Still a Mystery

James Osborne HistoryExtra

What to Learn From WWII Incarceration Camp Relics

James Ross Gardner NatGeo

An Ancient Cave Opened Up a Forgotten World in Türkiye

Staff The Times of India

Diver Discovers ‘Treasure at the Bottom of the Sea’ in Sicily

Ephrat Livni NYT

Peterloo Massacre Survivor's 'Remarkable' Story Told 200 Years On

Staff BBC

65 Rare Photos That Will Change How You See America

Dave Stopera Yahoo Life

This Day in American History

Staff Liberty Nation News