History Intrigue for August

By Rick Morris

Welcome to our 11^th version of this new feature in The FDH Lounge, entitled History Intrigue.  We’re going to be flagging interesting-looking tidbits of a historical level.  While part of this is just going to come from general web surfing, many links each time are courtesy of Real Clear History, which does a great job aggregating for this topic just like all the others in the Real Clear brand.

We always work to be class acts in our own aggregation, so we’ll always give a mention of the site involved in the link.

^ From Der Spiegel, the battle at Tripoli finished the Gadhafi regime in 2011.

^ From NPR, how the Chicago ’68 riots affected political conventions in the future.

^ From the Independent Institute, theorizing that FDR wanted war with Japan well before Pearl Harbor.

^ From the Washington Post, how MLK’s “I have a dream” speech was drafted.

^ From The American Conservative, breaking the myth of Adam Smith as absolute free-trader.

^ From Wargamer, the battle of Shanghai in 1937 between China and Japan was a real brutal clash.

^ From ESPN, how Pete Rose permanently blew his chance to make the Baseball Hall of Fame.

^ From the Associated Press, newly released footage shows how Gerald Ford reacted to the Squeaky Fromme assassination attempt.

^ From HistoryNet, how America helped to liberate Paris.

^ From The National Interest, partitioning the Soviet legacy.