Bunk combs the web for new interpretations of American history, and highlights the fascinating connections between them.
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The Founders Knew Great Wealth Inequality Could Destroy Us
At the founding of America, leaders predicted that a concentration of wealth would weaken the republic.
Comment
On Myths and Monuments
Mount Rushmore and storytelling at America’s national parks.
Longread
How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party
During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win—and it’s destroying them now.
Book Review
It Has Pockets!
How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion.
Book Review
All In the Family
How William F. Buckley Jr. turned his father’s private convictions and prejudices into a major political movement.
Dispatch
No Place of Grace
Coming to terms with free-state slavery through historic buildings and public history.
Book Review
American Hysteria
Red Scare can be read as solid history of the years it depicts—and chilling prophecy of the years to come.