Bunk combs the web for new interpretations of American history, and highlights the fascinating connections between them.
Comparison
Trump’s Deportation Frenzy Echoes the Fugitive Slave Hunts of the 1850s
Trump's crackdown on immigrants bears alarming parallels to the fugitive slave obsessions of the pre-Civil War South.
Debunk
Economic Mobility, Not Manufacturing Decline, Is the Real Rust Belt Story
A look at popular interpretations and actual labor fluctuations in the Rust Belt over time.
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Medicaid
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Biography
America Deported Her for Publishing the Book 'Lesbian Love.' Years Later, She Was Killed by Nazis
Eve Adams was imprisoned for disorderly conduct and obscenity, then sent back to Europe, where she became a target of the Holocaust.
Comment
If Trump Could Make John Wayne the Head of Homeland Security, He Would
Trump mixes restoration with revolution—his reactionary modernism wooed Silicon Valley, but for everyone else, it signals looming repression.
Longread
It Happened Here: Remembering One of America’s First Modern School Shootings, 50 Years Later
A teacher tells the story of 1974’s Olean, New York High School murders.
Retrieval
God Gave Rock and Roll to You
Fiery, energetic and preached by charismatic frontmen, Pentecostal Christianity had a big influence on rock and roll in its formative years.