Bunk combs the web for new interpretations of American history, and highlights the fascinating connections between them.
Comment
A Republic, If We Can Afford It
The framers of the United States Constitution envisoned economic discipline that they thought was a requirement for a republic to endure.
Explainer
Padding Out History: Menstrual Management in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century
How mobile and working women managed menstruation in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Book Excerpt
Give Me Independence: On 1776, the Pivotal Year For What Would Become America
Why 1776 became the year Americans declared themselves an independent nation.
Retrieval
McCarthyism Is Back. You Can Thank This Woman.
History has overlooked the real architect of Joe McCarthy’s purges: his wife.
Debunk
Southern Strategies
You're misreading Lee Atwater’s infamous “southern strategy” quote as a confession.
Comment
From Aid to Trade
What U.S. policymakers should know about U.S.-Africa relations.
Origin Story
My Search for Barbie’s Aryan Predecessor
The original doll was not made by Mattel but by a business that perfected its practice making plaster casts of Hitler.