Bunk combs the web for new interpretations of American history, and highlights the fascinating connections between them.

Israel is attacking Iran’s nuclear sites, but Tehran’s secret path was blazed by the Israelis.

A historian reviews new books by Peter Beinart, Avi Shlaim and Pankaj Mishra on the project that animates Israel’s violence.

Religious leaders hid behind the separation of church and state to uphold the institution of slavery and the forcible removal of Native Americans.

The sad remnants of a soldier’s life revealed through probate and Ancestry offer a moving glimpse into the afterlife of Civil War service.

The Interstate Highway System created a national polity defined by circulation. To rethink the Interstates is to rethink the United States.

Margaret Fuller was a polymathic intellect and writer, simultaneously ahead of her time and deeply enmeshed in the social and political fabric of her era.