Bunk combs the web for new interpretations of American history, and highlights the fascinating connections between them.
Book Review
Borders May Change, But People Remain
The legacies of conflict—and their increasingly accessible images in a global age—frame the shared bonds of trauma in keeping their memories alive.
Q&A
Blacklists and Civil Liberties
On the Second Red Scare and the lessons that it can provide for us today.
Q&A
The Root and The Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860
On the robust influence of labor reform and antislavery ideas and movements on each other from the early National period to the Civil War.
Book Review
Confession Eclipsed
On the rise and fall of confession in American Catholicism, and what the demography of today's Catholics says about the future of the faith.
Retrieval
The Power of the Dead: BaKongo Inspiration and the Chesapeake Rebellion
Sensitivity to the influence of BaKongo cosmology on Kongo Christianity can help us better understand the choices made by leaders of the rebellion.
Retrieval
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade
In the 19th century, dyed ostrich feathers were haute couture, adorning the hats and boas of fashionistas on both sides of the Atlantic.
Comment
Who Gets to Be an American?
Since the earliest days of the Republic, American citizenship has been contested, subject to the anti-democratic impulses of racism, suspicion, and paranoia.