Bunk combs the web for new interpretations of American history, and highlights the fascinating connections between them.
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The Politics of Humiliation
The liberal jeremiad warns that democracy is fragile, institutions must be defended, and that vigilance is the price of liberty.
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How Pecans Went From Ignored Trees to a Holiday Staple – The 8,000-year History
Pecans are a truly American nut: They grew on George Washington’s estate, and they flew to space on an Apollo mission.
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The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon
In the early twentieth century, America's literature seemed provincial until Malcolm Cowley championed writers like Kerouac and Faulkner as distinctly American.
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Escalating the Escalation
A short history of the long war on drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.
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Goldbugs
How a fringe libertarian belief in monetary collapse inspired a 1970s literature of survivalism.
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American Foodways
This exhibit explores the history of the ways Americans eat, from the influences on our cooking to the regional specificities of our meals to the ways we celebrate around family tables.