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.
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.
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Annotation
Stonewall National Monument Declaration: Annotated
In June 2016, President Obama proclaimed the first LGBTQ+ national monument in the United States at the site of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City.
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Supreme Thwart
Ever since the Supreme Court gave itself the power of judicial review in 1803, its role in the federal government and its influence on American life has been bitterly contested.
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.
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.