Bunk combs the web for new interpretations of American history, and highlights the fascinating connections between them.
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Homeland Empire
From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is trying to create a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity.
Book Review
Conservatism and the Korean War
A new book recounts diverse opinions among US foreign policy intellectuals during the Korean War.
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Best History Writing of 2025
The short-form history writing that moved, impressed, and taught our editors the most this year.
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What Is the Role of the Historian?
Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.
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Who Gets to Be Indian—And Who Decides?
The very American story of Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance.
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The First Prophet of Abundance
David Lilienthal’s account of running the TVA can read like the "Abundance" of 1944. We have a lot to learn from what the book says — and what it leaves out.
Book Review
How Has the Idea of Revolution Changed?
A new history examines the long history of a radical and sometimes conservative concept.