Megan Kate Nelson

These communities rely almost entirely on tourism for their existence—yet too much tourism, not to mention climate change, can destroy them.

The 1872 act that established the nature preserve provoked Lakota assertions of sovereignty.

Commitment to racial justice, not conciliation, is needed to save democracy.

During the Civil War, Union soldiers in the West weren’t fighting to end slavery, but to annihilate and remove Native Americans.

How the forgotten fight for the West exposes the meaning of the Confederate flag.

How a rare copy of the U.S.-Navajo Treaty, once thought lost, was found in a New England attic.

On October 15th, a tweet by Bunk contributing editor Kevin Levin touched off this fascinating exchange between several historians on the subject of popular history. Among the topics it covered were novelty, craft, context... and the musical Hamilton.

What should be done with civic monuments to the Confederacy and its leaders?

The West cared very much about the Civil War.