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Trump challenges the press. Nixon changed it.

A Second Amendment scholar makes the case that gun restrictions are not a recent phenomenon.

Newly discovered footage of the time 20,000 American Nazis descended upon midtown Manhattan.

Documentary filmmaker Lance Warren interrogates the silence around lynching in the American South.

Not yet—but it has precious few supporters on either the left or the right.

Remembering the black-fisted silent protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games.

The notion that Donald Trump can convert a large swath of white, blue-collar Democrats is a fantasy. They don’t exist.

Twitter, valuing expansion over principles, achieved its goal of changing the world. But not in the way that it planned.

Frances Glessner Lee created meticulous and gruesome dioramas of murder scenes, which are still used to train police today. 

Hollywood in its early days was not the kind of place where powerful men abused their power over women.

The story of the 19-year old who killed the white master raping her, and claimed self-defense.

Vietnam was not a "tragic misunderstanding" but a campaign of "imperial aggression."

An oral history of the biggest one-day stock market drop in history.

Populism stretches through the American experience.

We thought we knew the white working class. Then 2016 happened.

The U.S. working class is tremendously diverse — and growing in strength.

Consumer demand and government policy decimated rural America.

The “now more than ever” tendency is everywhere.

John Oliver reflects on the history of Confederate monuments.

A botched voter purge prevented thousands from voting—and empowered a new generation of voting-rights critics.

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.

Presidents who win the electoral college but lose the popular vote never really recover.

In Progressive-Era New York, a now-forgotten trend of public bathhouses was introduced in order to cleanse the unwashed masses.

How the post-racial revolution became a whitewash.

Read this before you start printing tickets for an impeachment trial.

Our difficulties today are far removed from what the Populist Party tried to tackle. But their movement can nourish our imaginations.

Historian Judith Stein debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.

It has stifled suffrage, blamed immigrants for chaos, and suppressed civil rights. It's also how Donald Trump views the entire world.

Whenever Democrats lose votes, pundits crow that they've lost the working class. Not so, though they have alienated unions.

Donald Trump is not the first person to gain power by questioning, undermining, and delegitimizing once-trusted institutions.

Jane Addams, a leading Victorian-era reformer, believed dance halls were “one of the great pitfalls of the city.”

A new study suggests that online dating is influencing levels of interracial marriage, and even the stability of marriage itself.

Two South Carolina lawmakers dust off a familiar trope in an attempt to fight back against Confederate monument removals.

What are Americans really talking about when they talk about religious freedom?

Not only can we not shake the memories of Vietnam, but they still shape our foreign policy debates.

Throughout history, one would be hard-pressed to find an example of black protest that most white people found acceptable at the time.

How tax breaks and a quasi-colonial status make the island vulnerable to disasters.

The Trump candidacy looks a lot more like Reagan's than anyone might care to notice.

Civil War historian David Blight reflects on America’s Disunion – then and now.

Your favorite light sweater was worn to war, before getting picked up by academics, Mr. Rogers, and Kurt Cobain.

What was Arthur Schlesinger’s “vital center”?

While Trump's response was unprecedented, the inclination to highlight violence on the Left – especially from black Americans – is not.

The origins of the politics of “reverse discrimination."

In its first century the American higher-education system was a messy, disorganised joke. How did it rise to world dominance?

Restricting the press backfires politically.

Dorothy Thompson's 1941 paranoid 'parlor game' just as (un) useful today.

The view from 1941.

The PBS series by Burns focuses on soldiers' stories, with scant attention to the immense number of Vietnamese civilians who suffered and died.

The PBS documentary on America’s most futile conflict is missing one explosive document. Every president should absorb its chilling lessons.

New findings explain how Trump won them over—and why he probably wouldn’t next time.