Whig Party

Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants to "make hard work cool again." He isn’t the first.

In 1840, William Henry Harrison was mocked for his presidential run at age 67 — 15 years younger than President Biden would be at the start of a second term.

Where abolitionists and congressmen—including Lincoln—dined, debated, and became bedfellows.

During the Civil War, the Lincoln administration demonstrated that a progressive agenda and effective anti-inflationary measures could overlap.

The debate regarding which Bible kids should read in school was about whether Catholic immigrants should have the full rights of American citizenship.

As convenient as it might be to blame the filibuster on the famous defender of slavery, the historical record is much messier.

After the Whig president’s shocking death, his vice president and successor proved to be a Whig by expedience only

Long before President Donald Trump, there was President John Tyler.

Was Davy Crockett a sellout? And does it matter?

A little-remembered president's most notorious act.

He fought to remake the center—not yield to it.

Bipartisanship is the exception, not the rule.

The sixth president, long derided as a hapless elitist, is suddenly relevant again 250 years after his birth.

It started with a hatred of crony capitalism.

What America’s last major party crack-up in the 1850s tells us about the 2010s.

President Obama espouses a facile faith in history bending toward perfection and morality-against evidence and reason.

The conversation around race after Hurricane Katrina echoed discourse from another New Orleans disaster 150 years before.

The battle is worth winning for Kevin McCarthy — and could reshape the Republican Party.

The senator from Massachusetts and the birth of the Republican Party.

An annotated collection of resources from the Bunk archive that help explain the shifting sands of American politics.