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1870 cartoon of people going camping

The Religious Roots of America's Love for Camping

How a minister's accidental bestseller launched the country's first outdoor craze.

by Terence Young via What It Means to Be American on October 12, 2017

A stone marker for a post road, slightly chipped, reading "Boston 8 miles 1734 A.I."

"To Undertake a News-Paper in This Town"

How printers in the 1770s assembled the news for their papers, how they used the postal system, and how they may have approached Twitter.

by Emily Sneff via Declaration Resources Project on September 20, 2017

This Woman’s Name Appears on the Declaration of Independence. Why Don’t we Know Her Story?

Mary K. Goddard printed one of the most famous copies of our founding document.

by Petula Dvorak via Retropolis on July 3, 2017

Woodcuts and Witches

On the witch craze of early modern Europe, and how the concurrent rise of the mass-produced woodcut helped forge the archetype of the broom-riding crone.

by Jon Crabb via The Public Domain Review on May 4, 2017

Free from the Government

The origins of the more passive view of the freedom of the press can be traced back to Benjamin Franklin.

by Joseph M. Adelman via We're History on January 17, 2017

Illustrated children reaching for books by statue of Anne Carroll Moore

The Librarian Who Changed Children’s Literature Forever

They called her ACM, but never, ever, to her face.

by Laura J. Miller via Slate on August 5, 2016

Is History Written About Men, by Men?

A careful study of recent popular history books reveals a genre dominated by generals, presidents—and male authors.

by Andrew Kahn, Rebecca Onion via Slate on January 6, 2016

A Brief History of the Great American Coloring Book

Where coloring books came from says something about what they are today.

by Phil Edwards via Vox on September 2, 2015

Book shelves full of books

Book Culture and the Rise of Liberal Religion

The rise of liberal religion in the United States.

by Matthew S. Hedstrom via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on January 29, 2013

Black-and-white image of sun exploding and vaporizing Earth, titled "Five Roads to Doomsday." Caption reads "This panel of drawings reproduces climactic scenes from Hayden Planetarium's sky drama depicting five catastrophes that could wipe out the world. Above, the sun is shown as it explodes into a new star, vaporizing the earth."

Paradise Lost

Why a hundred thousand Americans were ready to believe that Christ would return to earth in 1843.

via BackStory on December 14, 2012

Advertisement for a "Little Orphan Annie" comic book collection. The protagonist, Annie and her dog are in the foreground of the advertisement.

Little Ideological Annie

How a cartoon gamine midwifed the graphic novel—and the modern conservative movement.

by Ben Schwartz via Bookforum on November 30, 2008

Phillis Wheatley: an Eighteenth-Century Genius in Bondage

Vincent Carretta takes a look at the remarkable life of the first ever African-American woman to be published.

by Vincent Carretta via The Public Domain Review on December 2, 2006

Who Owns Anne Frank?

The diary has been distorted by even her greatest champions. Would history have been better served if it had been destroyed?

by Cynthia Ozick via The New Yorker on September 28, 1997

Harrison Gray Otis in superimposed over newspapers and palm trees.

Letter from Los Angeles

The history of the L.A. Times.

by Joan Didion via The New Yorker on February 18, 1990

A Look Inside James Baldwin’s 1,884 Page FBI File

Memos on "aliases," sexuality, and The Blood Counters.

by William J. Maxwell via Literary Hub on July 8, 1964

Pages from Eve Adams' Polish passport.

Deported From the U.S. for Publishing 'Lesbian Love,' She Was Later Killed by Nazis

Eve Adams was imprisoned for disorderly conduct and obscenity, then sent back to Europe, where she became a target of the Holocaust.

by Kellie B. Gormly via Smithsonian Magazine on June 26, 2025

Bound volumes detailing the history of the United States' foreign relations.

These Historians Oversee Unbiased Accounts of U.S. Foreign Policy. Trump Fired Them All.

The volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States have been written since Abraham Lincoln’s time.

by Petula Dvorak via Washington Post on May 28, 2025

Mark Twain

The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain

Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

by Lauren Michele Jackson via The New Yorker on April 28, 2025

“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte

In 1902, a woman named Mary MacLane from Butte, Montana, became an international sensation after publishing a scandalous journal at the age of 19.

by Hunter Dukes via The Public Domain Review on April 23, 2025

Zora Neale Hurston’s Rediscovered Novel

A new publication obscures the canonical writer.

by Tiana Reid via The Yale Review on March 11, 2025

Front page of the Washington Post above the fold.

The Real Story of the Washington Post’s Editorial Independence

When the Kamala Harris endorsement was spiked, the publisher cited tradition. A closer reading of history tells a different story.

by Steven Mufson via Columbia Journalism Review on February 25, 2025

Sam Francis.

The Sam Francis I Knew

The late conservative thinker, who died 20 years ago Saturday, has transcended the pariah status imposed on him during his life.

by Paul Gottfried via The American Conservative on February 20, 2025

1800s lithograph by George du Maurier showing a chair dance in an art studio.

Done in by Time

A review of Edwin Frank's short list of great 20th century novels.

by Joseph Epstein via Lamp Magazine on February 14, 2025

Cover of The Moving Image by Peter Kaufman.

The Power of the Moving Image

Video has become our dominant cultural medium, yet we lack reliable archives for the audiovisual record.

by Peter B. Kaufman via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 11, 2025

Old photo of Zora Neale Hurston laughing and holding a cigarette.

Go Hard or Go Home

On folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, who passed away sixty-five years ago today.

by Huda Hassan via Mother, Loosen My Tongue on January 28, 2025

Opus Dei, Embezzlement, and Human Trafficking

The Catholic order has branches all over the world, and a deep history of unethical and illegal behavior.

by Mark Oppenheimer, Gareth Gore via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on January 21, 2025

Best History Writing of 2024

Bunk's editors share their favorite history writing from the year just concluded.

by Tony Field, Jaime Fuller, Kathryn Ostrofsky, Sarah Stuart, Saige Beatman on January 9, 2025

1940s era tattoo shop

How Do You Preserve Tattoo History When Skin And Memory Fail?

Ed Hardy's historic tattoo parlor is closing. A lot more than that stands to be lost.

by Casey Taylor via Defector on December 6, 2024

The Late Great Hal Lindsey

The ideas he popularized will continue to shape evangelicalism for generations to come.

by Matthew Avery Sutton via Religion News Service on December 5, 2024

Pedestrians, carriages, and a trolley pass by the State street buildings in Westerville, Ohio.

The Ohio Town That Launched a Whiskey War

Westerville became the heart of the Prohibition movement, deploying everything from hymns to bombs to keep their town dry.

by Teresa Bitler via The Saturday Evening Post on December 5, 2024

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