Ulysses S. Grant

Why is Shelby Foote's Civil War subject to so much contemporary debate?

The conservative plot to suppress the Black vote has relied on racist caricatures, then and now.

They’ve just been sitting in the dining room all this time.

Her memoirs contribute to the inaccurate post-Civil War memory of the Southern plantation.

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

The Civil War started with a surrender, ended with a series of surrenders, and had several of its major campaigns end in surrender.

Looking for traces of the last person ever owned by a U.S. president.

In 1874, Democrats picked up an astounding 94 seats in the 293-seat House.

Most of President Donald Trump's 20th-century predecessors expressed profound admiration for Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

From fee-based governance to the “friendships” between the rich and public officials, the 19th century practices we once banished are back.

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.

Historians agree on the top three. Below that, there are fascinating trends in opinion.

The emancipation of black Americans has been written out of our celebration of the Civil War's end.

The anxiety about “Mexicanization” that ran through Reconstruction-Era politics, as Americans saw disturbing political parallels with their southern neighbor.

The incredible story of how a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.

What the Constitution asks of us.

Greg Grandin’s new book tells the story of US expansionism and its complex relationship with the rest of the New World.

The radical legacy of Abram Colby, one of Georgia’s first Black legislators, was almost erased by racist revisionists.

The tale of how and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the U.S. 150 years ago is actually two tales and two intertwining histories.

The story of suffragist Matilda Gage, the woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her son-in-law L. Frank Baum as he wrote his classic novel.