Bunk combs the web for new interpretations of American history, and highlights the fascinating connections between them.
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American Foodways
This exhibit explores the history of the ways Americans eat, from the influences on our cooking to the regional specificities of our meals to the ways we celebrate around family tables.
Book Review
The Spirit of '76: A Jewish Perspective on the American Revolution
What was “exceptional” about the American Revolution wasn’t so much the creation of a single republic but the immediate opportunity it provided for action.
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Thanksgiving
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Book Review
A Sudden, Revealing Searchlight
On Jean Strouse and the art of biography.
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Deep Time and the Civil War Dead
The Civil War's vast death toll joined Earth's deep time story, magnifying its meaning as part of God's creative acts across eons.
Book Review
The Complex Politics of Tribal Enrollment
How did the U.S. government become involved in “adjudicating Indianness”?
Book Review
How Cancel Culture Panics Ate the World
A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents.