family values — Bunk History

Viewing 61–69 of 69 results. Go to first page

Football players kneeling in prayer on the field.

Football and the Political Act of Prayer

In football, prayer is—and has always been—political.

by Paul Putz via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on August 28, 2018

Billy Graham at the pulpit.

American Evangelicalism and the Politics of Whiteness

If white evangelicals are united by anything, it isn't theology.

by Seth Dowland via The Christian Century on June 19, 2018

A Spoonful of Sitcom Synergy: 25 Years of the "Disney Episode"

Why don't TV families go to Disney World as much as they used to?

by Myles McNutt via The A.V. Club on April 17, 2018

Still from Dirty Dancing.

In the Dark All Katz Are Grey: Notes on Jewish Nostalgia

Searching for where I belong, I find myself cobbling together a mongrel Judaism—half-remembered and contradictory and all mine.

by Samuel Ashworth via Hazlitt on February 23, 2018

Demonstrators protesting new history curriculum

How The Culture Wars Destroyed Public Education

The left's Pyrrhic victory in the culture wars.

by Andrew Hartman via Made By History on September 5, 2017

Your Child Care Conundrum Is an Anti-Communist Plot

Red-baiters deserve at least part of the blame for the shortage of affordable, high-quality pre-K.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on June 14, 2017

The Two Women’s Movements

Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on June 1, 2017

A group of two women and one child watches a military procession pass.

How the US Military Became a Welfare State

Long in retreat in the US, the welfare state found a haven in an unlikely place – the military, where it thrived for decades.

by Jennifer Mittelstadt via Aeon on September 21, 2015

Skull and crossbones with message reading "This is the place to affix the STAMP."

Paying Up: A History of Taxation

From the Stamp Act of 1765 to the Tea Party Movement, how have – and haven't – American attitudes about taxes changed over time?

via BackStory on April 12, 2013

brought to you by

© Bunk History