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From Bolívar to Bad Bunny, there is a long American history of emancipatory visions that transcend national borders. ⬇️ 🗃️
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We extend our gratitude and congratulations to all the authors represented here, and also to the authors of all the other terrific historical writing that we featured on our website in 2025. Please help us expand the audience for their important work by telling your friends about Bunk!
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American history does not end at the water's edge, of course. The nation's role in the world beyond its borders is the subject of this final set of illuminating historical reconsiderations:
Fair point! Though our project's mandate is "American history," hence the chronological skew.
Switching gears... how do we understand this thing called Trumpism? These five writers took the long view to help us tease out the continuities from the discontinuities, and to try and make sense of the figures at the center of it all.
The ways in which we understand the world around us are shaped by the stories that have circulated within our own families. This year, we were moved by the way that these five pieces reconsidered some of those family stories:
Some of our favorite history writing asks us to reconsider the ways in which we tend to think about the past. Here are a handful of essays in that vein that we found to be especially powerful:
