20th and 21st Century United States

By Donna Drucker 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body

In the early 1960s, Purdue created an atmosphere that increased female students’ freedom, but only provided piecemeal sex education and counseling.

By Andrew Lester 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

The Rejected was a groundbreaking representation of gays in the American media.

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body

On Christmas Eve 1955, Jacqueline Smith died from an illegal abortion at her boyfriend Thomas G. Daniel’s apartment.

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Christmas experiences of those stuck outside the quintessential white, middle-class, nuclear family.

The metaphor of rape has framed understandings of the U.S. military’s occupation of Okinawa.

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, Trans

The conservative idea that civil rights protections sexually endanger women and children in public bathrooms is not new.

By Janet Golden 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth

Serendipitously, on June 26, 2015, I found several letters to Spock regarding homosexuality.