I had the pleasure of being a respondent at a conference in honor of Heather White and Anthony Petro’s path breaking publications Reforming Sodom and After the Wrath of God.
Recent Posts
CFP: Topics in Public History and the History of Sexuality
How do public historians engage with histories of sexuality?
“So Complicated”: The Sexual Politics of U.S. Health Care Reform
An examination of the historic beliefs and current thinking underpinning the Republican desire to repeal Obamacare.
Discovering Sex in the Civil War
Surrounded by death, Civil War soldiers found pleasure and fraternity in sharing erotic pictures and prints.
Child Sexual Abuse? A View from England in the Later Middle Ages
Bringing sex offenders to justice was as challenging in the Middle Ages as it is today.
Beyond the Culture Wars: Homosexual Histories 2016
Simon Copland highlights the big questions and controversies addressed at the 2016 Homosexual Histories Conference
Sexual Deviance and “Mental Defectiveness” in Eugenics Era California
The diagnosis of mental defectiveness legitimated the state’s reproductive control of sexually promiscuous and sexually violated girls and women.
