Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Franziska Anneke

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The lives, letters, and “romantic friendship” shared between two women during the nineteenth century.

The Correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1846-1894

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The first critical edition of the complete correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a founding figure in the history of sexuality.

Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education

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On the everyday rhetorical ingenuity of queer romantic letter-writing practices in the nineteenth-century United States.

Searching for Sex Crimes in Rural Nebraska

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Trips to courthouses across Nebraska raised important questions about how to conduct research on sexual violence in rural spaces.

The Victorian with a Secret

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One man’s private collection of Victorian pornography is now an important historical source.

Touch, Manhood, and the Boundaries of Same-Sex Intimacy in Nineteenth-Century Canada

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The 1838 Markland Inquiry historicizes male anxiety about same-sex intimacy and touch in nineteenth-century Canada.

Denounced: How Modernizing Mexico Criminalized Infanticide and Abortion

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In Mexico, colonial courts maintained relative silence about abortion and infanticide. Things changed in 1871.