How to Study an American Sex Scandal

By Andrew Burstein 20th and 21st Century United States 0 comments

When does sex become a political weapon?

Presidential Penis Politics: A Micro-History

By Rachel Hope Cleves Early America 2 comments

Donald J. Trump’s penis, size unknown, has reared its head as a political issue.

Inventing the Family Farm: Towards a History of Rural Heterosexuality  

By Gabriel Rosenberg 20th and 21st Century United States 1 comment

In the postwar United States, the state’s project of preserving the family farm was yoked to its project of making the modern American family.

“Arresting Dress”: A Student Interview with Clare Sears

By Rachel Hope Cleves Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Pedagogy, Trans 0 comments

Clare Sears’ Arresting Dress examines the effects of San Francisco’s 1863 cross-dressing ordinance.

A Christmas Abortion

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body 1 comment

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

AIDS, Sexuality and American Religion: An Interview With Anthony Petro

By Anthony Petro 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

Religious responses to the emergence of AIDS in the United States in the 1980s and 90s.

“The Gay Revolution”: An Interview with Lillian Faderman

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ 0 comments

The Gay Revolution provides a moving account of the LGBT movement in the United States.