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Archives and online collections in U.S. LGBT history
(cc photo by library riot) This post accompanies a talk I’m giving today about my current research at Cornell’s Human Sexuality Collection. I’ll be speaking about my dissertation, with a focus on its...
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New England roundup #19
1890 John Singer Sargent painting of Henry Cabot Lodge (cc photo by cliff1066) Some miscellany from the past few weeks: Two years after Democrats swept every U.S. House race in New England, how big a...
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Graphing the Democrats’ rise in New England
One of the things that first spurred me to think seriously about New England’s complex regional history in the twentieth century, and its evolving place within the larger nation, was the Congressional...
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New England roundup #20
Counting paper ballots in Cornwall, VT, in 2004 (cc photo by origamidon) With the 2010 elections in the books, the AP declares, “The GOP resurgence sputters in most of New England.” But Jay...
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The “It Gets Better” videos as historical sources
Word cloud based on six "It Gets Better" videos, by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joel Burns, Perez Hilton, Tim Gunn, and Google employees. The “It Gets Better” project, initiated by sex advice...
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Roundup: historians react to DADT repeal
Envelope mailed December 27, 1944. Full details and image credit below. Since Saturday’s Senate vote repealing the U.S. military’s seventeen-year-old “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy regarding gay...
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Equality Matters and the new gay activism
Yesterday came news of Equality Matters, a new creation of Media Matters for America, the liberal media watchdog founded by gay conservative-turned-liberal journalist David Brock in 2004. Equality...
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“And the bells were ringing out for Christmas Day…”
To those of you celebrating, Merry Christmas! If you’re in the mood for some history today, check out this really interesting interview with religious studies scholar Brett Landau, discussing a number...
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Some reflections on following the AHA on Twitter
Tweets tagged #AHA2011 I wasn’t able to make it to the annual meeting of the American Historical Association this past weekend, but my absence gave me my first real opportunity to follow a major...
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A quick queer history pilgrimage
I’ve been submerged lately in the records of the Gay Activists Alliance, the most prominent gay activist organization in New York City during the early 1970s. From 1971 until the building was heavily...
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Big congratulations to Alice Baumgartner, winner of the California Book Award Gold Medal for Nonfiction for SOUTH TO FREEDOM!
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MAAH Stone Short List
VANGUARD and THE BROKEN HEART OF AMERICA are on both on the 2021 MAAH Stone Book Award Short List! Congratulations to Martha S. Jones and Walter Johnson.
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Coming soon: TORN APART
I’m thrilled that TORN APART: HOW THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM DESTROYS BLACK FAMILIES––AND HOW ABOLITION CAN BUILD A SAFER WORLD, an urgent new book from the brilliant Dorothy Roberts, is now available...
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