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Category: A Queer History of the United States
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By Gayatri Patnaik | A little over ten years ago, I found myself mulling over what kind of history books Beacon Press could successfully publish. With the incredible history titles published every year by both university and trade presses, what could Beacon do to distinguish our list in this competitive space? Certainly, the books would…
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By Michael Bronski It is impossible to overestimate the effect of World War II on American culture, and in particular on lesbians and gay men. The United States entered World War II, which had been ongoing since September 1939, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941. This decisive turning point in U.S. history…
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By Michael Bronski | The HIV/AIDS epidemic and the success of the battle for marriage equality have been, over the past thirty-five years, the two events that have most affected LGBT lives. These two phenomena—first the spread of a deadly virus that has killed thirty-four million people worldwide and close to 660,000 in the United…
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Michael Bronski discusses how the violence of the Civil War influenced ideas of masculinity in America.
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Graham crackers, Quakers, and anarchists: A conversation with Michael Bronski explores U.S. History through a queer lens.
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks gets a rave New York Times review, and author Jeanne Theoharis appears with another civil rights pioneer on Democracy Now.
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Michael Bronski looks at some seemingly steamy letters between 18th and 19th century men.
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Part three of an eight-part series of interviews with Michael Bronski about the A Queer History of the United States, this year’s Lambda Literary Award winner for LGBT Nonfiction.
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Michael Bronski talks about the terms Europeans applied–erroneously and pejoratively–to the Two-Spirit Native Americans they encountered.
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