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Category: History
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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 ethics of outing have long been debated, but what if it’s done posthumously? Rodger Streitmatter discusses Outlaw Marriages and why he feels historical outing is justified.
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The story of two Revolutionary-era teenagers who defy their Loyalist families to marry radical patriots, Henry Knox and Benedict Arnold.
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A selection of Beacon Press books that recount stories of the Holocaust.
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During Holocaust Remembrance week, Claire Conner looks back on the chilling experience of having a Holocaust denier in her parents’ living room.
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Lillian Faderman is an internationally known scholar of lesbian history and literature, as well as of ethnic and immigrant history. She is the author of such acclaimed works as To Believe in Woman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, Surpassing the Love of Men, I Begin My Life All Over, and her memoir Naked in the Promised Land. Last…
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An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States has been involved…
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An acclaimed writer on her mother’s tumultuous life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York and her life-long guilt when the Holocaust claims the family she left behind in Latvia
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Congress and the President honored Rosa Parks with a statue in the Capitol Rotunda, but our leaders missed the truly radical spirit of the lifelong activist.
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