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Category: History
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In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, we interviewed author Kim E. Nielsen, author of A Disability History of the United States, about the history of disability in North American Indigenous culture.
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The first book about the runaway slave phenomenon written by fugitive slaves themselves.
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Amy Alexander writes about a documentary James Baldwin filmed in San Francisco the year she was born.
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In anticipation of Independence Day, read a patriotic excerpt from Nancy Rubin Stuart’s book The Muse of the Revolution.
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The words of Frederick Douglass on the meaning of Independence Day continues to hold meaning for many who find it hard to embrace the holiday.
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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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In this first of a series of podcasts, Michael Bronski discusses A Queer History of the United States, and how his approach to history looks at American through a queer lens.
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The engaging and untold stories of fifteen prominent same-sex couples who defied cultural norms and made signifcant contributions to American history.
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