President Trump and His Times
As a historian interested in contemporary politics, it is impossible to avoid asking how the…
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Region, Space, and Place in Queer History
Most queer people do not grow up in queer families or queer communities, and this…
Houston Reviewed A Selected Bibliography
Flooding after Hurricane Harvey. Photograph by Daniel J. Martinez. A joint project of the American…
Houston before and after Harvey
Houston Skyline. Photo by Om. Creative Commons license. Despite being the nation’s fourth largest city…
The Baker Street Vice Ring and the Birth of the Asian American Homo
A number of historians have marked the late nineteenth century as the beginning of U.S.…
“Have We a New Sex Problem Here?” Black Queer Women in the Early Great Migration
In November of 1920, the black newspaper The Chicago Whip ran a front-page article with…
Reparation as Fantasy Remembering the Black-Fisted Silent Protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games
On October 17, 2005, San Jose State University unveiled a twenty-foot fiberglass statue of Tommie…
National Coming Out Day
Photo by MarceloMedia. Creative Commons license. Today, October 11, is National Coming Out Day. October…
Teaching in the Wake of Charlottesville
Charlottesville Candlelight Vigil, Washington, D.C., August 13, 2017. Photo: Ted Eytan. Creative Commons license. …
Recontextualizing the Ocean Blue Italian Americans and the Commemoration of Columbus
Maledetto Cristoforo Colombo e quando ha scoperto l’America. (Damn Christopher Columbus and his discovery of…