President Trump and His Times
As a historian interested in contemporary politics, it is impossible to avoid asking how the…
Author Julian E. Zelizer
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.…
Directions for Digital HIV/AIDS History
Scholars are increasingly addressing the history of HIV/AIDS. I recently participated in the Journal of…
“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…
Plant and Clarke: Federal Segregation and Gold Star Mothers
Frances Clarke is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney in Australia. In 2011,…
Queer Digging in the Archives
A year ago, John D’Emilio began writing a series of blogs for OutHistory.org called “In…
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…