Keeping Secrets in the 1950s
Americans in the 1950s, yearning to return to normalcy after the Great Depression and World War II, got married, had lots of kids, and used their newly middle-class status to buy cookie-cutter houses ...
21 Nov 202245min
Gordon Merrick
In 1970, writer Gordon Merrick published The Lord Won’t Mind, advertised as “the first homosexual novel with a happy ending,” his fifth novel but first to focus on a gay romance story. The novel was a...
14 Nov 202246min
Elsie Robinson
As a girl born in 1883 to a family who couldn’t afford to send her to college, Elsie Robinson had limited options. To escape the drudgery of small-town life and then a stifling marriage, Elsie wrote. ...
7 Nov 202241min
The Politics of Reproductive Rights in 1960s & 1970s New York
Prior to the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, much of the focus of reproductive rights organizing in the US was done in the states, and nowhere was that more effective than in New York, where leftist fem...
31 Okt 202249min
The 1966 Division Street Uprising & the Puerto Rican community in Chicago
In 1966, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley declared that the first week of June would be known as “Puerto Rican Week,” culminating in the first Puerto Rican Parade, to honor the growing Puerto Rican popu...
24 Okt 202251min
Bert Corona
Labor leader and immigrant rights activist Bert Corona viewed Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants in the United States, both with and without documentation, as one people without borders, and he ...
17 Okt 202247min
The Effect of the Mexican Revolution on Mexican Immigration to the U.S.
The Mexican Revolution in the early 20th Century was a pivotal moment in Mexican history, and it was also a pivotal moment in United States history, as huge numbers of Mexicans fled war-torn Mexico an...
10 Okt 202235min
Southwest Borderlands in the 19th Century
Through the 19th Century, the US-Mexico border moved repeatedly, and the shifting borderlands were a space of cultural and economic transition that often gave rise to racialized gendered violence. In...
3 Okt 202247min
