This semester at Colgate, I’ve revised my upper-level History course, HIST 304 | Sex and Sexualities in U.S. History. In a few weeks, I’ll be chairing an excellent panel of scholars on a research panel on Sex and Religion, sponsored by S-USIH, the Society of US Intellectual History. The panel will take place on Zoom March 1 at 7pm eastern [you can register in advance, here].
I’ve also started updating my unwieldy list of Digital Archives, Projects & Resources for U.S. Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality History for research and teaching.
We don’t have nearly enough time to explore 250 years of U.S. history, but I’m excited to get students reading some of my favorite history sites, too, including:
- Carolyn Herbst Lewis, “Adventures in the Archives: Julia Heller’s ‘Boy Friends Book,’” Nursing Clio (February 6, 2014);
- Caitlin Galante-DeAngelis Hopkins, “‘Well Known as Miss Betty Cooper’: Gender Expression in 18th-Century Boston,” NOTCHES: (re)marks on the history of sexuality (November 28, 2018);
- Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity online roundtable, with C. Riley Snorton, Julio Capó, Jr., Alejandro Escalante, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, L. H. Stallings, Jennifer C. Nash, and Rachel Zellars, Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS);
- Black Thought and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Guy Emerson Mount, Black Perspectives (January 17, 2019);
- Amy Stanley, “Writing the History of Sexual Assault in the Age of #MeToo,” AHA Perspectives on History (September 24, 2018); and
- “Making Gay History” and “Sexing History” podcasts.
I’ll be tweeting some course highlights using the hashtag #HIST304 and I’m always curious how others are teaching similar courses.
Got a great primary source or idea to share? Hit me up!
Monica L. Mercado, Ph.D. 