An Introduction to QueerCountry.org
July 24, 2009
An introduction to Queer Country, the blog counterpart to Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America by Mary L. Gray. What this site is about?… READ MORE
July 24, 2009
An introduction to Queer Country, the blog counterpart to Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America by Mary L. Gray. What this site is about?… READ MORE
July 22, 2009
Salon.com has a great interview with Babysitter author Miriam Forman-Brunell. It covers all aspects of the babysitting spectrum, from history.. Has there ever been a golden age of baby sitting?… READ MORE
July 21, 2009
Cross-posted from Gotham Lost and Found, the blog of David Freeland, author of Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure. The other day my friend and… READ MORE
July 20, 2009
This article features our Fall 2009 title The Fat Studies Reader, edited by Esther D. Rothblum and Sondra Solovay One of the most comprehensive data sets available about Americans—how tall… READ MORE
July 16, 2009
By Constance Rosenblum. Cross-posted from boulevard-of-dreams.com, the website for the forthcoming book Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx The other day… READ MORE
July 14, 2009
In today’s issue of the WSJ… Babysitter: An American History By Miriam Forman-Brunell (NYU Press, 313 pages, $29.95) Review By LAURA VANDERKAM Like many girls, I began my adventures in… READ MORE
July 13, 2009
An article by Arnaldo Testi, author of the forthcoming Capture the Flag: The Stars and Stripes in American History. When, on July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin… READ MORE
July 10, 2009
A podcast from WOSU’s Open Line, featuring the author of Bloody Lowndes. TUESDAY 7/710:00 AM – Civil Rights MovementWe’ll hear how African-Americans in a rural county in Alabama contributed to… READ MORE