Intro to U.S. History: Gender, Sexuality, and Nonconformity

Course Description

Summary

This course is an introductory survey course of U.S. history that pays particular attention to changing norms around gender and sexuality, and how people contested or subverted those norms. Topics include: same-sex intimacy in Early America, turn of the century panics around miscegenation and white slavery, the invention of hetero and homosexuality, cross-dressing in the American West, and the HIV/AIDS crisis.

Morning sessions will be an interactive lecture followed by Q&A. Afternoon sessions are dedicated to discussion of weekly primary sources and readings.