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A

"Awful Calamity": Sentiment, Gender, and Nation in the Richmond Theater Fire of 1811

A New History for American Masculinity

A Traffic in Men: Women Historians, Male Historical Subjects, and How Gender Seduces in a Context of Racial Power

Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism

Antifeminism and Cold War Politics

B

Before Trump: White Men, Masculinity, and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism, 1964–2016

Black Feminist Political Futures

Building an Intersectional Feminist Agenda in the 21st Century

Bury My Hero at Wounded Knee: Gender, Race, and Historical Practice in the Long 1970s

C

Changing Gender Roles from 1920 to the Present

Chicana Feminisms

Child’s Play: The Fight To Free Children from Gender Stereotypes in the 1970s

Christine in the Cutting Room

Citizens on the Job: Gender, Race, and Rights in Modern America

Contemporary Feminism and Civil Rights

Creating an American Home: Gender, Geography, and Resistance in America's Company Towns

Cross-Dressing for Empire: Race and Whiteness in Bohemian Grove Performances

Cross-Dressing Laws and Expansion of American Policing

D

Dependent Veterans: Settler Societies, Welfare States, and the Paradox of World War I–Era Military Masculinity

Dreams and Realities: Manhood and Masculinity in Postwar America, 1945–1965

F

Female Husbands and Their Doctors: The Case of James Allen, 1829

Fight like a Man: The Antebellum American Peace Movement and Its New Masculinities

From White Woman’s Burden to Orientalized Motherhood: The Strange Career of Dr. “Mom” Chung

G

Gender and Environmental History

Gender and Industrial Decline in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania

Gender and Military Migrations

Gender and Politics in Post-World War II America

Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World

Gender and Slavery in the Caribbean

Gender and Slavery in the United States

Gender Balances: Changes in Discourses

Gender, Justice, and Atlantic Revolutions

H

Her Dangerous Voice: Gender Trouble and Public Outrage in American Women’s History

I

Images of Diverse Womanhood in Late Twentieth-Century Urban America: The Case of Latasha Harlins, Soon Ja Du, and Joyce Karlin

J

"Jim Crow's Red Children," Gender, and Self-Determination in a Southern Tribal Community

M

Material Interests and Economic Realities in the Wars over Feminism in the U.S. in the 1970s

Motherhood, Citizenship, and the Persistence of the "Republican Mother"

R

Race, Gender, and Justice in U.S. History

Race, Gender, and Violence: The New American Politics?

Re-Reading Du Bois's Life and Scholarship through a Gendered Lens

Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Gender, Ritual, and Spirituality in Native American History

S

Sexual Modernism and Marriage Crisis in the 1920s

Sexuality and Gender in Early America

T

"Their Great Commoditie": Gender, Commodification, and the Origins of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

The Gendered Nature of Environmental History

The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Rethinking Women's Health and Second-Wave Feminism

The Politics of Dress: Gender, Imperialism, and Modernity

The Politics of Toughness: Conservatism, Masculinity, and American Culture in the Late Twentieth Century

The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

The War on Poverty from the Ground Up: A Fifty-Year Perspective

U

W

War Trauma, Military Psychiatry, and American Manhood in World War II

Was Mom Chung a "Sister Lesbian"? Asian American Gender Experimentation and Interracial Homoeroticism

What Can We Learn from the Male Flight Attendant?

What is this Thing Called "Gender"?

What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need

Women, Gender, and Religious Prejudice in American History

Women, Work, and Welfare: A History of Gender and Precarious Labor

Work, Family, and the Development of American Capitalism