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Blasphemy: The Prosecution of Religious and Sexual Dissent in the Nineteenth Century

C

Christians, Sex, and Politics: An American History

E

Everybody Knew He Was "That Way": Clarence H. Cobbs and Black Sexuality in Migration-Era Chicago

H

How to Have History during an Epidemic: Can History Make You Healthy?

I

Imagining the Eternal Village: Death and Working-Class Intimacy in Nineteenth-Century America

In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archive of Modern Sexuality

Interracial Sex and Slave Women's Labor in the Old South

Intimate Lives: Sex and Love in Victorian America

K

Know(ing) When You See It: Pornography and the Sexual Culture of U.S. Army Camps in the Civil War

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Love Letters: Revealing the Intimate Past

O

Our Closets, Ourselves: Reconfiguring the Notion of the Closet in African American Religious Cultures

Out and on the Outs: The Challenge to Black Heterosexual Identity in the 1990s.

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Primitives, Pagans, and Savage Rivals: Sex and the Shaping of the Historical Study of Religion

R

Race and Sexuality in American History

Race, Sex, and Celibacy in the Kingdom of Father Divine

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Sex and Sexuality in Early America

Sex and the Civil Rights Movement

Sex and the Suffrage Movement

Sexual Modernism and Marriage Crisis in the 1920s

Sexuality and Gender in Early America

Sexy from the Start: Female Sexuality and the Second Wave of Feminism

States of Desire: How Sex Education Encircled the Globe

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The Price of Liberty: The New Right's Sexual Politics from Phyllis Schlafly to Karl Rove

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Victorian Courtship Rituals and the Dramas of Private Life: Testing Romantic Love

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Working-Class Courtship As Tribal Ritual: Non-Romantic Mate Selection in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Laboring Class