It’s a wonderful time to be a history graduate student thinking about careers outside of the academy! Our discipline’s major professional organization, the American Historical
The Chicago area is something of a hotbed of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) history. At the turn of the twentieth century, the first
Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites is now a reality! I wrote this book to provide a road map for those in the
On Thursday, October 16, 2014, 2:00-3:30 eastern daylight time, I will be partnering with the Creative Learning Factory to offer a webinar entitled, “LGBT Programming
It has been an intense and rewarding summer 2014, and I have been so busy finishing my book, beginning new projects, and talking about history
History is everywhere. That’s one of the reasons I enjoy this work so much. I have given talks on the Golden Age of Hollywood at
For the past few months, I have been consulting with Blithewold Mansion, Garden, & Arboretum as the organization prepares to undertake a National Historic Landmark
Last week, we passed the one-year anniversary of “Telling the Whole Story: Women and the Making of the United States,” a meeting of the minds
Between 2009 and 2011, I had the pleasure to serve as project manager for team of historians–Marla Miller, Gary Nash, David Thelen, and Anne Whisnant–assessing
Truth be told, I started doing oral history back in the ’90s. I was a community activist long before I was an academically-trained historian, and
