Timeline: Sodomy Cases Appealed, U.S., 1800-1899, by Jonathan Ned Katz

OutHistory is enlisting researchers in a project to copy and place on OutHistory the published reports and original records of all 19th-century U.S. legal cases (about 150 currently identified) that include the terms “buggery,” “crime against nature,” or “sodomy.”

Origin date: November 10, 2010. Last revision: December 15, 2021.

For a related OutHistory feature see:
Timeline: Sodomy Cases in U.S. Newspapers: 1800-1899