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Archibald Butt: Presidential Aide and Titanic Victim, 1865-1912, by James Gifford
This exhibit introduces Archibald Butt, a journalist and U.S. presidential aide who died on the Titanic. The exhibit includes an interpretation of his life as queer by James Gifford. Published originally on OutHistory in 2012. Updated in 2024.
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Francis Davis Millet and Charles Warren Stoddard, 1874-1912, by Jonathan Ned Katz and Claude M. Gruener
This exhibit introduces and reproduces the correspondence of artist Francis Davis Millet and writer Charles Warren Stoddard. Published originally on OutHistory in 2012. Updated in 2024.
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Two U.S. Reviews of Andre Gide's Corydon (1949-50), by Jonathan Ned Katz
An exhibit featuring excerpts of two U.S. responses to the publication, in English translation by Hugh Gibb, of Andre Gide's defense of homosexuality in Corydon, with comments by Frank Beach (New York: Farrar, Straus, 1950). Corydon was…
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Do You Know Jonathan Ned Katz?: A 2023 Interview with Director Philip Harrison, by Joseph Plaster
A 2023 interview about the documentary film-in-progress Do You Know Jonathan Ned Katz?, which focuses on OutHistory's founder.
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The Standard Model of the Social-Historical Universe, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Two versions of a theoretical essay by OutHistory's founder. See also: Envisioning the World We Make, 2016-2021, by Jonathan Ned Katz.
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Society for Human Rights, 1924, by Jonathan Ned Katz
The original charter for the Society for Human Rights in Chicago, Illinois, with information about its founder, Henry Gerber, republished from Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History (1976).
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Sexuality and Biological Determinism, 1995, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Two 1995 letters to the editor by OutHistory founder Jonathan Ned Katz.
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Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson, 1846-1918, by Jonathan Ned Katz
An essay, originally published in The Advocate in 1989, about U.S. President Grover Cleveland's sister Rose and her partner.
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Revolution: American Colonial Settlers Make a New Nation, 1775-1860, Jonathan Ned Katz
Links for exhibits on Alexander Hamilton/John Laurens and Moreau de Saint Méry, along with profiles of Frederick von Steuben and Deborah Sampson, published originally on OutHistory in 2020.
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Poems by Jonathan Ned Katz
A series of poems written by OutHistory's founder over many years. Published originally in 2023.
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Patricia Highsmith/Jonathan Ned Katz Correspondence, 1980
In June 1980, OutHistory founder Jonathan Ned Katz wrote to Patricia Highsmith, asking her about her book The Price of Salt (1952), perhaps the first novel about lesbians that ended happily. This exhibit, first published on OutHistory in 2019,…
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New Preface to Gay American History, 1992, by Jonathan Ned Katz
From the "revised" edition of Gay American History (Meridian/New American Library, a division of Penguin Books, 1992). The only revision was this new preface, written in 1991.
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My Beloved Friend Carol Joyce (1926-2020), by Jonathan Ned Katz
Forced by the coronavirus pandemic to vacate the safe-house she occupied with her husband, Bob, Carol Joyce moved with him and a beloved cousin, Isabel Soffer, to Soffer’s country home. There, Carol, who had withdrawn in old age into herself, was…
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Melville's Secret Sex Text: Decoding His 1849 Novel Redburn, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Adapted from an essay about Henry Melville's novel in The Village Voice Literary Supplement, April 1982, pages 10-12. Copyright Jonathan Ned Katz. First published on OutHistory in 2020.
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Lucien Price: Homosexual Emancipation Pioneer (1883-1964), by Jonathan Ned Katz
An introduction to Junius Lucien Price, whose series of novels, All Souls, make him a pioneering homosexual author and resistor. Born in Kent, Ohio, Price attended Harvard University, worked as a journalist in Greater Boston, and began writing…
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Lillian Winters Lived as Man in St. Louis, 1900-1909, by Jonathan Ned Katz
First published on OutHistory in 2020.
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Jonathan Ned Katz: Resumé
A resumé and overview of the works of OutHistory's founder, an independent scholar, self-taught historian and visual artist.
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Jonathan Ned Katz on Fruit Punch Radio, March 23, 1977
In 1976, Jonathan Ned Katz published Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A., the first comprehensive book of documents on U.S. homosexual history, drawing on primary sources ranging from 1566 to 1972. In 1977, on a publicity tour…
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Eve Adams Archive, by Jonathan Ned Katz
This feature presents the following six sections: Eve Adams Chronology; Eve Adams Corrections; Eve Adams Documents; Eve Adams Pictures; Eve Adams Research Suggestions; Eve Adams Teaching Topics and Materials
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Envisioning the World We Make, 2016-2021, by Jonathan Ned Katz
See also: The Standard Model of the Social-Historical Universe, by Jonathan Ned Katz