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At the start of my research into LGBTQIA+ women of the Revolutionary and Founding Eras, I was told that at that time LGBTQIA+ women, as a concept, did not exist. The people who espoused this theory
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When I first started thinking about the fact that there were LGBTQIA+ people in the late eighteenth century, I imagined that this was something so far from the comprehension of people at the time
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Aaron Burr is an underrated figure in United States history, not necessarily because he was a much better person than most people believe (that much is open to debate) but because he is far more
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Olaudah Equiano, also known as Gustavas Vassa, earned his place in history by writing what is considered the first Slave Narrative. Equiano’s book, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah
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When she was six years old, Mary Eleanor Laurens declared that she wanted to become a boy. Was she trying to escape society's limitations on girls, or was she
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Deborah Sampson Ganett is known as a feminist icon. But is it possible she deserves to be heralded as a lesbian icon as
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The rumor that James Madison was asexual has been all around the internet. How much of it is
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Researchers recently confirmed that Casimir Pulaski, hero of Polish and American Independance, was intersex. Was does this mean, and how does it change Pulaski's
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Who was Charles Adams, and why has he been forgotten by
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In the late eighteenth century, queer men were supposed to feel strange, unwanted, and alone. That didn't stop Baron von Steuben from building his own kind of
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By the time Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens ended up on George Washington's staff, both had known more than their share of heartbreak. They did not know they were both about to find someone just
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Though he should be celebrated as a hero, both for military and civic accomplishments, John Laurens has been all but forgotten. When historians do attempt to study him, they often come up with an