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Who Were History’s “Female Husbands”? with Professor Jen Manion

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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The Challenges of Document Historical Subjects

Historians rely on archives, so there has to be some piece of evidence or proof to support what you think is happening. We know a lot about politicians and governments but when it comes to learning about ordinary people, we usually have to rely on the words of others. Those are incredibly biased source. But they're often the only kind of things that we have a because people who get caught up in the system and arrested for having gay sex or transin gender,. One of the main ways historians have learned about them in the past is through police and court and prison records. I ask so many tons. So when we think about the 17 hundreds, which you now speaking of row and oak,

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