Assimilation or Resistance: The Politics of Gender Performance Among West German Homosexuals, 1945-1969

Far from a clean break from the Nazi past, Germany’s “Zero Hour” retained many of the same attitudes which permitted the Reich’s twelve-year reign. While most of the Nazi era laws were repealed or changed, Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code was not. First put into law in 1871 and expanded under the Third…

Trader, Physician, Missionary: The Quiet Christianity of William Fraser Tolmie and the H.B.C.

While the economic and political aspects of the fur trade get considerable focus, many scholars have neglected the cultural practices and beliefs of traders and Hudson’s Bay Company [HBC] employees. No aspect of fort life makes this more apparent than religion. As I intend to show, religion continued to be a significant concern for traders…

Imperial Ignorance, Imperial Amnesia: Camas and Indigenous-Settler Relations in the Pacific Northwest

While most historiography on the effects of colonization on flora concerns plants transferred between the metropole and the periphery and vice versa, Camas failed to do so, despite occupying a substantial place in the Pacific Northwest’s history. Camas (from the Nez Perce word qém̓es, meaning “sweet”) is the vernacular name for camassia, a genus of…