History
Thomas Foster, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair
Phone: 773-325-4169
Office: SAC 422
Email: tfoster4@depaul.edu
Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Research and Teaching Interests
Research and Teaching Interests
- Early America
- U.S. Women's and Gender History
- American Revolution
- History of Sexuality
- U.S. Social and Cultural History
Courses Offered
- LSP 200: Race and Ethnicity in Early America
- LSP 200: Multiculturalism and U.S. Women's History
- HST 275: Sex in America: From Puritans to Victorians
- HST 181: U.S. to 1800
- HST 288: U.S. Women's History
- HST 354: U.S. Women's History
- HST 370: American Colonial History
- HST 422: Seminar in Primary Source Analysis
- HST 431: Colloquium in American History: British Colonial and Revolutionary America
- HST 431: Colloquium in American History: Race and Ethnicity in Early America
- HST 431: Colloquium in American History: Sex and Gender in Early America
Affiliations
- Women's and Gender Studies—DePaul University
- LGBTQ Studies—DePaul University
- African and Black Diaspora Studies—DePaul University
Works-in-Progress
- Editor, Women in Early America: Transnational Histories, Rethinking Master Narratives (Under contract, NYU Press).
Publications
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Books
- Sex and the Founding Fathers (Temple University Press, 2014)
- Editor, Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America (U Chicago Press, 2012)
- Editor, Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America. (New York University Press, 2007).
- Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America
(Beacon Press, 2006).
Essays
- “Reconsidering Libertines and Early Modern Heterosexuality: Sex and American Founder, Gouverneur Morris,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 22 (January 2013): 65-84.
- “Recovering Washington’s Body-Double: Disability and Manliness in the Life and Legacy of a Founding Father,” Disability Studies Quarterly (January 2012).
- “Sex Between Men in the Eighteenth Century,” reprint of Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America (Boston: Beacon Press, 2006), ch. 7, in Elizabeth Reis, ed., American Sexual Histories 2nd edition (Blackwell, 2012).
- “The Sexual Abuse of Black Men Under American Slavery,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 20 (September 2011): 445-64.
- “John Adams and the Choice of Hercules: Manliness and Sexual Virtue in Eighteenth-Century British America,” in New Men: Manliness in Early America, ed., Thomas A. Foster, (New York: New York University Press, 2011).
- “Antimasonic Satire, Sodomy and Eighteenth-Century Masculinity in The Boston Evening-Post,” Notes and Documents, The William and Mary Quarterly 60 (January 2003): 171-84.
http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/wm/60.1/notes_foster.html
- “Deficient Husbands: Manhood, Sexual Incapacity, and Male Marital Sexuality in Seventeenth-Century New England,” The William and Mary Quarterly 56 (October 1999): 723-44. Reprinted in American Experiences: Readings in American History, Volume 1 to 1877 5th edition, eds., Randy Roberts and James S. Olson, (New York: Longman, 2002).
http://www.ablongman.com/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,032121644X-DS,00.htm
Op-Ed
- “Rep. Todd Akin’s Ideas About Rape Hark Back to the Colonial Era,” LA Times, August 22, 2012.
- "'In God We Trust' or 'E Pluribus Unum'? The Founding Fathers Preferred the Latter Motto," History News Network, November 8, 2011.
- "On Media Reports of Flash Mobs and Black Masculinity,” From The Square: NYU Press Blog, July 12, 2011.
- "A Question of Power, Not Sex," Bakersfield Californian, October 9, 2010.
- "Voting Away Others' Rights," Detroit Free Press, November 13, 2008.
- "This Won't Be the Last Political Scandal," Tallahassee Democract, March 14, 2008.
- "Time for the Senate to Act: Hatred Against Gays Hurt us All," Chicago Sun-Times, August 27, 2007.
- "Did Early Americans Have a Sexual Identity?" History News Network, December 11, 2006.
- "Sex and the American Politician," San Francisco Chronicle, November 12, 2006.