Micki McElya

Micki McElya is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. Her latest book, The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

Just Wear Your Smile

The gender politics of Positive Psychology valorize the nuclear family and heterosexual monogamy.

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Who Is an Ally?

How the idea become central to present-day coalition building.

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Stonewall’s Radical Legacy

On the world gay liberationists hoped to create.

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The Education of an Ambivalent Feminist

Tara Westover’s best-selling memoir may reveal more about the place of feminism in contemporary U.S. life than any book in recent memory.

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