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A Journey into American History

12 January 2027 · United States

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McBee combines memoir, reporting, and archives to ask how gender-variant lives have been remembered or erased across American history.

About the book

Thomas Page McBee combines personal writing, reporting and archival research to revisit gender-variant lives in American history. Traveling across periods and places, he examines how those lives have been recorded, misunderstood or erased, and how their stories reshape the present.