American History Too!

We return for the fourteenth

episode of American History Too! to

discuss a horrifying and shameful period in US history:  the outbreak and response to the HIV/AIDS

crisis during the 1980s. 

Academic impartiality

is at a premium as we delve into social and cultural reasons behind the US

government’s failure to tame the spread of the deadly virus.  We also consider the important cultural touchstones

that HIV/AIDS inspired and also the evolution of gay rights in the US.

For those interested,

the British broadcast about AIDS that begins the show can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SqRNUUOk7s 

The broadcast stood

in stark contrast to official US silence on the issue.

We’ll be back in a

couple of weeks to start our series entitled ‘The Revolutionary Sixties?’

Thanks again for

listening,

Mark & Malcolm                 

Contact at

@ahtoopodast or ahtoo@outlook.com

Reading List

Jennifer Brier, ‘“Save Our Kids, Keep AIDS Out”: Anti-AIDS

Activism and the Legacy of Community Control in Queens, New York’, Journal

of Social History, 39:4 (Summer, 2006), 965-987

Elizabeth Fee and Nancy Krieger, ‘The Emerging Histories of

AIDS: Three Successive Paradigms’, History and Philosophy of the Life

Sciences, 15:3 (1993), 459-487

Randy Shilts, And the band played on:  politics,

people, and the AIDS epidemic (New York:  Penguin, 1987)

Films and Documentaries

And the Band Played On , HBO film based on Randy Shilts book (1993)

Dir. Jonathan Demme,

Philadelphia (1993)

Angels in America, HBO miniseries (2003)

‘The Age of Aids,’ PBS

Frontline (2006) – numerous interviews available on website.

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