"Things fearful to name": sodomy and buggery in seventeenth century New England / R. Oaks -- Eighteenth-century American women in peace and war: the case of the loyalists / M.B. Norton -- The mountain man as Western hero: Kit Carson / H.N. Smith -- "A partnership of equals": feminist marriages in 19th-century America / B.G. Hersh -- The "poor man's club": social functions of the urban working-class saloon / J.M. Kingsdale -- The Boy Scouts and the validation of masculinity / J.P. Hantover -- Vietnam and the cult of toughness in foreign policy / M. Fasteau.