Jim Downs

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Jim Downs

Jim Downs is an Andrew W. Mellon New Directions fellow at Harvard University and an associate professor of history at Connecticut College. He is the author of Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation (Basic Books, 2016) and Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Oxford U.P. 2012).

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