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Published on July 23, 2019

Doctor Balcerski in the news

tombalcerski.ashx_-e1440524951928.jpg9780190914592.jpgPete Buttigieg

Assistant Professor of History Tom Balcerski (shown above, on the left) has been in the news recently. Dr. Balcerski's first book, Bosom Friends: the Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King, will be released by Oxford University Press later this summer. It explores the lives and relationship between this President and Vice President pair, challenging our modern assumptions about historical same-sex relationships and their place in early American public life. With Pete Buttigieg (above, on the right), the openly gay mayor of South Bend Indiana, running to be the next president, Dr. Balcerski's book strikes a timely chord. As such, he has given interviews for both Time Magazine and NBC News, discussing the historical significance of Mayor Buttigieg's candidacy. In Faulkner's words, "the past isn't over. It isn't even past."

Image credits: ECSU; Oxford University Press; City of South Bend