Understanding and teaching U.S. lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history / edited by Leila J. Rupp, Susan K. Freeman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rupp, Leila J., 1950- editor.

Freeman, Susan Kathleen, editor.

Series:

Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history

The Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay and lesbian studies--Study and teaching--United States.

Gay and lesbian studies.

Sexual minorities--History--Study and teaching--United States.

Sexual minorities.

History.

United States.

Queer studies.

LGBTQ+ history.

LGBTQ+ people.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 392 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Understanding and teaching United States lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Though largely neglected in classrooms, LGBT history can provide both a fuller understanding of U.S. history and contextualization for the modern world. This is the first book designed for university and high school teachers who want to integrate queer history into the standard curriculum. With its inspiring stories, classroom-tested advice, and rich information, it is a valuable resource for anyone who thinks history should be an all-inclusive story. Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History offers a wealth of insight for teachers. Introductory essays by Leila J. Rupp and Susan K. Freeman make clear why queer history is important and provide global historical context, showing that same-sex sexual desire and gender change are not new, modern phenomena. Teachers in diverse educational settings provide narratives of their experiences teaching queer history. A topical section offers seventeen essays on such themes as sexual diversity in early America, industrial capitalism and emergent sexual cultures, and gay men and lesbians in World War II. Contributors include detailed suggestions for integrating these topics into a standard U.S. history curriculum, including creative and effective assignments. A final section addresses sources and interpretive strategies well suited to the history classroom. Taken as a whole, Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History will help teachers at all levels navigate through cultural touchstones and political debates and provide a fuller knowledge of significant events in history."--Publisher description.

Contents:

Introduction

The ins and outs of U.S. history: introducing students to a queer past / Susan K. Freeman and Leila J. Rupp

Outing the past: U.S. queer history in global perspective / Leila J. Rupp

pt. 1. The challenge of teaching lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history. Forty years and counting / John D'Emilio

Putting ideas into practice: high school teachers talk about incorporating LGBT past / Daniel Hurewitz

Questions, not test answers: teaching LGBT history in public schools / Emily K. Hobson and Felicia T. Perez

Observing difference: toward a pedagogy of historical and cultural intersections / Kevin Mumford

pt. 2. Topics in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history. Transforming the curriculum: the inclusion of the experiences of trans people / Genny Beemyn

Sexual diversity in early America / Thomas A. Foster

Nineteenth-century male love stories and sex stories / David D. Doyle, Jr

Romantic friendship: exploring modern categories of sexuality, love, and desire between women / Dáša Frančíková

Industrial capitalism and emergent sexual cultures / Red Vaughan Tremmel

Men and women like that: regional identities and rural sexual cultures in the South and Pacific northwest / Colin R. Johnson

The other war: gay men and lesbians in the Second World War / Marilyn E. Hegarty

The red scare's lavender cousin: the construction of the cold war citizen / David K. Johnson

Public figures, private lives: Eleanor Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, and a queer political history / Claire Bond Potter

Community and civil rights in the Kinsey era / Craig M. Loftin

Queers of hope, gays of rage: reexamining the sixties in the classroom / Ian Lekus

Sexual rights and wrongs: teaching the U.S. Supreme Court's greatest gay and lesbian hits / Marc Stein^^^e love stories and sex stories / David D. Doyle, Jr

Queer generations: teaching the history of same-sex parenting since the Second World War / Daniel Rivers

The New Right's antigay backlash / Whitney Strub

How to teach AIDS in a U.S. history survey / Jennifer Brier

"Don't ask, don't tell": the politics of military change / Aaron Belkin

Teaching same-sex marriage as U.S. history / Shannon Weber

pt. 3. Discovery and interpretation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history. History as social change: queer archives and oral history projects / Nan Alamilla Boyd

Teaching LGBT history through fiction: a story-logic approach to the problems of naming and evidence / Norman W. Jones

Screening the queer past: teaching LGBT history with documentary films / Nicholas L. Syrett

Popular culture: using television, film, and the media to explore LGBT history / Sharon Ullman

Queer history goes digital: using Outhistory.org in the classroom / Catherine O. Jacquet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lambda Literary Awards - LGBT Anthology, Winner, 2015

ISBN:

9780299313043

0299313042

OCLC:

959552265

Publisher Number:

40027000830