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Book SynopsisThis volume provides pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, social studies methods teachers, and college level social studies content faculty a variety of resources for teaching and learning about the New Deal Era. Written with teachers in mind, each chapter introduces content that both addresses and disrupts master narratives concerning the historical significance of the New Deal era, while offering a creative pedagogical approach to reconciling instructional challenges. The book offers teachers a variety of ways to engage middle and high school students in economic and political arguments about American capitalism and the role of the federal government in defining and sustaining capitalism, as sparked by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal policies. Among the significant actors in the chapters are women, Indigenous/Native, African-descended, Latinx, Asian Pacific Island, and LGBTQ+ people. The New Deal generation included farmers, sharecroppers, industrial workers, and
Table of ContentsAndrea Guiden Pittman/Jenice L. View: Preface – Jenice L. View: Stepping into the New Deal: A Meet and Greet – John R. Gram: Teaching the Indian New Deal – Daniella Ann Cook/Jeffrey C. Eargle: Centering the Black Experience in Teaching the New Deal – Yolanda Chávez Leyva: Years of Desperation, Years of Hope: The New Deal on the Border – Andrea Guiden Pittman: LGBTQIA+ Figures and the New Deal – John H. Bickford: When Change Confronts Continuity: The Roosevelts’ Battles Over Civil Rights – Angela Y. Wang: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Revered President or Overt Racist? – Elizabeth Milnarik/Jenice L. View: The Federally Funded American Dream: Public Housing and the New Deal – Scott L. Roberts/Charles Elfer: Hollywood or History? The Grapes of Wrath (1940) – Adam Sanchez: The New New Deal: Teaching a People’s History of the New Deal – Matthew Campbell: Beyond the New Deal: Historiography and Pedagogy in the Classroom – Whitney G. Blankenship/Caroline R. Pryor/Amy Wilkinson: Resources and Lesson Plans – Appendix A – Appendix B – Contributors – Index.
