Description
Book SynopsisDesigned for teachers looking for new perspectives on teaching the recent past. Less of a traditional textbook than a pedagogical Swiss Army knife, the volume offers a diversity of voices and approaches to teaching a field that, by its very nature, invites vigorous debate and puts generational differences in stark relief.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Teaching Contemporary History since Reagan
- Amy L. Sayward and Kimber M. Quinney
- “Life, Liberty, or Property”: Analyzing American Identity through Open Resources
- Monica L. Butler
- Examining African American Voter Suppression, from Reagan to Trump
- Aaron Treadwell
- “Work Does Not Stop with This March on Washington”: LGBTQ+ National Mobilizations,
- 1979–2009
- Josh Cerretti
- Public Debate, Citizenship Participation, and Recent US Supreme Court Nominations
- Leah Vallely
- The Drug War Era: From the Crack Epidemic to the Opioid Crisis
- Kathryn McLain and Matthew R. Pembleton
- A Difficult Balance: National Security and Democracy from Reagan to Trump
- Kimber M. Quinney
- Explaining Waco: How Historians Come to Different Conclusions about What Really Happened
- Andrew Polk
- A Nation at Risk? Education Debates and Policies from Reagan to Trump
- Carl P. Watts
- Undermining the Sandbags: How Neoliberalism Encouraged Undocumented Migration, from the
- 1980s to the Early 2020s
- Benjamin C. Montoya
- Racializing Legality in Post-1965 Immigration Debates
- Natalie Mendoza
- Something Old, Something New, Something Purple? US Military Adaptation from the Renewed
- Cold War to Resurrected Confrontation
- Hal Friedman
- Arctic Nation: Climate Change Changes Policy
- Jeremy M. McKenzie and Laura Krenicki
- Pushing Back: Nuclear Disarmament and Peace Activism during the Cold War and Beyond
- Lori Clune
- Framing America for the World: Understanding US Foreign Policy Rhetoric: Using Presidential
- Speeches before the UN General Assembly
- Amy L. Sayward
- Teaching Women and US Foreign Policy: Hillary Rodham Clinton and Women’s Rights as
- Human Rights
- Allida Black and Kate English
- List of Contributors
- Index
