Understanding and teaching contemporary US history since Reagan /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Quinney, Kimber Marie (Editor), Sayward, Amy L., 1969- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2022]
Series:Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.