Table Of ContentUWP: Rupp&Freeman.: Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian … page i
Under stand ing and Teachi ng
U.S. Lesb ian, Gay, Bis ex ual, and Transg en der
His tory
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The Har vey Goldb erg Se ries
for Unders tandi ng and Teach ing His tory
The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History
gives college and secondary history instructors a deeper understanding of
the past as well as the tools to help them teach it creatively and effectively.
Each volume focuses on a specific historical topic and offers a wealth of content
and resources, providing concrete examples of how teachers can approach
the subject in the classroom. Named for Harvey Goldberg, a professor renowned
for his history teaching at Oberlin College, Ohio State University, and the
University of Wisconsin from the 1960s to the 1980s, the series reflects
Goldberg’s commitment to helping students think critically about the past
with the goal of creating a better future. For more information, please visit
www.GoldbergSeries.org.
Series Editors
John Day Tully is an associate professor of history at Central
Connecticut State University and was the founding director of the Harvey Goldberg
Center for Excellence in Teaching at Ohio State University.
Matthew Masur is an associate professor of history at Saint Anselm
College, where he is codirector of the Father Guerin Center for Teaching Excellence. He is
a member of the Teaching Committee of the Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations and writes on American-Vietnamese relations.
Brad Austin is a professor of history at Salem State University. He has
served as chair of the American Historical Association’s Teaching Prize Committee and
has worked with hundreds of secondary school teachers as the academic coordinator of
many Teaching American History grants.
Advisory Board
Kevin Boyle Northwestern University
Ross Dunn Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University
Leon Fink UIC Distinguished Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kimberly Ibach Meeker High School, Meeker, Colorado
Alfred W. McCoy J.R.W. Smail Professor of History, Director, Harvey Goldberg Center
for the Study of Contemporary History, University of Wisconsin–Madison
David J. Staley Director, Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching, Ohio
State University
Maggie Tran McLean High School, McLean, Virginia
Sam Wineburg Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and (by courtesy) of History,
Director, Stanford History Education Group, Stanford University
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Unders tand ing and Teach ing
U.S. Lesb ian, Gay, Bis ex ual,
and Transg end er His tory
Ed ited by
Leila J. Rupp
Susan K. Freem an
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1. Gay and lesb ian studi es—Study and teachi ng— United States.
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I. Rupp, Leila J., 1950–, edi tor of com pil a tion.
II. Free man, Susan Kathl een, edi tor of com pil a tion.
III. Se ries: Har vey Goldb erg se ries for unders tand ing and teach ing his tory.
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Con tents
Pref ace ix
Introd uct ion
The Ins and Outs of U.S. His tory: Intro duc ing
Stu dents to a Queer Past 3
susan k. free man and leila j. rupp
Outi ng the Past: U.S. Queer His tory in Glo bal
Per spect ive 17
leila j. rupp
Part One: The Chal lenge of Teach ing
Les bian, Gay, Bi sex ual, and Trans gend er
Hist ory
Forty Years and Count ing 33
john d’emilio
Putt ing Ideas into Pract ice: High School Teache rs Talk
about In cor po rat ing the LGBT Past 47
dan iel hurew itz
Quest ions, Not Test An swers: Teach ing LGBT His tory
in Publ ic Schools 77
emily k. hob son and fel i cia t. perez
Obs erv ing Dif fer ence: To ward a Ped a gogy of His tor i cal
and Cul tural Inter sec tions 92
kevin mum ford
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one line long
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Part Two: Top ics in Les bian, Gay, Bi sex ual,
and Transg en der Hist ory
Transf orm ing the Cur ric u lum: The In clu sion of the
Ex per i ences of Trans Peop le 111
genny bee myn
Sex ual Di ver sity in Early Amer ica 123
thomas a. fos ter
Nineteenth-Century Male Love Sto ries and Sex Sto ries 132
david d. doyle jr.
Rom an tic Friends hip: Ex plor ing Mod ern Cat e go ries of
Sex u al ity, Love, and De sire between Women 143
dáˇsa franˇcíková
In dus trial Cap i tal ism and Emer gent Sex ual Cul tures 153
red vau ghan tremm el
Men and Women Like That: Re gional Iden tities and
Rural Sexu al Cul tures in the South and Pa cific
North west 166
colin r. john son
The Other War: Gay Men and Les bians in the Sec ond
World War 178
mar i lyn e. he garty
The Red Scare’s Lav en der Cou sin: The Con struct ion of
the Cold War Cit i zen 186
david k. john son
Publ ic Fig ures, Pri vate Lives: El eanor Roose velt, J. Edgar
Hoover, and a Queer Pol it i cal His tory 199
claire bond pot ter
Com mu nity and Civil Rights in the Kin sey Era 213
craig m. lof tin
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Queers of Hope, Gays of Rage: Re ex am in ing the Six ties
in the Classr oom 224
ian lekus
Sex ual Rights and Wrongs: Teach ing the U.S. Su preme
Court’s Great est Gay and Les bian Hits 238
marc stein
Queer Gene r a tions: Teach ing the His tory of Same-Sex
Pa rent ing since the Sec ond World War 254
dan iel riv ers
The New Right’s Anti gay Back lash 265
whit ney strub
How to Teach AIDS in a U.S. His tory Sur vey 279
jen nif er brier
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”: The Pol i tics of Mil i tary Change 289
aaron bel kin
Teachi ng Same-Sex Mar riage as U.S. His tory 295
shan non weber
Part Three: Dis cov ery and Inter pre ta tion
of Lesb ian, Gay, Bi sex ual, and Trans gend er
Hist ory
His tory as So cial Change: Queer Archives and Oral
His tory Pro jects 311
nan al a milla boyd
Teachi ng LGBT Hist ory through Fic tion: A Story-Logic
Ap proach to the Prob lems of Nam ing and Ev i dence 320
norm an w. jones
Screeni ng the Queer Past: Teach ing LGBT Hist ory with
Doc u men tary Films 331
nicho las l. sy rett
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Popu lar Cul ture: Using Tele vi sion, Film, and the Media
to Exp lore LGBT Hist ory 343
sharon ullm an
Queer Hist ory Goes Dig i tal: Using Out his tory.org in
the Class room 352
cathe rine o. jac quet
Con trib u tors 365
Index 371
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Pref ace
As the title of this book an nounces, it is de signed for those who teach
U.S. his tory at the sec ond ary or uni vers ity level and want to in te grate
les bian, gay, bi sexu al, and trans gend er his tory into the U.S. his tory
cur ric u lum. But we also hope it will reach anyo ne who sim ply wants to
under stand what queer his tory has to add to the tra di tional his tor i cal
nar ra tive. We offer here in spir ing sto ries of teach ers in the trenches,
short ess ays on top i cal and chrono log i cal slices of hist ory that sum up
what we know, and re flec tions on a var iety of means of ac cess ing queer
his tory for use in the classr oom and bey ond.
The en thu siasm with which the twenty-seven au thors fea tured in
these pages re sponded to our re quest to con trib ute to this vol ume is a
sign of how com mit ted schol ars and teach ers of queer his tory are to
mak ing a diff er ence. Di gest ing the schola r ship on a par ticu lar topic and
think ing through the ways that it can be in cor po rated in a U.S. his tory
sur vey, re flect ing on the ex pe ri ence of teach ing in a way that speaks to
oth ers, and lay ing out dif fer ent re sources that en gage stu dents are all
ex er cises very diff ere nt from eng agi ng in hist ori cal res earch and pre-
sent ing it in art i cle or book form. They are also, sad to say, less re warded
kinds of con tri bu tions in many ac a demic in sti tu tions. We are grate ful
to all the schol ars and teach ers who took time from their busy sched ules
to craft these es says. That our con trib u tors con tinue to ex press their
be lief in the im por tance of this pro ject means more to us than they can
know.
We would also like to thank the se ries ed i tors, John Tully, Mat thew
Masur, and Brad Aus tin, all for mer col leagues in the De part ment of
His tory at Ohio State Uni ver sity. Their com mit ment to this book, only
the sec ond in the Har vey Gold berg se ries, gives us con fi dence that
those of us who are les bian, gay, bi sex ual, or trans gen der are not the
only ones who care about this his tory. We are also grate ful to the terr ific
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