Contents -- Preface -- 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 -- Part One: 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 the 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 -- Part Two: 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 / Dása Francíková -- 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.

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 -- Part Three: 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 D. Jacquet -- Contributors -- Index.