Understanding and Teaching Contemporary US History since Reagan.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Teaching Contemporary History since Reagan Amy L. Sayward and Kimber M. Quinney -- Part One: Within the Borders of the United States -- "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 Cerretii -- Studying Recent US Supreme Court Nominations: Examining Public Debate and Citizen Participation | 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 R. Polk -- A Nation at Risk? Education Debates and Policies from Reagan to Trump | Carl P. Watts -- Part Two: Beyond the Borders of the United States -- Undermining the Sandbags: How Neoliberalism Encouraged Undocumented Migration from the 1980s to the Early 2020s | Benjamin C. Montoyta -- 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 M. 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 by 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 Weckesser English -- Contributors -- Index.

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