About this Book

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.