Teaching the New Deal, 1932-1941

Jenice View, Andrea Guiden Pittman, James Mitchell, Charlotte L. Johnson, Erik Alexander, Caroline R. Pryor, Michael E. Karpyn, Jenice View

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781433184413
• eBook ISBN: 9781433184420
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This volume provides pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, social studies methods teachers, and college level social studies content faculty a variety of resources for teaching and learning about the New Deal Era. Written with teachers in mind, each chapter introduces content that both addresses and disrupts master narratives concerning the historical significance of the New Deal era, while offering a creative pedagogical approach to reconciling instructional challenges. The book offers teachers a variety of ways to engage middle and high school students in economic and political arguments about American capitalism and the role of the federal government in defining and sustaining capitalism, as sparked by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal policies. Among the significant actors in the chapters are women, Indigenous/Native, African-descended, Latinx, Asian Pacific Island, and LGBTQ+ people. The New Deal generation included farmers, sharecroppers, industrial workers, and homemakers who were more willing than ever to question the capitalists and politicians in official leadership, and also willing to demand an economy and government that served the working and middle classes, as well as the wealthy. Roosevelt's New Deal offered such a promise. For some, he was considered a class traitor who went too far. To others, he was considered a coward who did not go far enough. The legacies of the New Deal inform much of the public debate of the early 21st century and are, therefore, relevant for classroom examination.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Information
• Copyright Information
• Table of Contents
• Preface: An Overview: Teaching the New Deal, 1932–1941 (Andrea Guiden Pittman and Jenice L. View )
• Chapter One Stepping into the New Deal: A Meet and Greet (Jenice L. View)
• Chapter Two Teaching the Indian New Deal (John R. Gram)
• Chapter Three Centering the Black Experience in Teaching the New Deal (Daniella Ann Cook, Jeffrey C. Eargle)
• Chapter Four Years of Desperation, Years of Hope: The New Deal on the Border (Yolanda Chávez Leyva)
• Chapter Five LGBTQIA+ Figures and the New Deal (Andrea Guiden Pittman)
• Chapter Six When Change Confronts Continuity: The Roosevelts’ Battles Over Civil Rights (John H. Bickford)
• Chapter Seven President Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Revered President or Overt Racist? (Angela Y. Wang)
• Chapter Eight The Federally Funded American Dream: Public Housing and the New Deal (Elizabeth Milnarik, Jenice L. View)
• Chapter Nine Hollywood or History? The Grapes of Wrath (1940) (Scott L. Roberts, Charles Elfer)
• Chapter Ten The New New Deal: Teaching a People’s History of the New Deal (Adam Sanchez)
• Chapter Eleven Beyond the New Deal: Historiography and Pedagogy in the Classroom (Matthew Campbell)
• Chapter Twelve Resources and Lesson Plans (Whitney G. Blankenship, Caroline R. Pryor, Amy Wilkinson)
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Contributors
• Index
• Series index