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
pt. 1. 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 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
pt. 2. 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 / Dáša Frančíková
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
pt. 3. 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 O. Jacquet.