Teaching LGBTQ+ History in High Schools: Practical Strategies and Voices of Experience

This book offers insights, strategies, and lesson plans for teaching LGBTQ+ history. With essays from educators, historians, activists, policy makers, and youth advocates, it speaks to the power and significance of LGBTQ+-inclusive curriculum and its necessity at a time when the LGBTQ+ community is more visible and increasingly targeted.

Stacie Brensilver Berman is Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University, USA and was previously a public school teacher for 10 years. She is the author of LGBTQ+ History in High School Classrooms in the United States since 1990 and Project Based Learning in Real World US History Classrooms: Engaging Diverse Learners (with Diana B. Turk).

Robert Cohen is Professor of History and Social Studies at New York University, USA, whose most recent books are Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century, and Rethinking America’s Past: Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond (co-authored by Sonia E. Murrow).