Exploring History through Young Adult Literature

Paula Greathouse, Ph.D., is a clinical assistant professor at the University of West Florida where she works in the doctoral program. She was a secondary English and Reading teacher for sixteen years. Andrew L. Hostetler, Ph.D., is an associate professor of the practice of social studies education at Vanderbilt University. His teaching and scholarship focuses on social studies methods, literacy in social studies, human geography, and teaching difficult discourses for community engagement and social change. He was a secondary social studies teacher for nine years. Melanie Hundley, Ph. D., is a professor of the practice of English education at Vanderbilt University. Her teaching and scholarship focuses on digital and multimodal composition, teacher preparation, and young adult literature. She teaches writing methods courses and young adult literature.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Teaching about the Progressive Era through the Story of Clara Lemlich: AudacityEmma Thacker, Rebecca Mueller, and Lauren Colley Chapter 2: Black Birds in the Sky: Teaching the Tulsa Race Massacre Through Peritextual AnalysisShelbie Witte, Melissa Gross, Don Latham, and Shanedra Nowell Chapter 3: Refugees, Displacement, and the Object-Idea Connection: Teaching WWII and the Holocaust through Refugee Jeremy Hilburn and Denise Ousley-ExumChapter 4: The Nightingale: Discovering Who We Are and Who We Want to BeAmber Spears and Luke Anderson Chapter 5: We Are Not Free: Contextualizing, Modeling, and Extending Emily S. Pendergrass and George L. BoggsChapter 6: Exploring Asian American History through Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and SweetLin Wu and Kenneth Carano Chapter 7: Addressing the Intersections of Racial and Sexual Identities in Last Night at the Telegraph ClubJ.B. Mayo and Scott Sundstrom Chapter 8: Coming Out in the Classroom: Using Pitman’s The Stonewall Riots to Forefront LGBTQ+ and Civil Rights in U.S. HistoryMatthew Kruger-Ross, Laura Renzi, and Pauline SchmidtChapter 9: The War Abroad and The War at Home: Examining the Vietnam War using Crowe’s Death Coming Up the HillMelanie Hundley, Sarah Burriss, Jalexia Andrews and Savannah NoceraChapter 10: Breaking Silences: An Historical Inquiry Design Approach to Reading The Fountains of SilenceElizabeth A. Shaver, Jason D. DeHart, Rachelle S. SavitzChapter 11: An Inquiry into the History of Reproductive Rights: Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive RightsAnnie McMahon Whitlock and Kristy A. Brugar About the EditorsAbout the EditorsAbout the AuthorsIndex