Dedications
Section 1: Introduction to Teaching Difficult History and Film as Difficult History
Chapter 1: Using Film to Teach Difficult Histories
Jeremy Stoddard, Alan S. Marcus, and David Hicks
Chapter 2: Difficult History Means Difficult Questions: Using Film to Reveal the Perspective of ‘The Other’ in Difficult History Topics
Ben Walsh, David Hicks, and Stephanie van Hover
Section 2: Human Rights, Trauma, and Contemporary Difficult Histories
Chapter 3: Teaching the History and Contemporary Challenge of Human Rights through Film
Glenn Mitoma
Chapter 4: From Seeing to Learn to Learning to See: Films on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Brian Britt
Chapter 5: The Torturers Among Us: History, the Film Industry, and its Claims to Truth
Robert P. Stephens
Section 3: Difficult History, Identity, and Implementation in Curriculum
Chapter 6: Institutional Roles in Using Film to Teach Difficult History: The Federal Agency for Civic Education and The Lives of Others
Mattias Frey
Chapter 7: "I saw a REAL Indian on TV last night!": Engaging Students in Historical Thinking for Social Justice
Christine Rogers Stanton, Amanda LeClair-Diaz, Brad Hall, and Lucia Ricciardelli
Chapter 8: What Does History Have to Do With This?: Youth Filmmaking for Social Change
Sandra Quiñones, Brian Bailey, Joseph Ehman, and Daniel Delehanty
Section 4: Teaching Common but Difficult Histories through Film
Chapter 9: Hollywood Histories: Examining Contemporary Depictions of Race and American Slavery in Popular Film
Keffrelyn D. Brown and Anthony L. Brown
Chapter 10: Classroom as Memory Workspace: The Educational and Empathetic Potentials of Twelve Years a Slave and Ask a Slave
Matthew R. Cook and Derek H. Alderman
Chapter 11: Teaching Difficult History with Film: Multiple Perspectives on the Holocaust
Alan S. Marcus and Gary Mills
Section 5: Difficult Histories from the Margins in Curriculum and Teacher Education
Chapter 12: Questioning "Normal": Actively Undoing Dis/ability Stereotypes Through Teaching a Critical Analysis of Films.
David J. Connor
Chapter 13: Invoking Precious Knowledge with Teacher Candidates to Reclaim the Past, Reassess the Present, and Revolutionize Future Practice
Mark Kohan and Emilie M. Camp
Chapter 14: Finally "Seeing" a Queer Past: The Importance of Film in Teaching LGBTQ American History
Sharon Ullman
