📚 Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School (A book talk by Don Romesburg)

📅 Friday, October 10

🕕 4:30–6:30 PM

📍 Hybrid: Concourse 201/202 or Virtual

 

On Friday, October 10, 4:30-6:00pm, please join the American Social History Project (ASHP) to celebrate the publication of Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School (Temple University Press, 2025). Author Don Romesburg will discuss his account of the history of LGBTQ-inclusive k-12 history education in the United States, highlighting the battle to pass California’s 2011 FAIR Education Act, the first statewide mandate related to the inclusion of LGBTQ+ history and a model for other states. As part of a moderated conversation with Anne Valk, Executive Director of the ASHP and Professor of History at the Graduate Center, Romesburg will talk about his role in the movement to pass and then implement the FAIR Act, what lessons schools and educators can learn from struggles for LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum, and the importance of LGBTQ+ history education in our current political environment.

Cosponsored by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies.

About the Author:

Dr. Don Romesburg is the author of Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School (Rutgers UP, 2025) and editor of the Routledge History of Queer America (2018). As the lead scholar working with advocates to pass the FAIR Education Act, he helped usher LGBTQ content into California’s 2016 K-12 History-Social Science Framework and subsequent textbooks. He now trains educators on implementation. For these efforts, he is the namesake of the LGBTQ+ History Association’s Don Romesburg Prize for K-12 Curriculum. Romesburg is also a co-founder of the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco and Managing Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, which is housed at Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford. He is a visiting professor in History and Women’s, Gender, and Queer Studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Opispo.

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