History of Education

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of two of the most influential books in modern educational and social theory, Rethinking Freire and Illich introdu...

Harvard has often been referred to as godless Harvard. This is far from the truth. Fact is that Harvard is and always has been concerned about reli...

Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, b...

The Shifting Landscape of the American School District offers a new perspective on the American school district. The educational system of the Unit...

The Shifting Landscape of the American School District offers a new perspective on the American school district. The educational system of the Unit...

Can the U.S. keep its dominant economic position in the world economy with only 30% of its population holding bachelors degrees? If the majority of...

Can the U.S. keep its dominant economic position in the world economy with only 30% of its population holding bachelors degrees? If the majority of...

Throughout the twentieth century, local control of school districts was one of the most contentious issues in American politics. As state and feder...

In 1968-69, Columbia University became the site for a collision of American social movements. Black Power, student power, antiwar, New Left, and Ci...

Adventures in Philosophy at Notre Dame recounts the fascinating history of the University of Notre Dame's Department of Philosophy, chronicling the...

The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we kn...

An Illinois Sampler presents personal accounts from faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and other contributors about ...

An Illinois Sampler presents personal accounts from faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and other contributors about ...

When Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign as governor of New York in August 2021, a commentator on CNN remarked that he had not gotten his own memo on...

Being and Becoming Professionally Other: Identities, Voices, and Experiences of U.S. Trans* Academics is a path-clearing book that provides a rich,...

The Coup Détat of the New Orleans Public Schools explores and criticizes the contemporary educational reforms of the New Orleans public school syst...

In late summer 1940, as war spread across Europe and as the nation pulled itself out of the Great Depression, an anticommunist hysteria convulsed N...

In Sesame Street: A Transnational History, author Helle Strandgaard Jensen tells the story of how the American television show became a global bran...

If you are sitting in a South African school or university right now, you need to put aside 1948 and Bantu Education as a primary target of enquiry...

A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-making   Hi...