History of Education

A dynamic new look at the legendary college that was a major incubator of the arts in midcentury America In 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain ...

A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American universityHanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher ...

Tracing the development of the University of Exeter over the six decades since it was granted its royal charter in 1955, this book tells the histor...

Prudence Crandall was a schoolteacher who fought to integrate her school in Canterbury, Connecticut, and educate black women in the early nineteent...

HEADFORT SCHOOL has always been an idiosyncratic place. Beginning as an outpost of Empire at a time when that empire was locally destitute and inte...

A surge of African American enrolment and student activism brought Black Studies to many US campuses in the 1960s. Sixty years later, Black Studies...

At the end of the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German children were sent to the front lines in the largest mobilisation of underage c...

Since the early Egyptians human beings have formalised the business of learning, setting up a designated environment of some form to pass knowledge...