History of Education

Founded by Alfred C. Kinsey in 1947, the Kinsey Institute has been a leading organization in developing an understanding of human sexuality. In thi...

In A Is for Arson, Campbell F. Scribner sifts through two centuries of debris to uncover the conditions that have prompted school vandalism and to ...

When modern primary schools were first founded in Japan and Egypt in the 1870s, they did not teach art. Yet by the middle of the twentieth century,...

In rich detail Jonathan Berkey interprets the social and cultural consequences of Islam's regard for knowledge, showing how education in the Middle...

Since the 1980s, successive Canadian institutions and federal governments as well as Christian churches have attempted to grapple with the malignan...

Elstree School celebrates its 175th anniversary in 2023 and to commemorate the anniversary new book Elstree 175 tells iconic story of the school fr...

At 3:17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created a...

The Enterprisers traces the emergence of the "modern" school in Russia during the reigns of Peter I and his immediate successors, up to the accessi...

More than fifty years after the civil rights movement, there are still glaring racial inequities all across the United States. In Rich Thanks to Ra...

Creating the Suburban School Advantage explains how American suburban school districts gained a competitive edge over their urban counterparts. Joh...

There are few subjects these days that cause parents more stress than the education of their children.In his new book, Peter Hitchens describes the...

Edition and translation of important documents, providing an account of the foundation of a Cambridge college. Gonville & Caius College is exc...

The British public school is an iconic institution, a training ground for the ruling elite and a symbol of national identity and tradition. But bey...