History of Education

Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and ear...

Following a string of military defeats at the end of the eighteenth century, Ottoman leaders realized that their classical traditions and instituti...

Since the 1960s, many historians have condemned Booker T. Washington as a problematic, even negative, influence on African American progress. This ...

Consistently ranking in the top five educational faculties in the world, the Melbourne Graduate School of Education has achieved a status few would...

This is an autobiography by a schoolmaster looking back to his birth in 1933, one week after the Kray twins, and on through the war, life at school...

When it first appeared in the 1970s, The Little Red Schoolbook was banned by the UK authorities, which confiscated copies and prosecuted the publis...

This unique literary study of Yiddish children''s periodicals casts new light on secular Yiddish schools in America in the first half of the twenti...

In their history of Cornell since 1940, Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick examine the institution in the context of the emergence of the moder...

Eugénie Luce was a French schoolteacher who fled her husband and abandoned her family, migrating to Algeria in the early 1830s. By the mid-1840s sh...