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African American history
american history
american studies
Author_Christine A. Ogren
Barbara Beatty
Black colleges
Black history
Black teachers
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europe
gender
gender studies
history
history of teaching
institutes
Jackie M Blount
labor studies
middle class
new directions in the history of education
race hierarchies
race relations
rutgers
rutgers university
rutgers university press
school year
schoolteachers
summer
summer break
summer off
summer vacation
teacher history
teachers
teachers colleges
teaching
teaching history
tourism
travel europe
u.s. education
u.s. education history
u.s. history
united states
universities
us education
us education history
us history
vacation
women's history
womens studies
workforce
Product details
- ISBN 9781978831742
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Since the nine-month school year became common in the United States during the 1880s, schoolteachers have never really had summers off. Administrators instructed them to rest, as well as to study and travel, in the interest of creating a compliant workforce. Teachers, however, adapted administrators’ directives to pursue their own version of professionalization and to ensure their financial well-being. Summers Off explores teachers’ summer experiences between the 1880s and 1930s in institutes and association meetings; sessions at teachers colleges, Black colleges, and prestigious universities; work for wages or their family; tourism in the U.S. and Europe; and activities intended to be restful. This heretofore untold history reveals how teachers utilized the geographical and psychological distance from the classroom that summer provided, to enhance not only their teaching skills but also their professional and intellectual independence, their membership in the middle class, and, in the cases of women and Black teachers, their defiance of gender and race hierarchies.
Christine A. Ogren is a professor at the University of Iowa. She is the author of The American State Normal School: "An Instrument of Great Good" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and the coeditor of Rethinking Campus Life: New Perspectives on the History of College Students in the United States (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
