Rethinking the history of American education / edited by William J. Reese and John L. Rury.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Reese, William J., 1951-
Rury, John L., 1951-
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:xii, 292 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: an evolving and expanding field of study / William J. Reese and John L. Rury
  • Literacy, common schools, and high schools in colonial and antebellum America / Gerald F. Moran and Maris A. Vinovskis
  • All educational politics is local: new perspectives on black schooling in the post-bellum South / Jacqueline Jones
  • "As is the teacher, so is the school": future directions in the historiography of African American teachers / Michael Fultz
  • American public schooling and European immigrants in the early twentieth century: a post-revisionist synthesis / Michael R. Olneck
  • The historiography of women's education in the United States / Margaret A. Nash
  • Children in American history / N. Ray Hiner
  • Sites, students, scholarship, and structures: the historiography of American higher education in the post-revisionist era / Christine A. Ogren
  • Curriculum history and its revisionist legacy / Barry M. Franklin
  • Bridging the gap between urban, suburban, and educational history / Jack Dougherty
  • The federal role in American education: a historiographical essay / Adam R. Nelson
  • Epilogue: new directions in the history of education / William J. Reese and John L. Rury.