Recent Scholarship
Education
Anderson, Marvin J., “The Architectural Education of Nineteenth-Century American Engineers: Dennis Hart Mahan at West Point,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (June 2008), 222–47.
Beadie, Nancy, “Toward a History of Education Markets in the United States: An Introduction,” Social Science History, 32 (Spring 2008), 47–73.
Beadie, Nancy, “Tuition Funding for Common Schools: Education Markets and Market Regulation in Rural New York, 1815–1850,” Social Science History, 32 (Spring 2008), 107–33.
Dorn, Charles, “‘Treason in the Textbooks’: Reinterpreting the Harold Rugg Textbook Controversy in the Context of Wartime Schooling,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 44 (Aug. 2008), 457–79.
Douglas, Bill R., “Penn in Technicolor: Cecil Hinshaw’s Radical Pacifist-Perfectionist Experiment at William Penn College, 1944–1949,” Quaker History, 96 (Fall 2007), 54–68.
Embry, Jessie, “Diploma Nursing at Salt Lake City Religious Based Hospitals,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 76 (Summer 2008), 281–99.
Frank, Marie, “The Theory of Pure Design and American Architectural Education in the Early Twentieth Century,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (June 2008), 248–73. Heavily illustrated.
Gyure, Dale Allen, “The Heart of the University: A History of the Library as an Architectural Symbol of American Higher Education,” Winterthur Portfolio, 42 (Summer–Autumn 2008), 107–32.
Hampel, Robert, “Testing Medical Students at Harvard, 1870–1930,” History of Education and Children’s Literature (Macerata), 3 (no. 1, 2008), 155–74.
Huber, Patrick, and Stephen Foster, “Making Boys into Miners: The Freshman Fight and Hazing at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, 1903–1945,” Missouri Historical Review, 102 (July 2008), 195–213.
Matzko, James, “‘This Is It, Isn’t It, Brother Stone?’: The Move of Bob Jones University from Cleveland, Tennessee, to Greenville, 1946–1947,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 108 (July 2007), 235–56.
McCorkle, Gerald S., “Busing Comes to Dallas Schools,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 111 (Jan. 2008), 305–33.
Neuman, Lisa Kay, “Indian Play: Students, Wordplay, and Ideologies of Indianness at a School for Native Americans,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Spring 2008), 178–203.
Parkinson, Brian, “A Creole in Cairo: Judge Pierre Crabitès Thoughts on the Middle East,” Louisiana History, 49 (Summer 2008), 315–34.
Piggot, W. Benjamin, “Radicalism in the Cradle of the New Right: The University of California’s Irvine Campus in 1960s Orange County,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Spring 2008), 55–85.
Sautter, John A., “Equity and History: Vermont’s Education Revolution in the Early 1890s,” Vermont History, 76 (Winter–Spring 2008), 1–18.
Spearman, Mindy, “‘Everything to Help, Nothing to Hinder’: The Story of the Texas School Journal,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 111 (Jan. 2008), 283–302.
Swartz, David, “Social Closure in American Elite Higher Education,” Theory and Society (Dordrecht), 37 (August 2008), 409–19.
Tolley, Kimberley, “Music Teachers in the North Carolina Education Market, 1800–1840: How Mrs. Sambourne Earned a ‘Comfortable Living for Herself and Her Children,’” Social Science History, 32 (Spring 2008), 75–106.
Beverly, Monifa Green, “Black Generational Dialogue(s): Unpacking Tensions and Learning the Commonalities of Education Values in One Rural Community” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289078.
Bowker, Kathie Marie, “The Boarding School Legacy: Ten Contemporary Lakota Women Tell Their Stories” (Montana State University, 2007). Order No. DA3284077.
Davis, Lowell Kent, “A Story Untold: How Five African American Women Used State Aid Acts to Attain Advanced Degrees, 1940–1959” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3290752.
Edghill, Vernese E., “Historical Patterns of Institutional Diversity: Black Women in Race-Specific Positions on Predominantly White College Campuses” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3283238.
Hammond, Thomas Chalmers, “Media, Scaffolds, Canvases: A Quantitative and Qualitative Investigation of Student Content Knowledge Outcomes in Technology-Mediated Seventh-Grade History Instruction” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3288057.
Hicklin, Alisa Kay, “Increasing Minority Enrollments in Higher Education: Political Institutions, Public Universities, and Policy Outcomes” (Texas A&M University, 2006). Order No. DA3280539.
Lauzon, Glenn P., “Civic Learning through Agricultural Improvement: Bringing ‘the Loom and the Anvil into Proximity with the Plow’ in Nineteenth-Century Indiana” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3290769.
de Leon Mendiola, Annalisa, “Traditionalists versus Multiculturalists: Discourses from the 2003 U.S. History Textbook Adoption in Texas” (University of Texas, San Antonio, 2007). Order No. DA3289291.
Lord, Kathleen M., “Fourth Graders’ Comprehension of History Themes” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3290520.
McCoy Grissom, Shelly A., “An Examination of a Woman’s Life Work: Laura Smith Haviland and the Founding of the Raisin Institute” (Capella University, 2007). Order No. DA3284067.
Moran, Patricia, “‘Hide It under a Bush, Hell No!’: Women’s Volunteer Associations as Adult Education Initiatives” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3292602.
Noraian, Monica Cousins, “Sarah Raymond Fitzwilliam: The Nation’s First Female School Superintendent (1874–1892); A Biography of One Woman Learning to Dare and Daring to Lead” (Illinois State University, 2007). Order No. DA3280907.
Shaik Ali-Williams, Suraiya B., “Shaping the Quality of Public Education Teachers in the United States of America: 1830s–1950s” (Capella University, 2008). Order No. DA3289492.
Turk-Bicakci, Lori A., “The Development of Social Movement Programs and Departments in Higher Education: Women’s and Ethnic Studies from 1975 to 2000” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3281696.
Heskel, Julia, and Davis Dyer, After the Harkness Gift: A History of Phillips Exeter Academy since 1930. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2008. xiv, 312 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-9769787-1-8.)
Kaestle, Carl F., and Alyssa E. Lodewick, eds., To Educate a Nation: Federal and National Strategies of School Reform. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xvi, 320 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1542-1. xvi, 320 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1543-8.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich, Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, and David Lindsay Roberts, Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xviii, 418 pp. $70.00, isbn 978-0-8018-8814-4.)
Lyons, John F., Teachers and Reform: Chicago Public Education, 1929–1970. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xvi, 287 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-252-03272-1.)
Mathison, Sandra, and E. Wayne Ross, eds., The Nature and Limits of Standards-Based Reform and Assessment: Defending Public Schools. (New York: Teachers College Press, 2008. xxvi, 194 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-0-8077-4901-2.)
Strong, Susan Rumsey, Thought Knows No Sex: Women´s Rights at Alfred University. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xii, 217 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7513-3. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-7914-7514-0.)
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