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Chung, Kyung Hee, “Yoksakyoyukeul Dooleossan Hangukgwa Migukeui Yinyumnonjaeng Bigyo” (The ideological controversy over the teaching of national history in Korea and America), Migukhaknongip, 40 (Dec. 2008), 159–94. In Korean.

Damgaard, Marshall, “Closing Time: A Twenty-Five-Year Retrospective on the Life and Death of the University of South Dakota at Springfield,” South Dakota History, 39 (Fall 2009), 189–267.

DeBenedetti, Charles L., “Educators and Armaments in Cold War America,” Peace & Change, 34 (Oct. 2009), 425–40.

Diogo, Maria Paula, “The Normativities of Engineers: Engineering Education and History of Technology,” Technology and Culture, 50 (Oct. 2009), 737–52.

Elfenbein, Jessica I., “Bringing to Life Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth—A How-to Guide,” Public Historian, 31 (Nov. 2009), 13–27.

Ingrassia, Brian M., “To ‘Rekindle Embers of Remembrance’: Eureka’s Recruiting Elm in Local Memory and Global Perspective,” Journal of Illinois History, 12 (Summer 2009), 82–106.

Jones, Stacey, “Dynamic Social Norms and the Unexpected Transformation of Women’s Higher Education, 1965–1975,” Social Science History, 33 (Fall 2009), 248–91.

Kamens, David H., “The Expanding Polity: Theorizing the Links between Expanded Higher Education and the New Politics of the Post-1970s,” American Journal of Education, 116 (Nov. 2009), 99–124.

Kugelmann, Robert, “Out of the Ghetto: Integrating Catholics into Mainstream Psychology in the United States after World War II,” History of Psychology, 12 (Aug. 2009), 201–26.

McCullagh, James G., “Eliza Jane Ross: A Pioneer Cherokee Educator,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Summer 2009), 224–43.

Michna, Catherine, “Stories at the Center: Story Circles, Educational Organizing, and Fate of Neighborhood Public Schools in New Orleans,” American Quarterly, 61 (Sept. 2009), 529–56.

Oakley, Deirdre, Jacob Stowell, and John R. Logan, “The Impact of Desegregation on Black Teachers in the Metropolis, 1970–2000,” Ethnic and Racial Studies (London), 32 (Nov. 2009), 1576–98.

Pampel, Fred C., “The Persistence of Educational Disparities in Smoking,” Social Problems, 56 (Aug. 2009), 526–42.

Plant, Nancy K., “She Taught Him to ‘Hear With His Eyes,’” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 93 (Autumn 2009), 36–47. Heavily illustrated.

Ryan, Ann Marie, “Leaving No ‘Unbridged Chasm’: The Office of the High School Visitor at the University of Illinois, 1896–1948,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Summer 2009), 126–62.

Strauss, Emily E., “Unequal Pieces of a Shrinking Pie: The Struggle between African Americans and Latinos over Education, Employment, and Empowerment in Compton, California,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Nov. 2009), 507–29.

Thomas, Kevin J. A., “Parental Characteristics and the Schooling Progress of the Children of Immigrant and U.S.-Born Blacks,” Demography, 46 (Aug. 2009), 513–34.

Urbanski, Michael T., “Polite Avoidance: The Story behind the Closing of Alliance College,” Polish American Studies, 66 (Spring 2009), 25–42.

Wisnioski, Matthew, “‘Liberal Education Has Failed’: Reading Like an Engineer in 1960s America,” Technology and Culture, 50 (Oct. 2009), 753–82.

 

Baeta, Roberta Whitlock, “The Little Skingin That Could: An Autobiographical, Affirmative Look at Native American Off-Reservation Boarding Schools between 1970 and 1980” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3341774.

Boughton, Heather Rosemary, “Making the Choice: African-Americans and Decisions about Enrollment at Chartered and Non-chartered Public Schools” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3335867.

Cee, Vincent J., “Christopher Small and Music Education, 1977–2007” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2008). Order No. DA3336978.

Chaszar, Julianna K., “The Reinvention of Honors Programs in American Higher Education, 1955–1965” (Pennsylvania State University, 2008). Order No. DA3336005.

Delmont, Matthew F., “‘American Bandstand’ and School Segregation in Postwar Philadelphia” (Brown University, 2008). Order No. DA3335645.

Esparza, Jesse J., “Schools of Their Own: The San Felipe Independent School District and Mexican American Educational Autonomy, Del Rio, Texas, 1928–1972” (University of Houston, 2008). Order No. DA3346396.

García, Teresa A., “Mexican Room: Public Schooling and the Children of Mexican Railroad Workers in Fort Madison, Iowa, 1923–1930” (University of Iowa, 2008). Order No. DA3340248.

Gbaba, Joseph Tomoonh-Garlodeyh, Sr, “The Chiandeh Afrocentric Curriculum and Textbook Experience: Exploring Children’s Responses to an Afrocentric Curriculum” (Saint Joseph’s University, 2008). Order No. DA3338427.

Grate, Lanette Lawrence, “Jane Addams and the Foundationalist Fallacy: Coming to Voice at Rockford Female Seminary” (Western Michigan University, 2008). Order No. DA3340185.

Ho, Melanie, “Useful Fiction: Why Universities Need Middlebrow Literature” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3335940.

Joyner, Marieta Davis, “Education of Deaf African Americans in Washington, D.C. and Raleigh, N.C. during the 19th and 20th Centuries, through the Eyes of Two Heroes and a Shero” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2008). Order No. DA3340515.

Kehle, Jo Layne, “The Leadership of Ross O. Swimmer, 1975–1985: A Case Study of Modern Cherokee Principal Chief” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3341624.

LaFever, Kathryn S., “Interdisciplinary Teacher Education: Reform in the Global Age” (Miami University, 2008). Order No. DA3338376.

Mackie, Steven Wade, “Travel as Education for Ecophilia: A Rural Teacher Educator’s Thought Experiment” (University of Oklahoma, 2008). Order No. DA3337126.

Matthews, Eric Paul, “The Education of Early Nineteenth Century American Physicians: With Relevance to the Intercession Attempts on the Smallpox Virus, with Focus on the Smallpox Epidemic of 1837—1838” (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2008). Order No. DA3337329.

Morrison, Brian Courtney, “Selected African American Educational Efforts in Baltimore, Maryland during the Nineteenth Century” (Morgan State University, 2008). Order No. DA3336912.

Parman, John, “The Private and Public Effects of School Reform: Educational Investment, Human Capital Spillovers, and Intergenerational Mobility during the Expansion of Public Schools in the United States” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3331145.

Powell, Esther Singleton, “Simon Green Atkins and the Development of Higher Education Opportunities for African Americans in the North Carolina Piedmont” (Northcentral University, 2008). Order No. DA3338737.

Scandiffio, Theresa, “‘Better’n Any Circus That Ever Come to Town’: Cinema, Visual Culture, and Educational Programming at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, 1921–1935” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3338508.

Smith, Christine, “The Person Next to You on the Bus Probably Has a Graduate Degree Too: A Study of the Expansion of Graduate Education” (State University of New York, Albany, 2008). Order No. DA3336624.

 

Edwards, John Carver, Orville’s Aviators: Outstanding Alumni of the Wright Flying School, 1910–1916. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. vi, 189 pp. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4227-0.)

Kennedy, Thomas C., A History of Southland College: The Society of Friends and Black Education in Arkansas. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009. xii, 349 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-55728-916-2.)

Lambert, Frank, The Battle of Ole Miss: Civil Rights v. States’ Rights. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. ix, 193 pp. $22.95, isbn 978-0-19-538042-2.)

Meyers, Debra, and Burke Miller, eds., Inequity in Education: A Historical Perspective. (Lanham: Lexington, 2009. vi, 276 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-7391-3397-2.)

Oriard, Michael, Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the bcs Era. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiv, 334 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3329-2.)

Pulido, Alberto López, Barbara Driscoll de Alvarado, and Carmen Samora, eds., Moving beyond Borders: Julian Samora and the Establishment of Latino Studies. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxii, 268 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03463-3. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-07656-5.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Reed, Merl E., Educating the Urban New South: Atlanta and the Rise of Georgia State University, 1913–1969. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009. xiv, 321 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-88146-148-0.)

Walker, Vanessa Siddle, with Ulysses Byas, Hello Professor: A Black Principal and Professional Leadership in the Segregated South. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvi, 293 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8078-3289-9.)

For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.

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