Recent Scholarship
Education
Becker, Anja, “Southern Academic Ambitions Meet German Scholarship: The Leipzig Networks of Vanderbilt University’s James H. Kirkland in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (Nov. 2008), 855–86.
Benowitz, June Melby, “Reading, Writing, and Radicalism: Right-Wing Women and Education in the Post-war Years,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Feb. 2009), 89–111.
Berg, Richard E., “The Flandreau Indian School, 1892–2005: An Educational and Architectural Overview,” South Dakota History, 38 (Winter 2008), 283–311.
Berman, Elizabeth Popp, “Why Did Universities Start Patenting? Institution-Building and the Road to the Bayh-Dole Act,” Social Studies of Science, 38 (Dec. 2008), 835–71.
Carl, Jim, “‘Good Politics Is Good Government’: The Troubling History of Mayoral Control of the Public Schools in Twentieth-Century Chicago,” American Journal of Education, 115 (Feb. 2009), 305–36.
Craine, David M., “Image Enhancement: Three Chicago Institutions and the National Catholic Interscholastic Basketball Tournament, 1924–1941,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Autumn 2008), 205–20.
Dibbell, Jeremy B., “‘A Library of the Most Celebrated & Approved Authors’: The First Purchase Collection of Union College,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43 (no. 4, 2008), 367–96.
Edirisooriya, Gunapala, “A Market Analysis of the Latter Half of the Nineteenth-Century American Higher Education Sector,” History of Education (London), 38 (Jan. 2009), 115–32.
de Forest, Jennifer, “Tilting at Windmills? Judge Justine Wise Polier and a History of Justice and Education in New York City,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Feb. 2009), 68–88.
Frederick, Carl B., and Robert M. Hauser, “Have We Put an End to Social Promotion? Changes in School Progress among Children Aged 6 to 17 from 1972 to 2005,” Demography, 45 (Aug. 2008), 719–40.
Furstenberg, Barbara, “Defining the Role of College Professor: John Mason Young and the Early Years of the College of Hawaii,” Hawaiian Journal of History, 42 (2008), 231–63.
Hagen, Joel B., “Teaching Ecology during the Environmental Age, 1965–1980,” Environmental History, 13 (Oct. 2008), 704–23.
Malone, Barry F., “Before Brown: Cultural and Social Capital in a Rural Black School Community, W. E. B. Du Bois High School, Wake Forest, North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review, 85 (Oct. 2008), 416–47.
Mokher, Christine G., and Michael K. McLendon, “Uniting Secondary and Postsecondary Education: An Event History Analysis of State Adoption of Dual Enrollment Policies,” American Journal of Education, 115 (Feb. 2009), 249–77.
Neeley, James D., “A Library for Engineering Education: Frank O. Marvin and the University of Kansas, 1875–1915,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43 (no. 4, 2008), 411–39.
Ogata, Amy F., “Building for Learning in Postwar American Elementary Schools,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 67 (Dec. 2008), 562–91.
Schmitt, Natalie Crohn, “Creating Community: Experiments in Drama at Francis W. Parker School, Chicago,” Theatre Survey, 49 (May 2008), 37–64.
Solberg, Winton U., “A Struggle for Control and a Moral Scandal: President Edmund J. James and the Powers of the President at the University of Illinois, 1911–14,” History of Education Quarterly, 49 (Feb. 2009), 39–ed.
Wraga, William G., “Latin Literacy Redux: The Classical Investigation in the United States, 1921–1924,” History of Education (London), 38 (Jan. 2009), 79–98.
Alvarez, René Luis, “Minority Education in the Urban Midwest: Culture, Identity, and Mexican Americans in Chicago, 1910–1977” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3309390.
Atherton, Donna, “Perceptions of School Board Members and a Superintendent on Superintendent Long-Tenure” (Lewis & Clark College, 2008). Order No. DA3304159.
Bachoo, Richard R., “Gubernatorial Decision-Making: A Case Study of Gubernatorial Influence on the Contemporary Development of Connecticut Public Higher Education from 1980–2001” (University of Connecticut, 2008). Order No. DA3313264.
Callaway, Patricia Birch, “‘Don’t You Fall’ Resilient and Academically Successful African Americans’ Literacy and Family Involvement Practices” (University of Kentucky, 2008). Order No. DA3315005.
Calvert, Scout Amanda Rainbow, “Technobibliocapital: Knowledge, Practice, and Play in Library Worlds” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3317368.
Clapper, Michael, “The Constructed World of Postwar Philadelphia Area Schools: Site Selection, Architecture, and the Landscape of Inequality” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3309412.
Cohen, Michael David, “Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312323.
Collins, Lisa Phelps, “Venturing Out: Students at Eastern Kentucky State Normal School, 1910–1924” (University of Kentucky, 2008). Order No. DA3311932.
Cortés, Ángel de Jesús, “Student Idealists and the Specter of Natural Science, 1870–1910” (University of Notre Dame, 2008). Order No. DA3309164.
Crawford, Jerry, II, “Twenty-Five Years of Accreditation in Journalism and Mass Communication at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 1982–2007” (Howard University, 2008). Order No. DA3304158.
Gelber, Scott M., “Academic Populism: The People’s Revolt and Public Higher Education, 1880–1905” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312366.
Gillespie, Deanna M., “‘They Walk, Talk, and Act like New People’: Black Women and the Citizenship Education Program, 1957–1970” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2008). Order No. DA3307992.
Hinshaw, Gregory P., “‘The Best Rural Schools in the Country’: Lee L. Driver and the Consolidated Schools of Randolph County, Indiana, 1907–1920” (Ball State University, 2008). Order No. DA3303355.
Karppi, Daniel G., “Render unto Caeser, Render unto God: Texas Denominational Colleges and Universities and the Politics of the Civil War Era” (Baylor University, 2008). Order No. DA3310773.
Kirschner, Donna Harel, “Producing Unschoolers: Learning through Living in a U.S. Education Movement” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3309459.
LaSusa, Michael, “The Rise and Demise and Resurrection of the New Jersey School District: Localism versus Systematization, 1664–1900” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3305132.
Radle, Carol Ann, “Vassar College and the 1944 Servicemen’s Readjustment Act: The Impact of the G.I. Bill on Women College Students” (Marywood University, 2008). Order No. DA3312634.
Ramsey, Paul J., “A Polyglot Boardinghouse: A History of Public Bilingual Schooling in the United States, 1840–1920” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3307564.
Rivera, Angelica, “Re-inserting Mexican-American Women’s Voices into 1950s Chicago Educational History” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3314873.
Wearne, Eric, “From ‘Fear-Based Choice’ to ‘Freedom-Based Choice’: A Case Study of Georgia’s Tuition Grants Act, 1960–1997” (Emory University, 2008). Order No. DA3310300.
Dupre, Anne Proffitt, Speaking Up: The Unintended Costs of Free Speech in Public Schools. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. xii, 289 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-674-03114-2.)
Greenwald, Brian H., and John Vickrey Van Cleve, eds., A Fair Chance in the Race of Life: The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History. (Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 2008. xii, 198 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-1-56368-395-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Herbst, Jurgen, Women Pioneers of Public Education: How Culture Came to the Wild West. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xii, 217 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-230-60835-1.)
Pohlmann, Marcus D., Opportunity Lost: Race and Poverty in the Memphis City Schools. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xiv, 282 pp. $42.00, isbn 978-1-57233-638-4.)
Vinovskis, Maris A., From a Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind. (New York: Teachers College Press, 2009. xiv, 297 pp. Paper, $45.95, isbn 978-0-8077-4922-7.)
Wolters, Raymond, Race and Education, 1954–2007. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xiv, 313 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1828-5.)
Hartley, James E., ed., Mary Lyon: Documents and Writings. (South Hadley: Doorlight, 2008. xx, 398 pp. Cloth, $36.00, isbn 978-0-9778372-6-7. Paper, $18.00, isbn 978-0-9778372-5-0.)
Pieschel, Bridget Smith, ed., Golden Days: Reminiscences of Alumnae, Mississippi State College for Women. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. xxiv, 411 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-60473-097-5.)
Robinson, Mildred Wigfall, and Richard J. Bonnie, eds., Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009. xiv, 249 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8265-169-0.)
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