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Brady, Kevin M., “A University at War: The Impact of World War II on Baylor University,” Military History of the West, 36 (2006), 35–53.

Brill, Andrew, “Brown in Fayetteville: Peaceful Southern School Desegregation in 1954,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 65 (Winter 2006), 337–59.

Butchart, Ronald E., “Remapping Racial Boundaries: Teachers as Border Police and Boundary Transgressors in Post-Emancipation Black Education, usa, 1861–1876,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 43 (Feb. 2007), 61–78.

DeJong, David H., “‘Unless They Are Kept Alive’: Federal Indian Schools and Student Health, 1878–1918,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Spring 2007), 256–82.

Flanders, E. Lorene, Myron House, and Jan Ruskell, “Georgia History in Pictures,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 91 (Spring 2007), 70–82. Heavily illustrated.

Fuchs, Eckhardt, “The Creation of New International Networks in Education: The League of Nations and Educational Organizations in the 1920s,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 43 (April 2007), 199–209.

Glenna, Leland L., Margaret A. Gollnick, and Stephen S. Jones, “Eugenic Opportunity Structures: Teaching Genetic Engineering at U.S. Land-Grant Universities since 1911,” Social Studies of Science, 37 (April 2007), 281–96.

Green, Jennifer R., “Networks of Military Educators: Middle-Class Stability and Professionalization in the Late Antebellum South,” Journal of Southern History, 73 (Feb. 2007), 39–74.

Grose, Andrew, “Voices of Southern Protest during the Vietnam War Era: The University of South Carolina as a Case Study,” Peace & Change, 32 (April 2007), 153–67.

Haviland, Margaret Morris, “Westtown’s Integration: ‘A Natural and Fruitful Enlargement of Our Lives,’” Quaker History, 95 (Fall 2006), 19–33.

Igwebuike, John G., “Legal and Policy Implications for Faculty Diversification in Higher Education,” Negro Educational Review, 57 (Fall–Winter 2006), 189–201.

Kantor, Harvey, and Robert Lowe, “From New Deal to No Deal: No Child Left Behind and the Devolution of Responsibility for Equal Opportunity,” Harvard Educational Review, 76 (Winter 2006), 474–502.

Krasner, Jonathan, “Jewish Chautauqua, Jewish History, and a Jewish Correspondence School: A Failed Experiment in Jewish Education,” American Jewish Archives Journal, 56 (no.1– 2 2004), 57–93.

Leffler, Phyllis, “Mr. Jefferson’s University: Women in the Village!,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 115 (no. 1, 2007), 56–107.

Nawrotzki, Kristen D., “‘Like sending coals to Newcastle’: Impressions from and of the Anglo-American Kindergarten Movements,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 43 (April 2007), 223–33.

Parson, Robert, “‘Leftward March’: 1930s Student Liberalism at the Utah State Agricultural College,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Spring 2007), 164–82.

Ravitch, Diane, “History’s Struggle to Survive in the Schools,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (April 2007), 28–34.

Reuben, Julie A., “Going National: American History Instruction in Colleges and Universities,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (April 2007), 33–38.

Stacy, Jason, “‘I do not think we can keep universities open with bayonets’: The May 1970 Riots at Southern Illinois University,” Journal of Illinois History, 9 (Winter 2006), 283–306.

Stole, Inger L., and Rebecca Livesay, “Consumer Activism, Commercialism, and Curriculum Choices: Advertising in Schools in the 1930s,” Journal of American Culture, 30 (March 2007), 68–80.

Vaisey, Stephen, “Education and Its Discontents: Overqualification in America, 1972–2002,” Social Forces, 85 (Dec. 2006), 835–64.

Walker, Christopher J., “The History of School Trust Lands in Nevada: The No Child Left Behind Act of 1864,” Nevada Law Journal, 7 (Fall 2006), 110–50.

Yokotsuka, Yuko, “Life Adjustment, Women’s Science, and Training for Low-Paid Jobs: Goals of Home Economics Education in Secondary Schools from 1950 to 1972,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 28 (2006), 43–62.

 

Bennison, Sarah, “Education for ‘Civilization’: Denominational Consensus and Missionary Education on the Rosebud Reservation, 1870–1920” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3215477.

Bird, Mary Dickinson, “Dame Bug and Her Students: The Science and Environmental Teaching of Edith Marion Patch” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3221584.

Causey, Evelyn Douglas, “The Character of a Gentleman: Deportment, Piety, and Morality in Southern Colleges and Universities, 1820–1860” (University of Delaware, 2006). Order No. DA3220636.

Clarke, Gary Lee, “Even the Books Were Separate: Court-Mandated Desegregation and Educators’ Professional Lives during the Caddo Crossover of 1969–1970” (Stephen P. Austin State University, 2006). Order No. DA3221725.

Collins, Christina, “‘Ethnically qualified’: A History of New York City Public School Teachers, 1920–1980” (University of Pennsylvania, 2006). Order No. DA3225443.

Cross, Godfrey Oliver, “Desegregation of Miami-Dade County Public Schools: 1954–1959” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2006). Order No. DA3225216.

Dial, Heather Kimberly, “Struggling for Voice in a Black and White World: Lumbee Indians’ Segregated Educational Experience in North Carolina” (North Carolina State University, 2006). Order No. DA3223127.

Duffy, Jennifer O’Connor, “Radcliffe College, 1940–1970: The Intersection of Gender, Social Class, and Historical Context” (Boston College, 2006). Order No. DA3221262.

Favors, Jelani Manu-Gowon, “Shelter in a Time of Storm: Black Colleges and the Rise of Student Activism in Jackson, Mississippi” (Ohio State University, 2006). Order No. DA3226519.

Fuisz, Lisbeth Strimple, “Contested Narratives of Nation Building: Schools and the Construction of a Unified Citizenry in Twentieth Century U.S. Culture” (George Washington University, 2006). Order No. DA3217547.

Gilbert, Matthew Thomas, “Education beyond the Mesas: Hopi Student Involvement at Sherman Institute, 1902–1929” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3226542.

Gombach, Marlene, “The Educational Experiences of Slovenian Women in Cleveland Public and Parochial Schools, 1920–1940” (Cleveland State University, 2006). Order No. DA3216296.

Jones, Bayinaah R., “The Tinsley Case Decision” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3219083.

Kidder, Ralph D., “The Evolution of Research Mission in Urban State Universities in Post–World War II America: A Comparative Case Study” (University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2006). Order No. DA3221371.

Kota Rossi, Jeanne, “Children of Czech Immigrants: Education and Acculturation in Cleveland, Ohio, 1920–1940” (Cleveland State University, 2006). Order No. DA3216303.

Ray, Jeffrey David, “The Education of Robert Lewis Dabney” (University of Southern Mississippi, 2006). Order No. DA3225230.

Robinson, David W., “Machine in the Ghost: The Industrialization of American Higher Education, 1865–1920” (George Fox University, 2006). Order No. DA3222534.

Spady, James O’Neil, “‘Like the spider from the rose’: Colonial Knowledge Competition and the Origins of Non-Elite Education in Georgia and South Carolina, 1700s–1820s” (College of William and Mary, 2006). Order No. DA3222150.

 

Benson, Lee, Ira Harkavy, and John Puckett, Dewey’s Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. xiv, 149 pp. Cloth, $59.50, isbn 978-1-59213-591-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-59213-592-9.)

Chodes, John, Destroying the Republic: Jabez Curry and the Re-Education of the Old South. (New York: Algora, 2005. xii, 332 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 0-87586-402-3. Paper, $23.95, isbn 0-87586-401-5.)

Douglass, John Aubrey, The Conditions for Admission: Access, Equity, and the Social Contract of Public Universities. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xvi, 332 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-8047-5558-0. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8047-5559-7.)

Frye, Ellen, ed., Knowledge with Know-How: Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2007. xx, 193 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-58465-650-0.)

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