Recent Scholarship
Education
Breaux, Richard M., “‘To the Uplift and Protection of Young Womanhood’: African-American Women at Iowa’s Private Colleges and the University of Iowa, 1878–1928,” History of Education Quarterly, 50 (May 2010), 159–81.
Butchart, Ronald E., “Black Hope, White Power: Emancipation, Reconstruction, and the Legacy of Unequal Schooling in the U.S. South, 1861–1880,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 46 (Feb. 2010), 33–50.
Delmont, Matthew, “The Plight of the ‘Able Student’: Ruth Wright Hayre and the Struggle for Equality in Philadelphia’s Black High Schools, 1955–1965,” History of Education Quarterly, 50 (May 2010), 204–30.
Go, Sun, and Peter Lindert, “The Uneven Rise of American Public Schools to 1850,” Journal of Economic History, 70 (March 2010), 1–26.
Gold, David, “Students Writing Race at Southern Public Women’s Colleges, 1884–1945,” History of Education Quarterly, 50 (May 2010), 182–203.
Helton, Emily G., “Education and Gender in New Philadelphia,” Historical Archaeology, 44 (no. 1, 2010), 112–24.
Heukelom, Floris, “Measurement and Decision Making at the University of Michigan in the 1950s and 1960s,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 46 (Spring 2010), 189–207.
Laats, Adam, “Forging a Fundamentalist ‘One Best System’: Struggles over Curriculum and Educational Philosophy for Christian Day Schools, 1970–1989,” History of Education Quarterly, 50 (Feb. 2010), 55–83.
Pisapia, Michael Callaghan, “The Authority of Women in the Political Development of American Public Education, 1860–1930,” Studies in American Political Development, 24 (April 2010), 24–56.
Sartorius, Kelly C., “Experimental Autonomy: Dean Emily Taylor and the Women’s Movement at the University of Kansas,” Kansas History, 33 (Spring 2010), 2–21. Heavily illustrated.
Simpson, Michael W., “Enigma and Battleground: The Development of Oklahoma’s Public Two-Year Colleges,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Winter 2009–2010), 460–83.
Tamura, Eileen H., “Value Messages Collide with Reality: Joseph Kurihara and the Power of Informal Education,” History of Education Quarterly, 50 (Feb. 2010), 1–33.
Thompson, Nicole, “Utah, the Anti–Vietnam War Movement, and the University of Utah,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 78 (Spring 2010), 154–74.
Turner, William B., “The Ultimate Victory of a Productive Life: Ben F. Johnson Jr. and African Americans at Emory Law School, 1962–71,” Journal of Legal Education, 58 (Dec. 2008), 563–78.
Turpin, Andrea L., “The Ideological Origins of the Women’s College: Religion, Class, and Curriculum in the Educational Visions of Catharine Beecher and Mary Lyon,” History of Education Quarterly, 50 (May 2010), 133–58.
Urban, Wayne J., “James Bryant Conant and Equality of Educational Opportunity,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 46 (Feb. 2010), 193–205.
Wechsler, Harold S., “Brewing Bachelors: The History of the University of Newark,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 46 (Feb. 2010), 229–49.
Bachmann, Monika M., “Geography in Virginia: Four Hundred Years of Geography and Geography Education in the Old Dominion” (George Mason University, 2009). Order No. DA3360504.
Benson, Lynne Byall, “Transformations in the Role of Dean of Women in the Post–Progressive Era, 1925–1940” (Cornell University, 2009). Order No. DA3362568.
Clingerman, Mary, “‘On Intimate and Friendly Terms’: A Regional Comparison of Gender, Space, and Community in Antebellum Higher Education” (Michigan State University, 2009). Order No. DA3363816.
Cvitkovic, Vicky S., “From Women’s College to Coordinate Education to Coeducation: The Historical Evolution of Rockford College” (University of Rochester, 2009). Order No. DA3367258.
Faehmel, Babette, “Before the Second Wave: College Women, Cultural Literacy, Sexuality, and Identity, 1940–1965” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009). Order No. DA3359135.
Gibson, Judith Spofford, “Bridging the Charles: The First Women Graduates of the Harvard Business School, 1960–1965” (Drew University, 2009). Order No. DA3364857.
Hale, Jon N., “A History of Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1954–1965” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2009). Order No. DA3363131.
Huang, Belinda, “Teaching Chineseness in the Trans-Pacific Society: Overseas Chinese Education in Canada and the United States, 1900–1919” (Princeton University, 2009). Order No. DA3364537.
Kolb, Carole, “Coaching from the Sidelines: A Comparative History of the Role of University Presidents in Intercollegiate Football” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009). Order No. DA3367325.
Korn, Randi L., “The Responses to Darwin in the Normal School Science and Educational Methods Curriculum: 1870–1930” (University of Massachusetts, Boston, 2009). Order No. DA3361082.
Laukaitis, John J., “Community Self-Determination in Uptown Chicago: A Social and Cultural History of American Indian Educational Programs and Experiences, 1952–2002” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3367114.
Levin, Matthew, “The Sixties and the Cold War University: Madison, Wisconsin and the Development of the New Left” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009). Order No. DA3368270.
McMurry, Philip M., “Civilian Education and the Preparation for Service and Leadership in Antebellum America, 1845–1860” (Kent State University, 2009). Order No. DA3367673.
Pollock, Wendy, “Educational Experiences of Jewish Adult Child Survivors of the Holocaust” (Teacher’s College, Columbia University, United States, 2009). Order No. DA3368414.
Rufledt, Susan Carol, “United States Indian Education Policy and Reform: The Survival of Catholic Indian Education on the Menominee Reservation, 1884–1912” (University of Kansas, 2009). Order No. DA3360102.
Tigga, Ranjit, “Rise, Decline, and Re-emergence of Media Literacy Education in the United States, 1960–2000” (Marquette University, 2009). Order No. DA3357973.
Weir, Heather Elizabeth, “Teaching the Bible with Sarah Trimmer” (Wycliffe College, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR48718.
Clark, John B., W. Bruce Leslie, and Kenneth P. O’Brien, eds., suny at Sixty: The Promise of the State University of New York. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010. xxii, 365 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-1-4384-3303-5. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-1-4384-3302-8.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Kilde, Jeanne Halgren, Nature and Revelation: A History of Macalester College. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. xii, 400 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8166-5626-4. Paper, isbn 978-0-8166-5627-1.)
Nelson, Cary, No University Is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom. (New York: New York University Press, 2010. x, 289 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8147-5859-5.)
Smith, Brett H., Labor’s Millennium: Christianity, Industrial Education, and the Founding of the University of Illinois. (Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick, 2010. xii, 188 pp. Paper, $23.00, isbn 978-1-60608-067-2.)
Baumann, Roland M., Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College: A Documentary History. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. xxii, 418 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1887-1.)
Potts, David B., Liberal Education for a Land of Colleges: Yale’s Reports of 1828. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xx, 242 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-230-62203-6.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.


