History of education

At the turn of the twentieth century, the US government viewed education as one sure way of civilizing others under its swayamong them American Indians and, after 1898, Filipinos.

Once hailed as 'the eternal state', the Ottoman Empire was in decline by the end of the nineteenth century, finally collapsing under the pressures of World War I.

The University of Oxford was a medieval wonder.

Although the early history of progressive education is often associated with John Dewey in America, the author argues convincingly that the pedagogues in the elementary schools in the big cities of Imperial Germany were in the avant garde of this movement on the European Continent.

This volume will examine the history of special education by categorical areas (e.

Today George Peabody College is a part of Vanderbilt University, as it has been since its merger in 1979.

Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section Moral electricitya term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society.

In February 1954, President Eisenhower invited Chief Justice Warren to dinner at the White House.

For over six centuries, the University of Oxford had been an exclusively male bastion of privilege and opportunity.

Challenged by Coeducation details the responses of women's colleges to the most recent wave of Women's colleges originated in the mid-nineteenth century as a response to women's exclusion from higher education.

For more than three decades, the same children's historical novels have been taught across the United States.

Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section Moral electricitya term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society.

The motto of Berea College is "e;God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth,"e; a phrase underlying Berea's 150-year commitment to egalitarian education.

Secondary Education for All cannot be considered independently from the life and career of its author, R.

Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts.

An important historical account of Tuskegee University's significant advances in health care, which affected millions of lives worldwide.

A study of Louisiana French Creole sugar planters' role in higher education and a detailed history of the only college ever constructed to serve the sugar elite The education of individual planter classes-cotton, tobacco, sugar-is rarely treated in works of southern history.

A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the National Defense Education Act.

The Village on the Plain tells the story of the founding of Auburn University as a small private college and the tumultuous history of its growth and transformation into the complex institution it is today.

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WINNER OF THE SUSAN COLVER ROSENBERGER AWARD A foundational work of educational history, Horace Mann Bond's study reveals how race, labor, and power shaped Black schooling in Alabama-and why those lessons still matter today.

Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865-1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America's land-grant institutions.

Contributes to a better understanding of Horace Mann and the educational reform movement he advanced Head Masters challenges the assumption that phrenology-the study of the conformation of the skull as it relates to mental faculties and character-played only a minor and somewhat anecdotal role in the development of education.

This book documents the period when a handful of University of Alabama student activists formed an alliance with President Frank A.

Recounts the history and development of Jesuit higher education in the American South R.

Where tradition meets bureaucracy-Native students redefine education on their own terms.

Tracing the birth of American museums and the curators who shaped a nation's cultural identity.

An authoritative popular history that places the state in regional and national context.

The first of many homestead communities designed during the rollout of the New Deal, Arthurdale, West Virginia, was a bold experiment in progressive social planning.

The first of many homestead communities designed during the rollout of the New Deal, Arthurdale, West Virginia, was a bold experiment in progressive social planning.

The first woman elected superintendent of schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, Cora Wilson Stewart (1875-1958) realized that a major key to overcoming the illiteracy that plagued her community was to educate adult illiterates.

The motto of Berea College is "e;God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth,"e; a phrase underlying Berea's 150-year commitment to egalitarian education.

The relationship between a town and its local institutions of higher education is often fraught with turmoil.

On April 30, 1975, Saigon and the government of South Vietnam fell to the communist regime of North Vietnam, ending-for American military forces-exactly twenty-five year of courageous but unavailing struggle.

Kentucky is nationally renowned for horses, bourbon, rich natural resources, and unfortunately, hindered by a deficient educational system.

In 1917, fifty-two years after its founding, the University of Kentucky faced stagnation, financial troubles, and disturbing reports of nepotism, resulting in a leadership crisis.

Established in 1789, the University of North Carolina is the oldest public university in the nation.

This colorful collection of stories celebrates a fascinating aspect of Kentucky’s cultural heritage in “a fascinating look back at a bygone era” (Kentucky Monthly).

The relationship between a town and its local institutions of higher education is often fraught with turmoil.

The first woman elected superintendent of schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, Cora Wilson Stewart (18751958) realized that a major key to overcoming the illiteracy that plagued her community was to educate adult illiterates.

The motto of Berea College is "e;God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth,"e; a phrase underlying Berea's 150-year commitment to egalitarian education.

Established in 1789, the University of North Carolina is the oldest public university in the nation.

In 1917, fifty-two years after its founding, the University of Kentucky faced stagnation, financial troubles, and disturbing reports of nepotism, resulting in a leadership crisis.

Kentucky is nationally renowned for horses, bourbon, rich natural resources, and unfortunately, hindered by a deficient educational system.

In 1917, fifty-two years after its founding, the University of Kentucky faced stagnation, financial troubles, and disturbing reports of nepotism, resulting in a leadership crisis.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of English literature began to be divided into courses that surveyed discrete "e;periods.

Eugenie Luce was a French schoolteacher who fled her husband and abandoned her family, migrating to Algeria in the early 1830s.

Iranian history was long told through a variety of stories and legend, tribal lore and genealogies, and tales of the prophets.

This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar and critic of matters French than a series of differently angled fragments, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman's amour vache-his injured and occasionally injurious love-for France and the French.

Written by a respected science educator and advocate for women and girls in STEM fields, this one-stop resource provides a rich overview of efforts to provide women and girls with greater access to educational and career opportunities in traditionally male-dominated STEM fields.