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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.