March 30 - 31, 2000
New Directions in the History of Education
Reading List of Works Suggested by Conference Participants
Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995.
Anderson, James. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Axtell, James. The School Upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974.
Ayers, Edward L., et. al. All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.
Brown, Michael K. Race, Money, and the American Welfare State. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.
Cecelski, David S. Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina and the Fate of Black Schools in the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Cherry, Conrad. Hurrying Toward Zion: Universities, Divinity Schools, and American Protestantism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Clark, Beverly Lyon and Margaret R. Higonnet, eds. Girls, Boys, Books, Toys: Gender In Children's Literature And Culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Clemens, Elisabeth S. The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Cohen, Sol. Challenging Orthodoxies: Toward a New Cultural History of Education. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.
Copelman, Dina M. London's Women Teachers: Gender, Class and Feminism, 1870-1930. London: Routledge, 1996.
Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education, The Metropolitan Experience, 1876-1980. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.
________. American Education, The National Experience, 1783-1876. New York: Harper and Row, 1980.
________. American Education, The Colonial Experience, 1607-1783. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
________. The Wonderful World of Ellwood Patterson Cubberley: An Essay on the Historiography of American Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 1965.
Durkheim, Emile. The Evolution of Educational Thought: Lectures on the Formation and Development of Secondary Education in France. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977.
Faderman, Lillian. To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America—A History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Fass, Paula S. Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Feinberg, Walter. Common Schools/Uncommon Identities: National Unity and Cultural Difference. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (trans. by Alan Sheridan). New York: Pantheon Books, 1977.
Freeland, Richard M. Academia's Golden Age: Universities in Massachusetts, 1945-1970. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Gallegos, Bernardo P. Literacy, Education, and Society in New Mexico, 1693-1821. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Gleason, Philip. Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Gould, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man. New York: Norton, 1981.
Hart, D.G. The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Hirschman, Albert O. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Hofstadter, Richard and Walter Metzger. Academic Freedom in the Age of the College and Academic Freedom in the Age of the University. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955.
Kaestle, Carl. Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading Since 1880. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
________. Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
Karier, Clarence J. The Individual, Society, and Education: A History of American Education Ideas, 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.
Kemeny, Paul Charles. Princeton in the Nation's Service: Religious Ideals and Educational Practice, 1868-1928. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Kett, Joseph F. The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: From Self-Improvement to Adult Education in America, 1750-1990. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.
Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. New York: Knopf, 1975.
Labaree, David F. How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning: The Credential Race in American Education. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe. The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1989.
Lemann, Nicolas. The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999.
Lewis, David Levering. W.E.B. DuBois--Biography of a Race, 1868-1919. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1993.
Lewis, Earl. "Invoking Concepts, Problematizing Identities: The Life of Charles N. Hunter and the Implications for the Study of Gender and Labor." Labor History 34, 1993.
Marsden, George M. The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Marwick, Arthur. The Sixties: Cultural Transformation in Britain, France, Italy and the United States, 1958-1974. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Michel, Sonya. Children's Interests/Mother's Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Murphy, Marjorie. Blackboard Unions: The AFT and the NEA, 1900-1980. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Murray, Pauli. Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage. New York: Harper and Row, 1987.
Novick, Peter. That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Patterson, Orlando. The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America's "Racial" Crisis. Washington, DC: Civitas/Counterpoint, 1997.
Perlmann, Joel. Ethnic Differences: Schooling and Social Structure Among the Irish, Italians, Jews, and Blacks in an American City, 1880-1935. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Reese, William J. The Origins of the American High School. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
Reuben, Julie A. The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Rodgers, Daniel. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1998.
Rossinow, Douglas C. The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Rossiter, Margaret L. Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
________. Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
Rousmaniere, Kate. City Teachers: Teaching and School Reform in Historical Perspective. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997.
Ruiz, Vicky. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Shepard, Robert S. God's People in the Ivory Tower: Religion in the Early American University. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing, Inc., 1991.
Sloan, Douglas. Faith & Knowledge: Mainline Protestantism and American Higher Education. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994.
Smith, Bonnie G. The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Smith, Rogers. Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Solomon, Barbara Miller. In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
Stevenson, Louise. Scholarly Means to Evangelical Ends: The New Haven Scholars and the Transformation of Higher Learning in America, 1830-1890. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
Tamura, Eileen. Amerianization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity: The Nisei Generation in Hawaii. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Turner, Ralph. "Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System." American Sociological Review (1960) 25, 855-867.
Tyack, David & Larry Cuban. Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Tyack, David & Elisabeth Hansot. Learning Together: A History of Coeducation in American Public Schools. New Haven: Yale University Press. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1990.
Tyack, David. The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974.
United States, President's Commission on Higher Education. "Higher Education for American Democracy." 6 vols., Washington, DC: GPO, 1947-48.
Veysey, Laurence R. The Emergence of the American University. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.
Vincent, David. Literacy and Popular Culture, England 1750-1914. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Vinovskis, Maris A. History and Educational Policymaking. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Walker, Vanessa Siddle. Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Weber, David J. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Weiler, Kathleen. Country Schoolwomen: Teaching in Rural California, 1850-1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
White, Richard. Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family's Past. NewYork: Hill and Wang, 1998.
Willinsky, John. Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire's End. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Zboray, Ronald J. A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.