History of Education

## *Synthesis*

* Between Professional and Scholarly: Historiographical Trends in the History of Education
* Inherent Tensions: Discipline, Piety, Intellect, and Professionalism in the Rise of the American College and University

## *Themes*

* K-12
* Higher Education
* Philosophy, Science, and the Nature of Knowledge
* Bureaucracy

## *Readings*

#### **Historiography**

Donato, Ruben; Lazerson, Marvin. “New Directions in American Educational History: Problems and Prospects,” Educational Researcher 29 (November 2000), 4-15.

“Interchange: History in the Professional Schools,” Journal of American History 92 (September 2005), 553-576.

Rury, John. “The Curious Status of the History of Education: A Parallel Perspective,” History of Education Quarterly, Winter 2006

Veysey, Laurence. “The History of Education,” Reviews in American History 10 (1982), 281-291.

#### **American Higher Education**

Biondi, Martha. *The Black Revolution on Campus*. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2014.

Cohen, Robert and Synder, David J., ed. *Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s*. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2013.

Boren, Mark Edelman. *Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject*. Routledge, 2001.

Frederick, Rudolph. *American College and University: A History*. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1990.

Heineman, Kenneth J. *Campus Wars: The Peace Movement at American State Universities in the Vietnam Era*. New York: NYU Press, 1994.

Horowitz, Helen. *Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Jewett, Andrew. *Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War.* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Kelley, Mary. *Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic*. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Loss, Christopher P. *Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.

Rueben, Julie. *Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Scott, Anne Firor “The Ever Widening Circle: The Diffusion of Feminist Values from the Troy Female Seminar, 1822-1872,” History of Education Quarterly 19 (1979), 3-25.

Thelin, John R. *A History of American Higher Education*. Baltimore, Md.: John Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Veysey, Lawrence. *Emergence of the American University*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Wallerstein, Peter. *Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement: White Supremacy, Black Southerners, and College Campuses*. Gainesville, Florida: University Press Florida, 2009.

Wilder, Craig Steven. *Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities*. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2014.

#### **American K-12**

Adams, David Wallace. *Education For Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience*. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1995.

Anderson, James. *The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935*. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Bailyn, Bernard. *Education in the Forming of American Society: Needs and Opportunities for Study*. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1960.

Cremin, Lawrence Arthur. *The American Common School: An Historic Conception*. New York: Columbia University Press, 1951.

Goldstein, Dana. *The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession'.'* New York: Doubleday, 2014.

Katz, Michael. *Reconstructing American Education*. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Kliebard, Herbet. *Struggle for the American Curriculum,* 1893-1958. London: Routledge, 1986.

McGuinn, Patrick. *No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965-2005*. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2006.

Paterson, James T. *Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and its Troubled Legacy*. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Ravitch, Diane. *The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education*. New York: Basic Books, 2011.

Rudolph, John. *Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education.* Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Reese, William J. *America’s Public Schools: From the Common School to "No Child Left Behind.”* Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Shapiro, Adam. *Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools*. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Tyack, David. *The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,* 1974.

Tyack, David and Cuban, Larry. *Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform.* Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Williams, Heather. *Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom*. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Zimmerman, Jonathan. *Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools* . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.

**Philosophical/Critiques of the Institution**

##### Bourdieu, Pierre. *Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture*, 2nd Edition. Sage Publications, 2002.

Young, Michael. *Knowledge and Control: New Directions in the Sociology of Education*. Macmillan, 1971.

#### **Comparative/Global:**

Bender, Thomas. *The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present*. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Bagchi, Barnita; Eckhardt Fuchs; Rousmaniere, Kate, ed. *Connecting Histories of Education: Transnational and Cross Cultural Exchanges in Post-Colonial Education*. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014.

Carson, John. *The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Clark, William. *Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University.* Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Elman, Benjamin. *Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China*. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Jacobs, Margaret D. “Maternal Colonialism: White Women and Indigenous Child Removal in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940” Western Historical Quarterly 36 (2005), 453-76.

Tony, Taylor; Guyver, Robert, ed. *History Wars and the Classroom: Global Perspectives*. Information Age Publishing, 2011.

Walton, Whitney A. *Internationalism, National Identities, and Study Abroad: France and the United States, 1890–1970*. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.