The growth of the American high school that occurred in the twentieth century is among the most remarkable educational, social, and cultural phenomena of the tw

In this fascinating collection, some of the foremost historians of education—including Barbara Beatty, Larry Cuban, Linda Eisenmann, Yoon Pak, John Rury, and

In antebellum America, Black children, even those of tax-paying Blacks in most states could not attend White public schools or in some states any schools. Never

James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a