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| Author | Steven Mintz |
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| Subject | History of childhood, United States history |
| Published | 2004 (Harvard University Press) |
| Pages | 445 |
| ISBN | 978-0-674-01998-0 |
Huck's Raft is a history of American childhood and youth, written by Steven Mintz. The 2006 H-Net review wrote that the book was the best single-volume history of its kind.
Pillars of the Republic is history book on the origins of the American common schools written by Carl Kaestle and published by Hill & Wang in 1983.
Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age is a book written in 1993 by Michael Apple about the inherent politics of educational practice and policy. Its themes include right-wing cultural hegemony, control of textbook contents, and the role of private business in schools. It has received three editions.
The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States is a history book about Ferrer Schools by Paul Avrich.
American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas is a 2011 book about the reception of Friedrich Nietzsche in the United States by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. It won the American Historical Association's John H. Dunning Prize (2013), Society for U.S. Intellectual History Annual Book Award (2013), and Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the Best First Book in Intellectual History (2013).
Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico's Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States is a history book by Ruben Flores about the connection between post-revolutionary Mexico and the American Civil Rights Movement. University of Pennsylvania Press published the book in 2014. It won the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Book Award the next year.
History's Memory is a history book about historiography of United States history. It was written by Ellen Fitzpatrick and published by Harvard University Press in October 2004.
Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America is a 1995 oral history book of 53 interviews with anarchists over 30 years by Paul Avrich.
Kronstadt, 1921, is a history book by Paul Avrich about the 1921 Kronstadt rebellion against the Bolsheviks.
An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre is book written by Paul Avrich. It is a biography of Voltairine de Cleyre.
The Haymarket Tragedy is a 1984 history book by Paul Avrich about the Haymarket affair and the resulting trial.
Milton Gaither is an historian of education and a professor at Messiah College. Some of his most notable works include American Educational History Revisited, on the historiography of American education, and Homeschool: An American History.
Preschool Education in America: The Culture of Young Children from the Colonial Era to the Present is a 1995 history of preschool education in the United States written by Barbara Beatty.
Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance is a 1985 book on everyday forms of rural class conflict as illustrated in a Malaysian village, written by anthropologist James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press.
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom is a book that tells the history of African American self-education from slavery through the Reconstruction Era. It was written by history professor Heather Andrea Williams and published in 2007 by the University of North Carolina Press.
Heather A. Williams is a scholar of African American studies and lawyer. She serves as Presidential Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America is a book by historian Kenyon Zimmer that covers the anarchist ideology practiced by Italian immigrants and Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York City, San Francisco, and Paterson, New Jersey, at the turn of the 20th century. The book was published by University of Illinois Press in 2015.
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940 is a 1994 history book by George Chauncey about gay life in New York City during the early 20th century. An updated 2019 edition commemorates the Stonewall Rebellion's 50th anniversary.
David F. Labaree is a historian of education and Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University.
A Primer of Libertarian Education is a 1975 book by Joel Spring on the tradition of libertarian (anarchist) education.
Geoffrey J. Giles is a historian of Germany and professor emeritus at the University of Florida.
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