Leaders in the Historical Study of American Education

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Historian Despite the Odds....Pages 7-19
Serendipity, or So it Would Seem....Pages 21-31
Memoir....Pages 33-44
Teacher, Superintendent, Scholar....Pages 45-54
One Office, or two? My Double Life as a Historian of Education....Pages 55-67
Becoming A Historian....Pages 69-80
Life at The Margin of Possiblity....Pages 81-93
Becoming A Historian of Higher Education....Pages 95-106
The Personal is The Political and The Professional....Pages 107-115
From The Wabash to The Hudson to The Charles....Pages 117-127
Scholarship and Fellowship....Pages 129-141
Soldier-Scholar....Pages 143-152
History of Education....Pages 153-164
On Becoming A Historian of American Education....Pages 165-177
An Accidental Historian....Pages 179-192
Adventures in Scholarship....Pages 193-204
A Progressive Education....Pages 205-216
Three Teachers....Pages 217-229
“Oh, the Places you’ll go!” and Other Good Things about being A Historian of Education....Pages 231-240
Story Telling and History....Pages 241-254
Seeking A Social and Urban History of Education....Pages 255-264
Reminiscences of A Teacher....Pages 265-273
A View From the Provinces....Pages 275-285
From Riga to Ann Arbor....Pages 287-298
Seriatim....Pages 299-312
Eight Subway Stops on The Brighton Line—and What Happened in Between....Pages 313-321
Back Matter....Pages 323-325