Education - History

James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into black commitment to education, the peculiar significance of Tuskegee Institute, and the...

Education's Not the Point: Why Schools Fail to Train Children's Minds and Nurture Their CharactersThese essays are a "must read" for parents concerned about their children's education. John Taylor Gatto gives some insights into the "dumbed-down" nature of modern schools, the men behind modern...

Education: How Old The New The reason for publishing this volume of lectures and addresses is the persuasion that present-day educators are viewing the history of education with short-sighted vision. An impression prevails that only the last few generations have done work of serious...

El libro de Judas, en el Nuevo Testamento, cita directamente una profecía por nombre, atribuida a "Enoc." Busca ese libro en tu propia Biblia y no está ahí. Fue excluido -no perdido, excluido, a propósito- cuando se estableció el canon oficial siglos después. EL...

Descubre cómo fue que la Biblia se convirtió en la fuente de derechos humanos, justicia, heroísmo, optimismo, compasión, capitalismo, familia y moralidad.En los años sesenta muchos occidentales viajaron a Oriente en busca de sabiduría espiritual. El libro que dio forma al mundo hace el...

For fans of James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, a bold new popular history exposing the hidden truths about race long omitted from our school textbooksFollowing in the tradition of James Loewen's bestselling Lies My Teacher Told Me, Erased peels back the layers...

This Essay Planner is a perfect way to plan out your essays. Use this guided notebook for planning your essay. Each interior page includes sections and space to record the following: Title Subject Due Date Word Count Paragraph 1 & Body Paragraph 2 &...

What can the stories of community leaders reveal about the spirit and transformation of a city? Evanston Speaks: Oral Histories of Transformation and Triumph from Community Leaders in a Progressive City by Elliott Hurtig brings together powerful personal narratives that illuminate the evolving identity...

Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position...

History Pockets-Explorers of North America, Grades 4-6+, contains eleven discovery pockets. The introduction pocket gives an overview of exploration throughout North America. The other pockets feature ten famous explorers and their journeys.Each of the pockets contains: a reproducible pocket label a bookmark of short...

The book for America's 250th!FINDING OUR WORDS: Words That Made America is a collection of some of the most inspiring words spoken by American leaders since our founding, compiled and edited by Allison Ellis, with every speech launched with a prefacing essay by Tracy...

Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses - A selection from Miss Nightingale's addresses to probationers and nurses of the Nightingale school at St. Thomas's hospitalBetween 1872 and 1900 Miss Nightingale used, when she was able, to send an annual letter or address to the probationer-nurses...

Explore the Captivating Lives of the Founding FathersEight captivating manuscripts in one book: - Benjamin Franklin: A Captivating Guide to an American Polymath and a Founding Father of the United States of America - George Washington: A Captivating Guide to an American Founding Father...

First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum...

First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum...

Furman University: A Bicentennial History, 1826-2026 is a beautiful, hardbound, full-color coffee table book published in commemoration of Furman's bicentennial. Featuring a foreword from President Elizabeth Davis, 1,100 historic and contemporary images, and over 250 pages of narrative, this history illuminates the people and...

Georgetown University is a new book by alumni Paul ONeill (C'86) and Bennie Smith (C'86).The book includes 200 images from Georgetown University's archives along with captions that tell the story of the university's first 200 years.Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic university in America, was...

Georgia Tech has become one of the nation's top-10-ranked public universities and boasts a former U.S. president, TV personality and Hall-of-Fame athletes among its prominent alumni.From humble beginnings as a small technological institute that opened in 1888, Georgia Tech is now renowned throughout the...

Giving Voice To Linnentown is a compelling true story about a young Black girl's family that lived in a thriving small Black community called Linnentown. Written by Hattie Thomas Whitehead, she describes her early childhood years in the 1960s and how her life and...

In the tradition of Sebastian Junger's Tribe and Chris Hedges's classic War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, a powerful investigation into the fraught history and ominous future of military education in the United States, and how it formed and fuels increasingly volatile...