The
History of Education Society
2000
Annual Meeting
19-22
October 2000
Holiday
Inn – Market Square
San
Antonio, Texas
David
Adams, Cleveland State University
Derrick
Alridge, University of Georgia
Barbara
Beatty, Wellesley College
Linda
Eisenmann, University of Massachusetts, Boston
John
M. Heffron, Soka University of America
Craig
Kridel, University of South Carolina
Valinda
Littlefield, University of South Carolina
Gary
McCulloch, University of Sheffield
Kathleen
Murphey, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Jana
Nidiffer, University of Michigan
Thomas
O'Brien, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Yoon
Pak, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Theresa
Richardson, University of South Florida
Alan
Sadovnik, Adelphi University
Carol
Trone, University of Wisconsin
8:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m.:
Registration
Book
Exhibit
Friday,
8:30 to 9:45: Concurrent Sessions
Chair:
John Rury, The Spencer Foundation
Andrew
Dickson White and Alexander Winchell: Competing Perspectives on Science and
Religion in the Late Nineteenth Century Academy
Jeffrey
P. Bouman, University
of Michigan
The
Use of Skinnerian Teaching Machines and Programmed Instruction in U.S. Schools
During 1960-1970
Martha
Casas, University
of Texas of the Permian Basin
Above
All, Science: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Rice Institute for the Advancement of
Literature, Science, and Art
Susan
R. Richardson, Pennsylvania
State University
On
the Portability of Technique: The Military Context of Cold War Curriculum Reform
--- from Project TROY to PSSC
John
L. Rudolph, University
of Wisconsin-Madison
Comment:
Audience
Chair:
Jim Green, Cincinnati, Ohio
The Whiteness of
Desegregation: Race, Gender and Social Class at Little Rock, Arkansas,
1957-1959
Phoebe
Godfrey,
New York, NY
Southern
Liberalism and the Making of An American Dilemma: Jackson Davis of the
GEB, Gunnar Myrdal, the “Negro Problem” in America
Jennings
L. Wagoner,
University of Virginia
The
RILEEH Program: The University of Iowa's Role in the Southern Freedom Struggle,
1963-69
Richard
M. Breaux, University
of Iowa
Discussant:
Anne Ellen Phillips, School District of
Philadelphia
Educating
the Next Generation: Women Professionals as Role Models in Twentieth Century
America
Chair
and Discussant: Linda M. Perkins, Hunter
College
Mary
Ann Dzuback,
Washington University
Private
Life and Public Voice: Dorothy Thompson Talks to Her Readers about Gender and
Society
Lynn
D. Gordon, University
of Rochester
Friday,
10:00 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.: Special Interest Session
Host:
Bruce Leslie, SUNY, Brockport
Protecting
and Strengthening the Dream: California Junior Colleges During the Great
Depression
Edward
A. Gallagher, Oakland
Community College
Friday,
10:45 a.m. to 11:20 a.m.: Special Interest Session
American
Thought and German Emigrant Theorists
Host:
James C. Albisetti, University of Kentucky
The
Influence of American Thought on Two Educational Theorists Who Emigrated to the
USA During National Socialism in Germany, 1933‑1945
Anja‑Silvia
Goeing, University
of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg
Friday,
10:00 a.m. to 11: 15 a.m.: Concurrent Sessions
Autonomy
and Participation: University Reform in France and Puerto Rico
Chair
and Discussant: Julie Reuben, Harvard Graduate School of
Education
French
University Reform After 1968: The Case of Vincennes
Hanley
Cocks, University
of California, Santa Cruz
The
Role of Students in the Reforming of Public Higher Education in Puerto Rico
(1955-1966)
Silvia
E. Rabionet, Harvard
Graduate School of Education
Chair: Edward R. Beauchamp, University
of Hawai’i
Silencing
through Ideological Control: Chinese Students in American Higher Education and
Their Roles in Chinese American Communities, 1908-1954
Carol
Huang,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Everyday
Legal Forms of Resistance and Injustice
Sieglinde
Lim de Sanchez,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Loyalty
as Resistance: Nisei Students’ Response on the Eve of Their
Incarceration
Yoon
K. Pak, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Eileen H. Tamura, University of
Hawai’i
Critical
Reflections and Scholarly Assessments: Three Historians Respond to the Recent
Scholarship on Deans of Women
Chair:
Christine Ogren, University of Iowa
Scholar/Critics:
Amy
Thompson McCandless,
College of Charleston
Linda
Eisenmann,
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Bruce
Leslie,
SUNY, Brockport
Works
Discussed:
Pioneering
Deans of Women: More than Wise and Pious Matrons
Jana Nidiffer,
University
of Michigan
Stalwart
Women: A Historical Analysis of Deans of Women in the
South
Carolyn Bashaw,
Le
Moyne College
Friday,
11:30 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.: Special Interest Session
Conflicts
in Frontier Schools
Host:
David Adams, Cleveland State University
“The
School Is Under My Direction”: The Politics of Education at Fort
Vancouver
Stephen
Woolworth,
Tacoma, Washington
Chair:
James C. Carper, University of South Carolina
Freedom
of Thought at the University of Virginia, 1835-1853.
Alex
J. Angelo,
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Student
Political Freedoms in the Early Twentieth Century: The Case of the Harvard Men’s
League for Woman Sufferage
Carrie
Daniels,
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Griswold
and the Fifth Amendment during McCarthyism
Jennifer
Delaney,
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Discussant:
Sarah Barnes, Boulder, Colorado
The
Joys of Self-Improvement: Women's Dedication to Education in Antebellum
America
Chair:
Sally Schwager, Harvard University
“Thirsting
for the Pure Waters of Knowledge”: Women's Desires for Education in the
Antebellum Era
Margaret
Nash,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Endeavor
to Improve Myself”: The Education of White Women in the Antebellum
South
Kathryn
L. Walbert,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant:
Nancy Beadie, University of Washington
Chair:
Jennings L. Wagoner, University of Virginia
Radical
Experiment and the Search for Order: German Immigrant Education in Colonial
Pennsylvania
Amy
Schutt,
Colgate University
For
What Reasons Charity? Financial Aid in Colonial American Higher
Education
Dennis
H. Holtschneider, Niagara
University
Discussant:
Marcia G. Synnott, University of South Carolina
Friday,
2:00 p.m. to 2:40 p.m.: Special Interest Session
Religion
and Education
Host:
Katherine Reynolds, University of South Carolina
Secularism
as State Religion? American Public Education and the Christian
Right
Catherine
Lugg, Rutgers
University
Friday,
2:45 p.m. to 3:25 p.m.: Special Interest Session
Educating
Emancipated Slaves
Host:
Ronald E. Butchart, University of Georgia
The
Problem of Race in the Age of Freedom: Emancipation and Schooling in Baltimore,
1861‑1867
Robert
S. Wolff, Central
Connecticut State University
Friday, 2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.: Concurrent
Sessions
“Adas
Don't Dance, They Disco”: Women's Colleges and Non-Traditional
Students
Debbie
Cottrell,
Smith College
The
Emergence of the Modern University: A Perfect Solution to an Ailing
Manhood
Carol
Fulton, Iowa
State University
Discussant:
Jana Nidiffer, University of Michigan
Biography
in Educational History: Contrasting Approaches
Chair:
Kathleen Murphey, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort
Wayne
Gogues,
Petagogues, and Supergogues: H.L. Mencken’s Critique of American
Education
James
Wallace,
Lewis and Clark College, Emeritus
“In
this Aristocratic Town?” Labor, Women and Those “Cursed Socialists”: A
Collective Biography of End-of-the-Century School Politics in Southern
California
Michael
James,
Connecticut College
Discussant:
Craig Kridel, University of South Carolina
The
Common Curriculum: the View from Educational History
Chair:
Barry Franklin, University of Michigan-Flint
Nancy
Beadie, University
of Washington
Herbert
M. Kliebard, University
of Wisconsin-Madison
Gary
McCulloch, University
of Sheffield
Jeffrey
Mirel, Emory
University
Friday,
3:30 p.m. to 4:10 p.m.: Special Interest Session
The
Liberal Arts in the History of Higher Education
Host:
Daniel Perlstein, University of California,
Berkeley
Expanding
the Canon and the “Oxbridge” Tutorial: The University of Virginia's Unique
Contributions to the Liberal Arts Movement
William
N. Haarlow,
Charlottesville, Virginia
Friday,
3:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.: Concurrent Sessions
Aspects
of Progressive Education from Indiana to Germany
Chair:
TBA
“A
Child World and a Club House for Adults”: School Architecture and the
Work-Study-Play System in Gary, Indiana, 1907-1930
Dale
Allen Gyure,
Ruckersville, Virginia
Addressing
the Menace of the Feebleminded: George Bliss, Amos Butler, and the Indiana
Committee on Mental Defectives, 1912-1924,
Robert
L. Osgood, Purdue
University
Different
and Similar Modes of Education in the Twentieth Century Progressive Education in
Germany and the United States
Karl-Heinz
Fuessl, Humboldt
Universitaet
Discussant:
Alan A. Sadovnik, Adelphi University
Hidden
Histories of Education: Teachers and Students' Lives and Experiences – A
Symposium
Convener:
John Rhodes Paige, St. Edward’s University
Michelle
Russell Nakayama,
University of Maryland, College Park
Antionette
Errante,
Ohio State University
Barbara
Finkelstein,
University of Maryland
John
Rhodes Paige,
St. Edward’s University
On
Whose Authority? A White Teacher's Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the
1940s
Yoon
K. Pak, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
White
on White: Exploring the Early History of White Teachers and Race in
Chicago
Kate
Rousmaniere, Miami
University, Ohio
The
Challenge of Evidentiary Standards
Cally
L. Waite, Columbia
University
Discussant:
James D. Anderson, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Friday,
5:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
History
of Education Society Business Meeting
Friday,
6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Annual
History of Education Society Banquet
8:00
a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Registration
Book
Exhibit
Saturday,
8:30 a.m. to 9:45 p.m.: Concurrent Sessions