Local Arrangements Coordinator

John Burton, DePaul University

Special Thanks to:

- Howard Grotch, former dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky; David Hamilton, chair, Department of History, University of Kentucky; David Durant, director, Honors Program, University of Kentucky, for Presidential Reception and general support

- Deans Lester Goodchild and Jonathan Chu, Graduate College of Education, University of Massachusetts Boston, for Lunch with the Presidents and general support

- American Studies Program, DePaul University, for program printing and Lunch with the Presidents

HISTORY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY

ANNUAL MEETING

OMNI ORRINGTON HOTEL

EVANSTON, ILLINOIS

OCTOBER 30 – NOVEMBER 2, 2003

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2003

HES Board of Directors meeting, 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. ALUMNI ROOM

Registration, 1:00-5:00 EVANS CORRIDOR

THURSDAY, 1:30-3:00 P.M.

Planning for Twentieth-Century Higher Education – LAKE MICHIGAN ROOM

Chair: Amy E. Wells (University of New Orleans)

Gene M. Chintala (Tiffin University)

Robert Hutchins and the 1946-47 President’s Commission on Higher Education

Edward A.Gallagher (Independent Scholar)

Short-Term Military Needs or Long-Term Curricular Reform? The Impact of World War II on California Community Colleges

Sarah V. Barnes (Independent Scholar)

Voltaire for Veterans: General Education on Land-Grant College Campuses after World War II

Discussant: Katherine C. Reynolds (University of South Carolina)

Understanding the American Child: Research and Popular Knowledge – JOHN EVANS I

Chair/Discussant: Julia Grant (Michigan State University)

Jed Woodworth (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

Children in American Advice Books, 1820-1860

Blythe Hinitz (The College of New Jersey)

Chicago: Crucible of Early Childhood Teacher Education for the Midwest

Theresa Richardson (Ball State University)

The Influence of Chicago, the Social Sciences and Child Development Research: Pursuing a Science of Pedagogy, 1889-1939

Integrating “the Other” into American Education – MAJOR MULFORD ROOM

Chair: Carol Huang (Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville)

Phoebe C. Godfrey (Texas A & M International University)

The “Other White”: Mexican Americans and the Politics of Whiteness in the Desegregation of Texas Public Schools

Judith Kafka (University of California Berkeley)

“Condition of Control: School Discipline and Delinquency in Los Angeles,
1954 - 1960"

Robert L. Osgood (IUPUI)

Integration and Segregation in Special Education Before Brown v. Board: An Exploration of Thought and Practice

Discussant: Yoon Pak (University of Illinois)

Curricular Contestations in Education: Domestic and International Cases – JOHN EVANS II

Chair: Margaret Nash (University of California Riverside)

John D. Burton (DePaul University)

Gender, Class and the Founding of the Cambridge High School

Christine Mayer (Universitaet Hamburg)

Shaping the Modern Woman: Transformations in (Vocational) Education in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in Germany

Milton Gaither (Messiah College)

Faculty Psychology, Dorothy Sayers, and the Rebirth of Classical Education in Private Schools

Discussant: Nancy Beadie (University of Washington)

THURDAY, 3:30-5:00 P.M.

Curriculum Issues in Higher Education – LAKE MICHIGAN ROOM

Chair: Christine Ogren (University of Iowa)

Katherine C. Reynolds (University of South Carolina)

Strange Twists On the Way to Chicago: Democratic Intents at the Roots of the Great Books Movement

William N. Haarlow (Northwestern University)

To Secure Our Victory: The Liberal Arts Movement after World War II

Robert Wilson-Black (University of St. Francis)

One Nation, Under Theology: The Creation of Religion Departments during World War II at Elite Universities

Discussant: Marybeth Gasman (University of Pennsylvania)

Mixing Race and Reform in Twentieth-Century Schooling – JOHN EVANS I

Chair: Jayne Beilke (Ball State University)

Charles Dorn (Bowdoin College)

The Irony of Boomtown Schooling: Integrating the Public Schools of Richmond, California, during World War II

Amy E. Wells (University of New Orleans)

“Taking the Bus Home,” and Other Stories: The Interplay of Distance, Resistance, and Desegregation in Schooling a Parish Neighboring New Orleans

Barry M. Franklin (Utah State University)

Race, Restructuring, and Educational Reform: The Mayoral Takeover of the Detroit Public Schools

Discussant: Elizabeth Ihle (James Madison University)

The State of the Field, “From the Bottom Up:” The Next Generation’s View of American Educational History – JOHN EVANS II

Chair/Discussant: Nancy Beadie (University of Washington)

Karen Benjamin (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

History and Education: Relevance, Trends, and Scholarship

Heather Lewis (New York University)

Balancing Dualities in Educational History: A Graduate Student’s Perspective from Inside and Outside the Field

Sarah Bennison (New York University)

Re-thinking the “Mainstream”: Educational History and American History Revisited

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2003

Registration, 8:00-3:30 EVANS CORRIDOR

Book Exhibit, 8:30-4:00 ALUMNI ROOM

Tour of Frances Willard House 9:00-10:00 a.m. – meet in Omni Lobby

FRIDAY, 8:30-10:00 A.M.

Market and Legal Challenges in Twentieth-Century Higher Education – JOHN EVANS I

Chair: Ralph Kidder (University of Massachusetts Boston and Newbury College)

Susan R. Richardson (Pennsylvania State University)

Oil, Power, and Academics: The Divorce of the University of Texas and Texas A&M, 1923-1931

Peter Wallenstein (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

Brown v. Board of Education: Undergraduate Enrollment at the University of North Carolina, 1955

Fred W. Beuttler (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Envisioning an Urban University: President David Henry and the Chicago Campus of the University of Illinois

Discussant: Philo Hutcheson (Georgia State University)

Preparing Teachers: Programmatic Perspectives – JOHN EVANS II

Chair: Wayne Urban (Georgia State University)

Bethany L. Rogers (New York University & Teachers College, Columbia University)

“Wet-Behind-the-Ears ‘Do Gooders’” Need Not Apply: Professional Prerogatives and the National Teacher Corps

Karin Sconzert (Loyola University, Chicago) and Demetria Iazzetto (Urban Education Program – Associated Colleges of the Midwest)

Leading Urban Teacher Education: The Origins of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest Urban Education Program

Christina Collins (University of Pennsylvania)

Teaching "The Children of All the People": Schools of Education and Urban Schooling in Philadelphia, 1955-1975

Discussant: Barbara Beatty (Wellesley College)

FRIDAY, 10:30 A.M. - NOON

Tour of Frances Willard House, 10:30-11:30 a.m. – meet in Omni Lobby

Issues in Higher Education for Women: Domestic and International Influences – JOHN EVANS I

Chair: Linda M. Perkins (Claremont Graduate University)

Judith M.Walter (New York City College of Technology – CUNY)- WITHDRAWN

The British Educational Mission of 1918 and its Surprising Impact on International Education for Women

Erin Kaufman (University of Iowa)

Professional Legitimacy and the Expanding Public Sphere: Home Economics at Iowa State College, 1895-1920

Auden D. Thomas (Indiana University)

The Women's College Coalition: Reflecting Turbulent Times in the 1970's and 1980's

Discussant: Sarah V. Barnes (Independent Scholar)

Education and Political Uses - LAKE MICHIGAN ROOM

Chair: Margaret Smith Crocco (Teachers College, Columbia University)

David M. Ment (Independent Scholar)

Education, Nation Building, and Modernization after World War I: American Ideas for the Peace Conference

Steven D. Korenblat (Bryan Cave, LLP)

A School for Political Studies in Political Crisis: The Deutsche Hochschule fuer Politik and the Collapse of Weimar Democracy

Brian M. Puaca (University of North Carolina)

Learning Democracy: Political Education and Student Government in
West Berlin, 1945-1965

Discussant: Benita Blessing (Ohio University)

Needs and Opportunities in American Public School Library History – MAJOR MULFORD ROOM

Presenter: Wayne A. Wiegand (Florida State University)

Respondents: John L. Rury (University of Kansas)

Victoria-Maria MacDonald (Florida State University)

Michael Fultz (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

Health, Medicalization, and Education: An Uneasy Mix – JOHN EVANS II

Chair/Discussant: Theresa Richardson (Ball State University)

Stephen Woolworth (Pacific Lutheran University)

From the Outhouse to the Clinic: The Origins of Medical Authority in Public Education, Seattle, 1892-1916

Barbara Brenzel and Maeve Strucker (Wellesley College) – PAPER WITHDRAWN

The Treatment of the Feeble-Minded: To Educate, Train or Incarcerate?

Alan Stoskopf (Facing History and Ourselves and University of Massachusetts Boston)

Efficient Schools Make Healthy Minds: Eugenics and IQ Testing

FRIDAY, 12:00 P.M. – 1:30 P.M.

Lunch with the Presidents (for graduate students and new faculty only. Advance sign-up and tickets required) 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m. HERITAGE BALLROOM

HEQ Editorial Board luncheon (off-site)

FRIDAY, 1:30-3:30 P.M.

Aspects of the Progressive Project in Curriculum and Leadership – JOHN EVANS II

Chair: Karen Graves (Denison University)

Connie Goddard (Roosevelt University)

Teachers for Democracy: The Contemporary Significance of Ella Flagg Young’s Ideas about Preparing Teachers for Schools in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago

Richard S. Christen (University of Portland)

Worker Education and the Arts and Crafts: Two Early-Twentieth-Century Approaches

Miriam Heller Stern (Stanford University)

“A Home in its Highest Sense”: The Educational Project of the Settlement House

Discussant: Barry Franklin (Utah State University)

Influences on African American Education: Whose Decision-Making? - MAJOR MULFORD ROOM

Chair/Discussant: Adah Ward Randolph (Ohio University)

James P. Patterson (University of Iowa)

Faith in the Mission: Religion in the Lives and Work of Northern Teachers of the Freed People

Joan Malczewski (New York University)

The Jeanes Teachers and Educational Reform in North Carolina

Louis R. Hilton III (University of Michigan – Flint)

The Value of Education in Twentieth Century African-American Autobiography

Experts, Evangelists, and Outreach: Higher Education and the Service Mission – LAKE MICHIGAN ROOM

Chair: Adam Nelson (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

Marc VanOverbeke (University of Wisconin – Madison)

Connecting to the High Schools: The University of Wisconsin and its Accreditation Programs

Christie Hanzlik-Green (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

A University State or a State University?: The Social Science Expert and University Extension in Wisconsin, 1890-1915

Story Matkin-Rawn (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

“Afield with Ranger Mac”: School Radio during the Great Depression

Adam Laats (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

The Quiet Crusade: Moody Literature Mission, 1920-1940

Discussant: Roger Geiger (Pennsylvania State University)

Case Studies of Education in Michigan – JOHN EVANS II

Chair/Discussant: David F. Labaree (Stanford University)

Timothy R. Cain (University of Michigan)

Little Red Schoolhouses: Anti-Communism, Institutional Politics and Academic Freedom in the 1930s

Jenny DeMonte (University of Michigan)

Michigan’s 1970 “Parochaid” Referendum, and the 2000 Vote on School Vouchers: A Comparison of Two Votes on Public Funds for Nonpublic Schools

Anne-Lise Halvorsen (University of Michigan)

The Shaping of Elementary Social Studies Curriculum in Detroit, 1916-1940

Deborah L. Michaels (University of Michigan)

Perry Preschool Goes to Market: Chronicling Historic Variations in the High/Scope Curriculum and the Implications of Curriculum Variation on Expectations of Program Outcomes

Presidential Address, James C. Albisetti (University of Kentucky), 4:00-5:00 --"Another 'Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time?': Intelligence Testing and Coeducation"

HERITAGE BALLROOM

HES Business Meeting, 5:00-6:00 (all are welcome) HERITAGE BALLROOM

Presidential Reception, 6:30-7:30 HERITAGE FOYER

HES Banquet, 7:30-10:00 HERITAGE BALLROOM

Guest Speaker: James Block, DePaul University: “Always the Bridesmaid: Education in the American Story”

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2003

Registration, 8:00-12:00 noon – EVANS CORRIDOR

Book Exhibit, 8:30-5:00 – ALUMNI ROOM

SATURDAY, 8:30-10:00 A.M.

Educating Native Children and Adults: Whose Perspective? – JOHN EVANS I

Chair/Discussant: Eileen Tamura (University of Hawaii)

David Adams (Cleveland State University)

Beyond Bleakness: The Brighter Side of Indian Boarding Schools, 1870-1940

Brad Lookingbill (Columbia College of Missouri)

Richard Henry Pratt and the Education of Native American War Prisoners

Melanie D. Haimes-Bartolf and Samuel M. Craver (Virginia Commonwealth University)

First Person Perspectives: The Education of Monacan Children in Amherst County, Virginia, 1908-1965

Historical Challenges to Historically Black Colleges and Universities – JOHN EVANS II

Chair: Katrina Sanders (University of Iowa)

Carol F. Karpinski (Rutgers University)

H. Councill Trenholm: "Being In The Field of Education and Also Being A Negro, It Seems To Me To Be Tragic”

Joy Ann Williamson (Stanford University)

“Cancer College”: Tougaloo College and the Fight for Institutional Autonomy

Marybeth Gasman (University of Pennsylvania)

Controlling “Disaster Areas” : The Response of the United Negro College Fund and Its Member Colleges to Christopher Jencks' and David Riesman's 1967 Article "The American Negro College"

Discussant: Peter Wallenstein (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

The Interplay of Organizations and Education: National and International Perspectives – LAKE MICHIGAN ROOM

Chair: Sherman Dorn (University of South Florida)

Joseph Watras (University of Dayton)

The American Historical Association's Influence on the Social Studies, 1929-1941

Wayne J. Urban (Georgia State University)

Internationalizing Teacher Organizations: William H. Carr, the World Congress of the Organized Teaching Professions, and UNESCO

Philo Hutcheson (Georgia State University)

The First Line of Defense: Origins of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare

Discussant: Christine Woyshner (Temple University)

Federal Involvement in Florida Secondary Education, 1930-2000 – MAJOR MULFORD ROOM

Chair: Sevan Terzian (University of Florida)

Andrew Grunzke (University of Florida)

Rock and Roll High School: The Ride of the Underground Newspaper, 1968-1995

Regan Garner (University of Florida)

The International Baccalaureate at East Side High School, 1983-2000

Donald C. Boyd (University of Florida)

The New Space Race: A Historical Perspective on Space Utilization in Florida Public Schools, 1938-2000

Larry Smith (University of Florida)

Extending the Vision: WPA and NYA Activities in Florida

Discussant: Jeffrey Mirel (University of Michigan)

“FRIENDLY CRITIC” SESSIONS

SATURDAY, 10:15 – 11:00 A.M.

Anne E. Phillips (Rowan University) – JOHN EVANS I

A Study of the Defeat of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Philadelphia, 1955-1967

Friendly Critic: James Carl (Cleveland State University)

Tyler D. Kahdeman (DePaul University) – JOHN EVANS II

Factors Associated with Dropping Out of High School in 1950, 1960, and 1970

Friendly Critic: Stephen Provasnik (American Institutes for Research)

Joshua Garrison (Indiana University) – MAJOR MULFORD ROOM

G. Stanley Hall's Colonial Legacy: Adolescence, Anthropology, and the Postcolonial

Friendly Critic: Lester Goodchild (University of Massachusetts Boston)

SATURDAY, 11:15 A.M. – NOON

Brett V. Gadsden (Northwestern University) – JOHN EVANS I

“Judge and Company”: The Subordination of Popular Interests in Brown v. Board of Education

Friendly Critic: Jack Dougherty (Trinity College)

Maude Falcone (Syracuse University) – LAKE MICHIGAN ROOM

Militaristic Medicine, Handicapped Babies and War Orphans: Dr. Spock and the Limits of the Progressive Project

Friendly Critic: Julia Grant (Michigan State University)

BARNARD PRIZE WINNER – Jonna Perrillo (New York University) – MAJOR MULFORD ROOM

Beyond 'Progressive' Reform: Bodies, Discipline, and the Construction of the 'Professional Teacher' in the Interwar Years

Chair: Andrea Walton (Indiana University)

History of Education Quarterly: HES Membership Q & A (open to all) – JOHN EVANS II

Facilitator: Richard Altenbaugh, HEQ Editor

Robert Levin, Associate Editor

SATURDAY, 1:30-2:30 P.M.

State Perspectives on Public Schools: Recent Cases – JOHN EVANS I

Chair: Donald Warren (Indiana University)

Deanna L. Michael (University of South Florida, St. Petersburg)

Equity vs. Adequacy: A Comparison of Governor Ruben Askew's and Governor Jimmy Carter's Educational Reforms

Lawrence J. McAndrews (St. Norbert College)

Capital Ideas: Bill Clinton and Federal Aid to Public Schools

Discussant: Robert Hampel (University of Delaware)

Managing Literacy – LAKE MICHIGAN ROOM

Chair/Discussant: Milton Gaither (Messiah College) (to be confirmed)

Edward E. Gordon (Imperial Consulting Corporation)

“An Eternity Job”: Riding the Literacy Circuit on the Western Frontier

Frederick J. Augustyn, Jr. (Library of Congress)

Polish-American Positions Toward Literacy and Acculturation, 1890-1930: Professional and Popular Perspectives in Chicago

Educational Thinking for Early America – MAJOR MULFORD ROOM

Chair/Discussant: Keith Whitescarver (College of William and Mary)

Stephen Tomlinson and Douglas McKnight (University of Alabama)

Helvetius, Destutt de Tracy, and Thomas Jefferson: Education and the Government of the Mind

William Cahill (Edison Township, NJ, High School and Rutgers University)

Realist Education in Franklin's Academy of Philadelphia, 1751-1755: Evidence from the Academy's Tuition Book and Student Notebooks

The Education of African Americans in Florida Public Schools during Reconstruction: Politics and Perspectives – JOHN EVANS II

Chair: Sevan G. Terzian (University of Florida)

Erika K. Gubrium (University of Florida)

A Reconstruction Era School in Gainesville, Florida: Teacher Identity in the Face of Public Perceptions

Sheryl M. Howie (University of Florida)

The Impact of Florida Education Legislation on the American Missionary Association during Reconstruction

Discussant: Victoria-Maria MacDonald (Florida State University)

SATURDAY, 3:00-5:00 P.M.

Twentieth-Century Changes in the Relationship of Science and Education – LAKE MICHIGAN ROOM

Chair: Jana Nidiffer (University of Michigan)

John L. Rudolph (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

The Importance of Place: Chicago and the Origin of General Science, 1904-1919

Jane Robbins (University of Pennsylvania)

What They Were Thinking: Two Critical Debates on the Patenting of Funded Scientific Research in Universities, 1935 and 1937

Andrew Jewett (Yale University)

Curricular Themes as Research Programs: The Case of History of Science

Sevan G. Terzian (University of Florida)

Anticipating the Feminist Movement: “Early” Proponents of Science Education for High School Girls in the United States, 1955-1965

Discussant: Roger L. Geiger (Pennsylvania State University)

Community Organizing and Parent-Teacher Groups in the Twentieth Century – MAJOR MULFORD ROOM

Adah Ward Randolph (Ohio University)

“Since There Was No PTA”: Ethel Thompson Overby Working With and For Black Parents and Students in Richmond, Virginia, 1910-1958

Claudia J. Keenan (Emory and Henry College)

The Disaffection of White Protestant Parents: Bronxville, NY, Schools, 1930s

Kenneth Gold (The College of Staten Island – CUNY)

Community Organizing in Detroit in the 1960s

Christine Woyshner (Temple University)

National Trends in Community Organizing and Parent-Teacher Groups

Local Lessons: A Roundtable on the History of Desegregated Public Schools in Evanston, Illinois, 1960 to the Present – A Public Discussion – JOHN EVANS I

Jack Dougherty (Trinity College)

Davison Douglas (William and Mary School of Law)

Dolores Holmes (Evanston, IL; former Director of Family Focus)

Bennett Johnson (Evanston, IL; former President of Evanston NAACP)

Dan A. Lewis (Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University)

Thomas J. Mertz (University of Wisconsin – Madison; former Evanston public school student)

William Sampson (Public Policy Studies, DePaul University; former Evanston Board of Education)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003

SUNDAY, 8:30-10:00 A.M.

Expanding the Pool of Higher Education Faculties – JOHN EVANS I

Chair: Peter Wallenstein (Virginia Polytechnic and State University)

Margaret Smith Crocco (Teachers College, Columbia University)

Building Faculties for Black Higher Education, 1896-1954

Cally L.Waite (Teachers College, Columbia University)

Pushed Northward: Black Scholars Leaving the South

Ruby Heap (University of Ottawa)

Are Numbers Enough? Politicians, Engineers, and Feminists in the Promotion of Women in Faculties and Schools of Engineering in Canada, 1970-2000

Discussant: Mary Ann Dzuback (Washington University)

Integrating Catholics: Mainstream or Separatism? – JOHN EVANS II

Chair: David Tyack (Stanford University)

Stephan F. Brumberg (Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Bishop John Hughes: A Father of American Education

Hilary J. Moss (Brandeis University)

Catholics, Blacks, and the School Tax: The Kerney Bill and African American Education in Baltimore, 1852

Ann Marie Ryan (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Accreditation, Access and Legitimacy: The High School Visitor and Chicago's Catholic High Schools, 1915-1935

Discussant: John Rury (University of Kansas)

Understanding and Creating Historical Memory and its Uses in an Undergraduate Foundations of Education Course – LAKE MICHIGAN ROOM

Martha Kransdorf (University of Toledo)

Charles Carter (University of Toledo)

Mary Ellen Edwards (University of Toledo)

Lynne Hamer (University of Toledo)

Institutional Perspectives on Preparing Twentieth-Century African American Students – MAJOR MULFORD ROOM

Chair: Sieglinde Lim de Sanchez (University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign)

Melanie Carter (Clark Atlanta University)

“Hail, A.U.L.H.S! Noble and Strong”: An Historical Examination of the Atlanta University Laboratory High School, 1933-1942

Ann Meis Knupfer (Purdue University)

“Isolated Learning is Doubtful Learning”: The Case of Howalton School, An African-American Private School in Chicago, 1947-1960

Discussant: Jayne Beilke (Ball State University)

Continuities and Discontinuities in German Education from Pre-Reunification to the Present: Book Discussion of Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse – ALUMNI ROOM

Chair: Benita Blessing (Ohio University)

John Cornell (Butler University)

Catherine J. Plum (University of Wisconsin)

J. Henning Schluss (Humboldt Universitaet)

John Rodden (University of Texas at Austin)

SUNDAY, 10:30 A.M. - NOON

After College, What? To Be of Some Use: Southern Women, Class, and Higher Education – JOHN EVANS I

Chair/Discussant: Carolyn Terry Bashaw (LeMoyne College)

Robin O. Harris (Georgia College and State University)

To Be of Some Active Use in the World: Julia Flisch and Education as a Tool for Female Independence

Joan Marie Johnson (Northeastern Illinois University)

After College, What? for Southern Women Educated at Northern Colleges, 1875-1915

Teaching Brown: Pedagogical Challenges and Opportunities – JOHN EVANS II

Chair: Joy Ann Williamson (Stanford University)

Joy Ann Williamson (Stanford University)

Brown, Black, and Yellow: Desegregation in a Multi-Ethnic Context

Jack Dougherty (Trinity College)

Making Sense of Multiple Interpretations

Daniel Perlstein (University of California Berkeley)

Politics and Historical Imagination

Cally L. Waite (Teachers College, Columbia University)

The Challenge of Teaching Brown

Interrelationships of Religion and Nationalism – LAKE MICHIGAN ROOM

Chair: Stephan Brumberg (Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY)

Elizabeth K. Eder (University of Maryland)

“Training Up the Young in the Fear of God”: U.S. Missionary Women and Social Transformation in Meiji Japan

Jonathan Zimmerman (New York University)

Church, State, and Globe: American Missionaries and the “Wall of Separation,” 1900-1965

Katherine Kennedy (Agnes Scott College)

Religion and the Nazification of German Education

Discussant: Roberta Wollons (Indiana University Northwest)

A Teleological History? Socialist Ideology and East German Antifascism – ALUMNI ROOM

Chair/Discussant: Bernhard Streitweiser (Northwestern University)

John Rodden (University of Texas at Austin)

Lessons of the Progressive Past: History Textbooks in the GDR

Catherine Plum (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

From Antifascist Enthusiasts to Would-Be-Neofascists: Student Reception of Antifascist Traditionspflege in GDR Schools and Extracurricular Activities, 1961-1989

Cynthia Miller (University of Michigan) – PAPER WITHDRAWN

HISTORY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY

President: James C. Albisetti, University of Kentucky

Vice-President: Linda Eisenmann, University of Massachusetts Boston

Secretary/Treasurer: Robert Hampel, University of Delaware

Program Committee

Sarah Barnes (Independent Scholar)

Local Arrangements Coordinator

HISTORY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2003

Registration, 1:00-5:00 EVANS CORRIDOR

THURSDAY, 1:30-3:00 P.M.

Planning for Twentieth-Century Higher Education – LAKE MICHIGAN ROOM

Robert Hutchins and the 1946-47 President’s Commission on Higher Education

Understanding the American Child: Research and Popular Knowledge – JOHN EVANS I

Children in American Advice Books, 1820-1860

Chicago: Crucible of Early Childhood Teacher Education for the Midwest

Integrating “the Other” into American Education – MAJOR MULFORD ROOM

Curricular Contestations in Education: Domestic and International Cases – JOHN EVANS II

Gender, Class and the Founding of the Cambridge High School

Curriculum Issues in Higher Education – LAKE MICHIGAN ROOM

To Secure Our Victory: The Liberal Arts Movement after World War II

Mixing Race and Reform in Twentieth-Century Schooling – JOHN EVANS I

History and Education: Relevance, Trends, and Scholarship

Re-thinking the “Mainstream”: Educational History and American History Revisited

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2003

Registration, 8:00-3:30 EVANS CORRIDOR

Book Exhibit, 8:30-4:00 ALUMNI ROOM

Tour of Frances Willard House 9:00-10:00 a.m. – meet in Omni Lobby

Market and Legal Challenges in Twentieth-Century Higher Education – JOHN EVANS I

Preparing Teachers: Programmatic Perspectives – JOHN EVANS II

FRIDAY, 10:30 A.M. - NOON

Tour of Frances Willard House, 10:30-11:30 a.m. – meet in Omni Lobby

Issues in Higher Education for Women: Domestic and International Influences – JOHN EVANS I

The Women's College Coalition: Reflecting Turbulent Times in the 1970's and 1980's

Education and Political Uses - LAKE MICHIGAN ROOM

Needs and Opportunities in American Public School Library History – MAJOR MULFORD ROOM

Health, Medicalization, and Education: An Uneasy Mix – JOHN EVANS II

The Treatment of the Feeble-Minded: To Educate, Train or Incarcerate?

Aspects of the Progressive Project in Curriculum and Leadership – JOHN EVANS II

Worker Education and the Arts and Crafts: Two Early-Twentieth-Century Approaches

Influences on African American Education: Whose Decision-Making? - MAJOR MULFORD ROOM

The Jeanes Teachers and Educational Reform in North Carolina

The Value of Education in Twentieth Century African-American Autobiography

Experts, Evangelists, and Outreach: Higher Education and the Service Mission – LAKE MICHIGAN ROOM

“Afield with Ranger Mac”: School Radio during the Great Depression

The Quiet Crusade: Moody Literature Mission, 1920-1940

Case Studies of Education in Michigan – JOHN EVANS II

The Shaping of Elementary Social Studies Curriculum in Detroit, 1916-1940

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2003

Registration, 8:00-12:00 noon – EVANS CORRIDOR

Educating Native Children and Adults: Whose Perspective? – JOHN EVANS I

Beyond Bleakness: The Brighter Side of Indian Boarding Schools, 1870-1940

Richard Henry Pratt and the Education of Native American War Prisoners

“Cancer College”: Tougaloo College and the Fight for Institutional Autonomy

The First Line of Defense: Origins of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare

Federal Involvement in Florida Secondary Education, 1930-2000 – MAJOR MULFORD ROOM

Rock and Roll High School: The Ride of the Underground Newspaper, 1968-1995

The International Baccalaureate at East Side High School, 1983-2000

Extending the Vision: WPA and NYA Activities in Florida

Factors Associated with Dropping Out of High School in 1950, 1960, and 1970

G. Stanley Hall's Colonial Legacy: Adolescence, Anthropology, and the Postcolonial

SATURDAY, 11:15 A.M. – NOON

State Perspectives on Public Schools: Recent Cases – JOHN EVANS I

Capital Ideas: Bill Clinton and Federal Aid to Public Schools

Managing Literacy – LAKE MICHIGAN ROOM

“An Eternity Job”: Riding the Literacy Circuit on the Western Frontier

Educational Thinking for Early America – MAJOR MULFORD ROOM

Twentieth-Century Changes in the Relationship of Science and Education – LAKE MICHIGAN ROOM

The Importance of Place: Chicago and the Origin of General Science, 1904-1919

Curricular Themes as Research Programs: The Case of History of Science

Community Organizing and Parent-Teacher Groups in the Twentieth Century – MAJOR MULFORD ROOM

The Disaffection of White Protestant Parents: Bronxville, NY, Schools, 1930s

Community Organizing in Detroit in the 1960s

National Trends in Community Organizing and Parent-Teacher Groups

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2003

Expanding the Pool of Higher Education Faculties – JOHN EVANS I

Building Faculties for Black Higher Education, 1896-1954

Pushed Northward: Black Scholars Leaving the South

Integrating Catholics: Mainstream or Separatism? – JOHN EVANS II

Bishop John Hughes: A Father of American Education