Books in the History of Schools and Schooling series

The Shifting Landscape of the American School District offers a new perspective on the American school district.

Demonstrates how the educational exhibits functioned as critical transfer points for exchange of educational ideas and innovations between Europe, Asia, and United States. In this book, the author examines how many of the exhibits reflected a dominant Western hegemony and racist assumptions about the superiority of Western culture and education.

Lucy Maynard Salmon was a pioneer educator with a progressive spirit. Having earned a bachelor¿s and master¿s degree from the University of Michigan in 1876 and 1883, Salmon continued her studies under Bryn Mawr professor and future U.S. President, Woodrow Wilson. Thereafter, Salmon began her forty-year Vassar College career and earned a reputation as a nationally prominent historian, suffrage advocate, author, and teacher. She helped found the American Association of University Women, the American Association of University Professors, and the Middle States Council for the Social Studies. She was the only woman to serve on the American Historical Association¿s Committee of Seven and the first woman to be elected to its Executive Council. An advocate of the new social history, Salmon¿s teaching methods were novel at the time and continue to be relevant today. Indeed, Salmon advised students to «go to the sources».