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The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The editors of AEHJ encourage communication between scholars from numerous disciplines, nationalities, institutions, and backgrounds. Authors come from a variety of disciplines including political science, curriculum, history, philosophy, teacher education, and educational leadership. Acceptance for publication in AEHJ requires that each author present a well-articulated argument that deals substantively with questions of educational history.
Volume 36, Number 1
Editor's Introduction; J. Wesley Null
Special Section: The Impact of Sputnik on American Education.
Chapter 1. ‘The Teenage Terror in the Schools’: Adult Fantasies, American Youth, and Classroom Scare Films During the Cold War; Joshua Garrison
Chapter 2. A Right Turn on the Left Coast: Max Rafferty as California State Superintendent of Public Instruction 1963–1971; Mark Groen
Chapter 3. A Resuscitation of Gifted Education; Jennifer L. Jolly
Chapter 4. Attacking Communists as Commissioner: The Role of Earl J. McGrath in the Red Scare of the 1950s; James B. Rodgers and J. Wesley Null
Chapter 5. Transforming the American Educational Identity After Sputnik; Kathleen Anderson Steeves, Philip Evan Bernhardt, James P. Burns and Michele K. Lombard
Chapter 6. The Dark Ages Haven't Ended Yet: Kurt Vonnegut and the Cold War; Paul J. Ramsey
Chapter 7. Women and Power in Schools, 1957–1963; June Overton Hyndman
Chapter 8. Discretion Over Valor: The AAUP During the McCarthy Years; Stephen Aby
Chapter 9. Private Higher Education in a Cold War World: Central America; James J. Harrington
Chapter 10. Building a Pipeline to College: A Study of the Rockefeller-Funded ‘A Better Chance’ Program, 1963–1969; Andrea Walton
General Essays: Curriculum, Teaching, and Teacher Education.
Chapter 11. A ‘Model School,’ Alabama State College Laboratory High School, 1920–1969: A Study of African Americans’ Dedication to Educational Excellence During Segregation; Sharon Pierson
Chapter 12. L. Thorndike or Edward Brooks?: A Comparison of Their Views on Mathematics Curriculum and Teaching; Susan Cooper-Twamley and J. Wesley Null
Chapter 13. Teachers' Lyceums in Early Nineteenth-Century America; Mindy Spearman
Chapter 14. Why Men Left: Reconsidering the Feminization of Teaching in the Nineteenth Century; Sarah E. Montgomery
Volume 36, Number 2
Editor's Introduction; J. Wesley Null
Chapter 1. Struggle for the Soul of Felix Adler; Jared R. Stallones
Chapter 2. Dangers of Virtue Revisited: The Missouri Anomaly, 1865–1915; Frances A. Karanovich and Linda C. Morice
Chapter 3. An Early Start: WPA Emergency Nursery Schools in Texas, 1934–1943; Lynn M. Burlbaw
Chapter 4. An Examination of Latent Threads and Themes in *The Catalyst* (1969–1971); Christina Blasingame, Dee Brown, Lee S. Duemer, Birgit Green and Belinda Richardson
Chapter 5. Meeting the Needs of Texas School Children: The Texas Minimum Foundation School Program; Deborah L. Morowski
Chapter 6. Has the Texas Revolution Changed?: A Study of U.S. History Textbooks from 1897–2003; Connee Duran and J. Wesley Null
Chapter 7. Institutionalized Hypocrisy: The Myth of Intercollegiate Athletics; Ronald D. Flowers
Chapter 8. The NEA's Early Conflict Over Educational Freedom; Timothy Reese Cain
Chapter 9. White Involvement in the Civil Rights Movement: Motivation and Sacrifices; J. Spencer Clark
Chapter 10. Military Drill in the Service of American Hegemony Over Hawai‘i; C. Kalani Beyer
Chapter 11. You Can Run, But You Can't Hide: The Intersection of Race and Class in Two Kansas City Schools, 1954–1974; Shirley Marie McCarther, Loyce Caruthers and Donna Davis
Chapter 12. Choctaw Leadership in Oklahoma: The Allen Wright Family and Education in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Grayson Noley, Joan K. Smith, Courtney Vaughn and Dana Cesar
Chapter 13. American Indian Organizational Education in Chicago: The Community Board Training Project, 1979–1989; John J. Laukaitis