Rethinking the history of American education / edited by William J. Reese and John L. Rury.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: an evolving and expanding field of study / William J. Reese and John L. Rury -- Literacy, common schools, and high schools in colonial and antebellum America / Gerald F. Moran and Maris A. Vinovskis -- All educational politics is local: new perspectives on black schooling in the post-bellum South / Jacqueline Jones -- "As is the teacher, so is the school": future directions in the historiography of African American teachers / Michael Fultz -- American public schooling and European immigrants in the early twentieth century: a post-revisionist synthesis / Michael R. Olneck -- The historiography of women's education in the United States / Margaret A. Nash -- Children in American history / N. Ray Hiner -- Sites, students, scholarship, and structures: the historiography of American higher education in the post-revisionist era / Christine A. Ogren -- Curriculum history and its revisionist legacy / Barry M. Franklin -- Bridging the gap between urban, suburban, and educational history / Jack Dougherty -- The federal role in American education: a historiographical essay / Adam R. Nelson -- Epilogue: new directions in the history of education / William J. Reese and John L. Rury.