Group of young women reading in library of normal school,
Washington, D.C. Library of Congress,
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Native American men and a boy posed outside of Carlisle Indian School.
LC-USZ62-124294

Education in rural school. Williams County, North Dakota.
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Questa, New Mexico. Spanish-American students in the grade school
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Veazy, Greene County, Georgia.
The one-teacher African American school, south of Greensboro
LC-USF34-046270-D

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Call for Nominations:  The 2021 Henry Barnard Prize The History of Education Society awards a prize of $500 biennially for the best graduate student essay in the history of education, broadly defined to cover a wide range of educational and cultural institutions...

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16 Feb

Call for Proposals!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️ @HistEdUSA 2021 will be in San Diego this year and any/all researchers, teachers, librarians, archivists, museum specialists, and others interested in the history of education are encouraged to submit! https://t.co/OnedDpPHGX

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11 Feb

Mic check. Appreciated the opportunity to talk with @ZinnEducation and @Brandgirl on the latest episode of their podcast —eRaced (https://t.co/Vilxu6LNxW). Check it out and let me know your thoughts. #blackat #BHM https://t.co/lYYXW1ynnb

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#Job Opening: Tenure-track position in Africana Studies (Department of Africana Studies) at California State University Northridge (@csunorthridge )-- https://t.co/uhnfvNqB5X @BlkPerspectives

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7 Feb

"Class of Melammedim Learning English", c. 1890. Photo by Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914) in @MuseumofCityNY. Do you know an earlier photo of an #adulteducation class? @John__Field @markfreeman1974 @AdultEd100 @HistEdSocUK @HistEdUSA @IJLEd @UIL @AEQjournal @SLPLearn @aontas @EPALE_EU

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Appreciating this piece on my academic brother @Dr_Flennaugh. I continue to admire all that he does to fight against discrimination as scholar, teacher, administrator, and activist. Grateful to have started my academic career with him. #BHM https://t.co/I4HgxXlROj

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2021 Barnard Prize Call for Nominations

Feb 3, 2021

Call for Nominations:  The 2021 Henry Barnard Prize The History of Education Society awards a prize of $500 biennially for the best graduate student essay in the history of education, broadly defined to cover a wide range of educational and cultural institutions...

LGBTQ+ Histories of Education Call

Jan 25, 2021

Inviting New Work in LGBTQ+ Histories of Education We invite scholars to submit new work in LGBTQ+ Histories of Education for a special issue of Historia y Memoria de la Educación (http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/HMe), the online journal of the Spanish Society for...

Pre-Conference Affinity Group Meetings for HES 2020

Sep 9, 2020

From Vice President Chris Span: HES Membership, I am so excited about the forthcoming virtual conference November 5-8.  Together, we will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the History of Education Society.  I look forward to meeting and greeting all of you. Very soon...

Bernard Bailyn Dies at 97

Aug 12, 2020

Bernard Bailyn, whose 1960 book Education in the Forming of American Society exerted powerful and lasting influence on the discipline of history of education and whose mentorship of several generations of graduate students continues to shape the field, died earlier...

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