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.
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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
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Alison Prentice, In Memoriam

Jul 19, 2021

Professor Alison Prentice died on June 25 in Victoria, BC. A longstanding professor of history of education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto, Prentice wrote extensively on the history of education and gender in Canada and...

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...

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...

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