Group of young women reading in library of normal school,
Washington, D.C. Library of Congress,
LC-USZ62-100288

Native American men and a boy posed outside of Carlisle Indian School.
LC-USZ62-124294

Education in rural school. Williams County, North Dakota.
LC-USF34-030766-D

Questa, New Mexico. Spanish-American students in the grade school
LC-DIG-fsa-8d25973

Veazy, Greene County, Georgia.
The one-teacher African American school, south of Greensboro
LC-USF34-046270-D

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2026 History of Education Society Prize (Deadline: May 31, 2026)

Feb 26, 2026

The History of Education Society awards a prize of $1000 biennially to the author of an article judged to be the most distinguished scholarly essay in educational history—broadly defined to cover a wide range of educational and cultural institutions inside and outside...

Claude Eggertsen Dissertation Award (Deadline: July 10)

Feb 25, 2026

The History of Education Society invites submissions for the 2025 Claude Eggertsen Dissertation Award. The prize has been awarded annually since 1981 to the dissertation judged to be most outstanding in the field of history of education. Dissertations may focus on the...

Call for Proposals: Campus Life and Death

Feb 17, 2026

Dr. Eric Platt is soliciting chapter abstract proposals for an edited volume tentatively titled Campus Life and Death: Memory, Reconciliation, and the Dead in Higher Education. See below for more info [pdf-embedder...

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