2021 Barnard Prize Call for Nominations

Feb 3, 2021 | Featured Articles, News

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 | Featured Articles, News

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...

Pre-Conference Affinity Group Meetings for HES 2020

Sep 9, 2020 | News

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....

Bernard Bailyn Dies at 97

Aug 12, 2020 | Blog, Featured Articles, News

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...