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Alison Prentice, In Memoriam
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
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
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...
History and Policy Conversation with Larry Cuban, Oct. 8
Pre-Conference Affinity Group Meetings for HES 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
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...
David G. Garcia Lecture, Aug 7, 12-2
Berkowitz Fellowship in History of Education
Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor of the history of education in Penn GSE’s Literacy, Culture, and International Education division, has been named the Judy & Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education. Considered one of the foremost education historians today,...
Critically Examining Race Zoom Dialogue, July 24, 11 AM – 12 PM
2020 HES and SHCY Collaborative Conference- Call for Proposals
November 5-8, 2020 Please submit proposals by June 1, 2020. Virtual Conference The History of Education Society, in collaboration with the Society for the History of Children and Youth, will be held VIRTUALLY because of COVID-19. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: NEW SUBMISSION...