Publication Date
In 2024 | 0 |
Since 2023 | 2 |
Since 2020 (last 5 years) | 2 |
Since 2015 (last 10 years) | 13 |
Since 2005 (last 20 years) | 24 |
Descriptor
Source
American Educational History… | 24 |
Author
Alcala, Angel | 1 |
Anderson, Jennifer Paul | 1 |
Barrett, T. Gregory | 1 |
Biggs, Douglas | 1 |
Burlbaw, Lynn M. | 1 |
Cousins, James P. | 1 |
Davis, Donna M. | 1 |
Garza, Karla A. | 1 |
Gorgosz, Jon | 1 |
Hardin, Emily | 1 |
Hengtgen, Kristen | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 24 |
Reports - Research | 24 |
Information Analyses | 1 |
Education Level
Postsecondary Education | 24 |
Higher Education | 23 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
Secondary Education | 1 |
Audience
Teachers | 1 |
Location
Texas | 2 |
China | 1 |
Connecticut | 1 |
Delaware | 1 |
District of Columbia | 1 |
Florida | 1 |
Indiana | 1 |
Iowa | 1 |
Japan | 1 |
Kansas | 1 |
Kentucky | 1 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Morrill Act 1862 | 1 |
Morrill Act 1890 | 1 |
National Defense Education Act | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Lauzon, Glenn P. – American Educational History Journal, 2023
This case study examines the efforts of the Michigan Agricultural College (Michigan State University, hereafter MAC) to promote agricultural science and agricultural education. It promoted both, simultaneously, by collaborating with farmers' organizations to conduct agricultural education (extension) through, most notably, institutes, bulletins,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Agricultural Education, Agriculture, Agricultural Colleges
Perrotta, Katherine A. – American Educational History Journal, 2023
Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan was a trailblazing New York City public school educator and pacifist. Hughan was a socialist, and she was among numerous teachers who faced investigations for anti-patriotic activities at the turn of the 20th-century, when teachers across the country faced intense scrutiny and legal challenges if they were suspected of…
Descriptors: Biographies, United States History, Academic Freedom, Educational History
Wheatle, Katherine I. E. – American Educational History Journal, 2019
Historical writings about the Morrill Land-Grant Acts are not free from promoting unbiased, dominant ideas about the laws' reach and intentions. The Morrill Acts were major legislation, but they did not signify the entitlement of every citizen; their successes for Black students, communities, and colleges were meager. This study makes common cause…
Descriptors: Race, Educational History, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
McIntush, Karen E.; Pierce, Robin; McIntush, Elizabeth; Alcala, Angel; Garza, Karla A.; Hardin, Emily; Lawson, Lindsey; Ramirez, Robyn; Torres, Salma; Waheed, Uzair; Yarbrough, Deshaun; Burlbaw, Lynn M. – American Educational History Journal, 2019
The combination of two technological tools, Microsoft Excel and ArcGIS, has proved powerful in organizing, categorizing, and expressing data visually in meaningful ways. The use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has found its way into historical research due to its interdisciplinary nature and usefulness. The goal of this paper is not to…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Educational History, Data Analysis, Geographic Information Systems
Hengtgen, Kristen – American Educational History Journal, 2017
In 1966, as the old county courthouse in Delaware County moved to a new building, there was no easy way to relocate the years of old documents and artifacts that had been collecting dust in the disorganized basement and attic since 1880. The decision was made. Thousands of documents, ledgers, and manuscripts from the founding of the county in 1827…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Laboratory Training, History Instruction, Local History
Anderson, Jennifer Paul; O'Brien, Thomas V. – American Educational History Journal, 2016
In the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, several states followed the lead of Joseph McCarthy and formed committees to investigate Americans considered to be potentially subversive within states' governments. Students and professors fell victim to the "lavender scare," as public universities forced them to make concessions to their…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Privacy, College Presidents, Educational History
Porwancher, Andrew – American Educational History Journal, 2016
For the better part of the twentieth century, student speakers at their graduations from Brown University greeted fellow seniors and guests with substantive, socially conscious addresses. Undergraduate orators used the opportunity to expound on fundamental social questions, frequently discussing politics, academia, human progress, and the…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Speeches, Graduation, College Graduates
Biggs, Douglas – American Educational History Journal, 2016
The six Land Grant colleges and universities across the upper Midwest (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota State, South Dakota State, and Iowa State) all faced unprecedented challenges in the 1890s. The economic depression brought on by the Panic of 1893 saw budget cutbacks and lean times, but the "McKinley Prosperity," combined…
Descriptors: School Policy, College Presidents, Land Grant Universities, Agricultural Colleges
Lozano, Jon M. – American Educational History Journal, 2016
Colleges and universities across the United States have, over the centuries of their existence, gradually developed the systems of governance that we see today. Typically, this has taken the form of a governing board comprised of individuals with some connection to the institution. Although major restructuring of institutional governance may seem…
Descriptors: Trustees, Governance, Governing Boards, Case Studies
Laubach, Maria; Smith, Joan K. – American Educational History Journal, 2016
Angie Debo, educator and historian, wrote thirteen scholarly books, which included material representative of the American Indian experience. In one of her later books, "A History of the Indians of the United States," first published in 1951, she wrote that the story of the American Indian shows a "remarkable record of survival ……
Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indian Culture, Historians, Mentors
Nienkamp, Paul – American Educational History Journal, 2016
Robert Henry Thurston is presented in this article. He provides one the most significant examples of professionalizing engineering through innovative education and promoting scientific education practices in the late nineteenth century. The son of a draftsmen and steam engine mechanic, Thurston spent his early years in Providence, Rhode Island.…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Engineering Education, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
Poch, Robert K. – American Educational History Journal, 2015
This article explores the complex contexts and relationships that enabled student civil rights advocates to emerge at Howard University in the 1930s and 1940s. Such histories are valuable given their realistic portrayal of the daily challenges, interpersonal collisions, collaborations, and organizational positioning that made some human rights…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Students, Civil Rights, Activism
Tsang, Tiffany Lee – American Educational History Journal, 2015
Histories of education in America often discuss how concerns over women's health influenced public opinion on women's participation in higher education in the late nineteenth century. However, these histories almost exclusively focus on literature produced by the medical community--literature claiming that rigorous academic study was detrimental…
Descriptors: Females, United States History, Higher Education, Public Opinion
Stacy, Michelle – American Educational History Journal, 2014
This article seeks to analyze the historical origins of the connection between social studies and coaching, which is grounded in the masculine discourse of history, social studies, and athletics. Further, this article explains how history, social studies, and athletics at the secondary school level were constructed as masculine through the…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Athletic Coaches, Secondary Education, History Instruction
Scales, T. Laine; Tang, Agnes – American Educational History Journal, 2014
On the eve of her birthday, August 14, 1904, the young Jewell Legett recorded in her diary that she had "been feeling so strange today … 20 years old! What an age it is! Just the time to be a girl and learn to live" (Legett 1904). Her summer vacation from the 1903-1904 term at Baylor University was spent with her parents and brothers in…
Descriptors: Profiles, Foreign Countries, Women Administrators, Females
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1 | 2