The United States government sought to foster peaceful and stable democracies in Europe
following the Second World War, especially in conquered enemy territories. This essay …

The First World War ended with the collapse of the Austro‐Hungarian, Russian, German and
Ottoman Empires. In planning for the peace negotiations the allied governments considered …

One of the leading historians of education in the United States here develops a powerful
interpretation of the uses of history in educational reform and of the relations among …

In the years between the conclusion of the Civil War and the start of the twentieth century,
the United States acquired the Alaskan Territory, Hawaii, Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the …

Abstract After the Civil War (1861–1865), the United States faced a problem of
“reconstruction” similar to that confronted by other nations at the time and familiar to the US …

This perception is at least narrow in understanding the Enlightenment. Apart from the fact
that Kant's text in itself is not impressively coherent, it represents only one and a rather late …

American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War examines how US educational
institutions during World War II responded to the dilemma of whether to serve as" weapons" …

The practice of educating has been extensively commented upon by philosophers and
individuals important in the intellectual history of Western thought. Rehearsing these …

These two books, part of the recent attempts to re-write the history of edu cation in this
country, both present critical interpretations of largely known material. Karier focuses his …

" This is an excellent text in the field of US educational history. The author does a great job of
linking past events to the current trends and debates in education. I am quite enthusiastic …