The American State Normal School is the first comprehensive history of the state normal schools in the United States. Although nearly two-hundred state colleges

Everyone was in for a surprise in 1909 when New Mexico declared open the Spanish American Normal School at El Rito. The school had been founded to train teacher

This volume presents new perspectives on the history of higher education for women in the United States. By introducing new voices and viewpoints into the liter

James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a