James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a
In Schooling in the Antebellum South, Sarah L. Hyde analyzes educational development in the Gulf South before the Civil War, not only revealing a thriving priva
Alarmed at the growing poverty, illiteracy, class strife, and vulnerability of women after the upheavals of Reconstruction, female activists in Georgia advocate
In an era defined by political polarization, both major U.S. parties have come to share a remarkably similar understanding of the education system as well as a
Winner of the Zócalo Public Square Book Prize Benjamin L. Hooks Award Finalist “An insightful, powerful, and moving book.” —Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of