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Christie Angleton – Journal of Children's Literature, 2024
The Stonewall Riots are pivotal in queer liberatory history, often heralded as the start of the modern queer rights movement. This analysis looks at two versions of the riots, and asks readers to consider not only the stories of Stonewall, but who is telling those stories, and why it matters.
Descriptors: Picture Books, Content Analysis, Violence, LGBTQ People
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Massingil, Ruth – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2023
Secret societies and fraternal orders came to America with the arrival of the colonists, bringing ideals that influenced the founding of the United States. As the country grew and prospered, so did fraternal organizations, which exerted political influence, provided mutual aid for health and security to its members, and were instrumental in the…
Descriptors: Clubs, Influences, United States History, Citizen Participation
Joan Lea Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative case study focuses on renaming an elementary school in Tulsa, Oklahoma from a Confederate namesake (Robert E. Lee elementary) to a name reflecting Indigenous roots of the Muskogee Creek Nation (Council Oak). The renaming took place during a national movement of removing Confederate symbols and names from public places. The…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Naming, Indigenous Populations, United States History
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Fife, Brian L. – American Educational History Journal, 2022
Although Asa Packer enjoyed much success in his life, both in terms of being an entrepreneur as well as a politician, not much is readily known about his politics and his views about government in general. By examining his life and various aspects of his career, this research effort is an attempt to highlight key events in his life to better…
Descriptors: Educational History, United States History, Politics, Administrators
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Schrum, Ethan – Peabody Journal of Education, 2023
In the 3 years prior to Harry Truman's establishment of the President's Commission on Higher Education in 1946, the Association of American Colleges (AAC), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and Harvard University all released reports on the relationship of general or liberal education to the political order. This historiographical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reports, Democracy, Political Influences
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John Saltmarsh; Timothy Eatman; Na'tisha Mills – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
A deeper understanding of how slavery and colonialism fundamentally shaped the system of higher education in the United States has led colleges and universities to reexamine their histories and acknowledge harms committed and the need for repair. Campuses are experimenting with how to address racial justice and healing for faculty, staff, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, African American History, Educational History, School Community Relationship
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, 2024
American colleges and universities are failing at civic education. Too many graduates are ignorant of basic facts about American history and institutions. According to its most recent report on what colleges and universities teach students, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) found that only 214 institutions out of 1,135 (about 19…
Descriptors: Civics, Higher Education, United States History, Government (Administrative Body)
Blake Stephen Hart – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation delves into the profound impact of the Second Great Awakening on American higher education and its enduring social consequences. Examining the period from the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, the research uncovers the core belief that drove the Awakening--that America and its citizens were chosen for a…
Descriptors: Educational History, United States History, Social Change, Religious Factors
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Suniti Sharma – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2024
This article examines the Asian diaspora experience from historical exclusion to the production of oppositional and alternative knowledges that count in education. The first section critically examines historical and contemporary discourses across disciplines on the construction of identity such as who is considered an Asian and Asian American,…
Descriptors: Educational History, Asians, Asian Americans, Ethnicity
Ridley, Linda L. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The value of business school pedagogy has received increased attention in recent years (Delgado and Stefancic, 1992; Giacalone and Wargo, 2009; Podolny, 2009; Grier & Poole, 2020; Prieto & Phipps, 2021). This qualitative study examined the ability of higher education business faculty to include chattel slavery in the history of American…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Slavery, United States History
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deGuzman, Jean-Paul R. Contreras – History Teacher, 2023
"Why do people hate history classes?" That is a common question that the author, like countless other history instructors, poses to his students on the first day of class. From a recent survey of the author's "Introduction to Asian American History" course, which the author has taught at the University of California, Los…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, United States History, Museums, History Instruction
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Potter, Lee Ann – Social Education, 2020
A classroom examination of the featured historical article announcing North Carolina's ratification of the Constitution can springboard into a lesson on federalism, the Bill of Rights, and the ratification process.
Descriptors: State History, Newspapers, History Instruction, Constitutional Law
Stein, Sharon – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022
Over the past several decades, higher education in the United States has been shaped by marketization and privatization. Efforts to critique these developments often rely on a contrast between a bleak present and a romanticized past. In "Unsettling the University," Sharon Stein offers a different entry point--one informed by decolonial…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Decolonization, Colonialism, Educational History
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Eric Magrane; Daniel Carter – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
Field study and field courses are integral to the discipline of geography. While there are many forms that a field course might take, in this paper we draw on two university-level field courses in the U.S. Southwest to propose a road trip pedagogy for field study. We reflect on the particular resonance of the road trip in the American West and how…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Field Trips, Undergraduate Students, Course Descriptions
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PresleyTaylor Shilling; Jeffrey M. Byford – Social Studies, 2024
Until the beginning of the 21st century, the Tulsa Race Massacre was omitted mainly from the social studies curriculum and state-mandated standards in the United States. However, the featured lesson provides a valuable springboard to explore the historical perspectives and injustices against the Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on May 31, 1921.…
Descriptors: United States History, African American History, Racism, Violence
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