Education

This chart illustrates the distribution of college enrollment and high school completion among 18 and 19 year olds from the years 1967 to 2022. 

This article describes the job market for recent college graduates in 2009. He discusses the value of education in America and what employers look for in a prospective employee.

El Plan de Santa Bárbara was a 155-page document crafted by the Chicano Coordinating Council on Higher Education at the University of California, Santa Bárbara. It served as a blueprint for establishing and developing Chicana/o Studies programs across U.S. colleges and universities. It also laid…

A proposal was made to amend the constitution and eliminate affirmative action programs that gave advantageous treatments to groups or individuals based on their race, gender, color, ethnicity, or national origin for jobs, education, or contracting purposes. This ban led to a decline in Black…

The Second Morrill Act of 1890 was a pivotal piece of legislation addressing racial exclusion in higher education, particularly within the Land-grant Universities (LGUs) established under the original Morrill Act of 1862. Before this act, many people of color, especially Black students, were…

In Topeka, Kansas, in the 1950s, schools were segregated by race. Each day, Linda Brown and her sister had to walk through a dangerous railroad switchyard to get to the bus stop for the ride to their all-Black elementary school. There was a school closer to the Brown’s house, but it was only for…

<p>That splendid flower of New England— the town meeting—wilts under the scrutiny of a native son</p>

<p>Supporters of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School believed that complete absorption of the Indian into American society was best for everyone</p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">A bitter feud among the bones</span> </span></p>

<p>We have come a long way from the philosophy of the Enlightenment...a shift that represents a retreat rather than an advance, argues the noted historian.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> THE ALL-RECORDING LENS RECALLS A TIME WHEN PEDAGOGY STILL WAS PLEASANT</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> DRAWN FOR AMERICAN HERITAGE BY LITNESS</span> </p>

<p>Veblen’s ideas on the effect of wealth on behavior were penetrating, original and, to the dismay of his contemporaries, highly uninhibited. </p>

<p><span class="deck"> “Your body is a temple,” our ancestors told their pubescent youngsters. ‘Now go take a cold bath”</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The “Monkey Trial” brought two ideologies into a great conflict, and it was very, very hot</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">NO, SAY THREE AMERICAN HISTORIANS. BUT THE PATIENT IS AILING AND THEY THINK THEY KNOW WHY AND WHAT TO PRESCRIBE.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> HOW A FARSIGHTED QUAKER MERCHANT AND FOUR GREAT DOCTORS BROUGHT FORTH, WITH MADDENING SLOWNESS, ONE OF THE FINEST MEDICAL CENTERS IN THE WORLD</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> THE LIVING DREAM</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Why the most fascinating of subjects is made to seem the most boring—and what can be done about it</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Today’s city, for all its ills, is “cleaner, less crowded, safer, and more livable than its turn-of-the-century counterpart,” argues this eminent urban historian. Yet two new problems are potentially fatal.</span> … </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Nobody was murdered or maimed, but nobody backed down for twenty years in the struggle over school integration in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Who finally won?</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Americans first learned to read to save their souls, then to govern themselves. Now the need is not so clear.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> In founding Groton, Endicott Peabody was sure that muscular Christianity would protect<br />
boys from the perils of loaferism</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A stern but brilliant Yankee revolutionized American higher education while president of our oldest university</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The author recalls two generations of “Cliffie” life—hers and her mother’s—in the years when male and female education took place on opposite sides of the Cambridge Common and women were expected to wear hats in Harvard Square</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">One of America s truly great men—scientist, philosopher, and literary genius—forged his character in the throes of adversity</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> If he’d been the closest companion of the president of IBM, you might happen across his name in a privately printed memoir. But LeMoyne Billings was John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s best friend from Choate to the White House—and that makes him part of history.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> An Interview With Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Over any extended period of time, the state of historical thinking about the great national topics changes in both subtle and dramatic ways. New facts and interpretations are being debated, written about, and taught. To keep you informed, AMERICAN HERITAGE introduces the first of a series.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A gathering of little-known drawings from Columbia<br />
University’s Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library illuminates two centuries of American building</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">When many of our greatest authors were children, they were first published in the pages of <span class="typestyle"> St. Nicholas.</span></span></p>

<p>Fascinating legal cases such as <em>Hawkins v. McGee</em> are known to lawyers across the land, and to almost nobody else.</p>

<p><span class="deck">At a time when our civilization is trying to organize itself on scientific principles of mathematical probabilities, statistical modeling, and the like, is traditional narrative history of any real use? Yes, says a distinguished practitioner of the discipline; it can always help us. It might even save us.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">This is not a test. It’s the real thing.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">After a year at the University of Missouri studying American history, a Chinese professor tells what she discovered about us and how she imparts her new knowledge to the folks back home.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">On Harvard’s 350th anniversary, a distinguished alumnus salutes his proud and often-thorny alma mater.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">If the historians themselves are no longer interested in defining the structure of the American past, how can the citizenry understand its heritage? The author examines the disrepair in which the professors have left their subject.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A distinguished American poet recalls one of his more unusual jobs</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> You Asked for It</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">His speech was called “our intellectual Declaration of Independence.” Its theme was the universe itself; its hero, Man Thinking. Now, one hundred and seventy-five years later, a noted scholar sees Emerson’s great vision as both more beleaguered and more urgent than ever.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">That was the question an Oklahoma high school teacher sent out in a handwritten note to men and women who had been prominent movers or observers during the Vietnam War. Politicians, journalists, generals, and combat veterans answered him. Secretaries of Defense answered him. Presidents answered him. Taken together, the answers form a powerful and moving record of the national conscience.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">What seemed to be just another tempest in the teapot of academia has escalated into a matter of national values and politics. Who would have believed that the choice of which books Stanford University students must read would create so much tumult? And that the controversy goes back so far?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Since the birth of the nation, the public’s perception of the quality of public schools has swung from approval to dismay and back again. Here, an eminent historian traces the course of school reform and finds that neither conservative nor liberal movements ever fully achieve their aims, which may be just as well.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A novelist and historian takes us on a tour of the Academy at Annapolis, where American history encompasses the history of the world.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In the early 60s, it was going to revolutionize American education. By the early 70s, it had confounded a generation of schoolchildren. Today, it is virtually forgotten. But, as we head toward another round of educational reforms, we should recall why it went wrong.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A guide who has been taking it all in for 60 years leads us on a lively, intimate, and idiosyncratic ramble through quiet yards where students once argued about separating from the Crown, and to hidden carvings high on the Gothic towers that show scholars sleeping through class and getting drunk on beer.</span></p>