An analysis of the social changes and political debates that shaped 19th-century American high schools. It reveals what students studied and how they behaved, w

The growth of the American high school that occurred in the twentieth century is among the most remarkable educational, social, and cultural phenomena of the tw

American Educational History: School, Society, and the Common Good is an up-to-date, contemporary examination of historical trends that have helped shape school

“Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country.”— Howard Zinn James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, the bestselling, go

Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.