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• Teaching -- History

• A History of Education: A Social Interpretation (second edition; New York: Ronald Press Co., c1959), by James Mulhern (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of Education: Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the Development and Spread of Western Civilization, by Ellwood P. Cubberley (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Western Education (London: A. and C. Black, 1921), by William Boyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Short History of Education (second edition; London: Ralph Holland and Co., 1904), by George Benson Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Comenius and the Beginnings of Educational Reform (London: William Heinemann, 1900), by W. S. Monroe (PDF files at Roehampton)

• Sketch of the Life of Mr. Lewis Charlton, and Reminiscences of Slavery (Portland, ME: Daily Press Print, ca. 1870), by Lewis Charlton, ed. by Edward Everett Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten (New York: Dryden Press, c1953), by Charlotte L. Forten, ed. by Ray Allen Billington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery (New York and London: New York University Press, c2008), by Mary Niall Mitchell (PDF files with commentary at JSTOR)

• War Stories and School-Day Incidents for the Children, by B. M. Zettler (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Froebel and Education by Self-Activity (London: William Heinemann, 1893), by H. Courthope Bowen (PDF files at Roehampton)

• My Schools and Schoolmasters: or, The Story of My Education (Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell, 1889), by Hugh Miller (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• My Schools and Schoolmasters: or, The Story of My Education (Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay, and Mitchell, 1907), by Hugh Miller, ed. by W. M. Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• American Education: Its Principles and Elements, by Edward Deering Mansfield (page images at MOA)

• Aux Origines de l'Identité Franco-Ontarien: Éducation, Culture, Économie (in French; Ottawa: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 1993), by Chad Gaffield, trans. by Gilles Hénault, contrib. by Lise Demers (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• A Slaveholder's Daughter, by Belle Kearney (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Remembering School Days (Telling Our Stories v. 5; Sherman, TX: Big Barn Press, 2005), ed. by Jerry Bryan Lincecum and Peggy A. Redshaw (page images at Portal to Texas History)

• A History of the Case Study: Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature (Manchester: Manchester University Press, c2017), by Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi, and Alison Lewis (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• A Framework and Principles for International Comparative Studies in Education (1990), ed. by Norman M. Bradburn and Dorothy M. Gifford (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-Income Countries (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), ed. by Daniel A. Wagner, Nathan M. Castillo, and Suzanne Grant Lewis (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Learning at Not-School: A Review of Study, Theory, and Advocacy for Education in Non-Formal Settings (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2013), by Julian Sefton-Green (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Doing Comparative Education: Three Decades of Collaboration, by Harold J. Noah and Max A. Eckstein (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Gail Benjamin (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Seven Liberal Arts: A Study in Mediaeval Culture (Columbia University Teachers College Contributions to Education #11, second printing; 1919), by Paul Abelson
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Rebirth, Reform, And Resilience: Universities In Transition, 1300-1700 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by James M. Kittelson and Pamela J. Transue (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Rise of Universities (1923), by Charles Homer Haskins (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• The Education of Women During The Renaissance (dissertation; Washington: National Capital Press, 1916), by Mary Agnes Cannon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lost Tools of Learning, by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML with commentary at gbt.org)

• Medieval Education (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), ed. by Ronald B. Begley and Joseph W. Koterski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Underground History of American Education (2003), by John Taylor Gatto (HTML at johntaylorgatto.com)

• Ninety Years of Education in California, 1846-1936: A Presentation of Educational Movements and Their Outcome in Education Today (Berkeley, CA: Sather Gate Book Shop, c1937), by William Warren Ferrier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eighty Years' Progress of British North America (Toronto: L. Stebbins, 1863), by Henry Youle Hind (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Child and His Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England (London: W. Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1891), by Mrs. E. M. Field (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ludus Literarius, or, The Grammar Schoole (Liverpool: The University Press; London: Constable and Co., 1917), by John Brinsley, ed. by E. T. Campagnac (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ludus Literarius, or, The Grammar Schoole: Shewing How to Proceede from the First Entrance into Learning, to the Highest Perfection Required in the Grammar Schooles, with Ease, Certainty and Delight Both to Masters and Schollars, Onely According to Our Common Grammar, and Ordinary Classical Authours (London: Printed for T. Man, 1612), by John Brinsley (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Underground History of American Education (2003), by John Taylor Gatto (HTML at johntaylorgatto.com)

• Histoire Critique des Doctrines de l'Éducation en France Depuis le Seizième Siècle (2 volumes, in French; Paris: Hachette et cie, 1879), by Gabriel Compayré (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Short History of Education (second edition; London: Ralph Holland and Co., 1904), by George Benson Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Contribution of the Society of Friends to Education in Indiana (Indiana Historical Society Publications v13 #2; 1939), by Ethel Hittle McDaniel (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2017), ed. by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The Gates Open Slowly: A History of Education in Kentucky (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1949), by Frank LeRond McVey (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Education in Kentucky (published as Bulletin of the KY Dept. of Education v. 7 #4, 1914), ed. by Barksdale Hamlett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• History of Freeborn County: Including Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, and Outline History of the State of Minnesota, by Rev. Edward D. Neill; also, Sioux Massacre of 1862, and State Education by Charles S. Bryant (Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Co., 1882), contrib. by Edward D. Neill and Charles S. Bryant (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937), by Guion Griffis Johnson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers (New York: R. Carter, 1846), by William Henry Foote
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Education and Philosophical Thought (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, c1962), by Kingsley Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Underground History of American Education (2003), by John Taylor Gatto (HTML at johntaylorgatto.com)
• Yesterday's Schools: A Looking Glass for Teachers of Today (Watkins Glen, NY: Century House, c1962), by Ruth S. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Origins and Development of Elementary-School Science (Columbia doctoral dissertation; Chicago et al.: Scott, Foresman and Co., c1941), by Orra Ervin Underhill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Memoirs of Mary D. Bradford, by Mary Davison Bradford (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

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