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• 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 Western Education (London: A. and C. Black, 1921), by William Boyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• 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)

• 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)

• The Education and Employment of Women, by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (HTML at Indiana)

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

• Education and the State, by John Bascom (page images at MOA)

• The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy (New York: H. Lee and Co., 1878), by Henry Ossian Flipper
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy, by Henry Ossian Flipper (Gutenberg text)

• Francis Wayland Parker: An Interpretive Biography (Los Angeles: I. Deach, 1934), by Ida Cassa Heffron (page images at HathiTrust)

• Education of Woman, by Thomas Holmes (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 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 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)

• 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 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
• 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)

• 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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