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• History of education in the United States

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Education of Woman, by Thomas Holmes (page images at MOA)

• The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail (Ravenna, OH: Conscience Press, c1999), by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt (PDF with commentary at deliberatedumbingdown.com)

• Public School Desegregation in the United States, 1968-1980 (Washington: Joint Center for Political Studies, 1983), by Gary Orfield (PDF with commentary at UCLA)

• The National PTA, Race, and Civic Engagement, 1897-1970 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by Christine A. Woyshner (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2011), by Jonathan B. Krasner
  • PDF with commentary at Brandeis
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910-1965 (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2010), ed. by Carol K. Ingall (PDF at Brandeis)

• The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910-1965 (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2010), ed. by Carol K. Ingall (PDF at Brandeis)

• Sisterhood and Solidarity: Workers' Education for Women, 1914-1984 (originally published 1984; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), ed. by Joyce L. Kornbluh and Mary E. Frederickson, contrib. by Dorothy Sue Cobble (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Mixed-Gender Basic Training: The U.S. Army Experience, 1973-2004 (Fort Monroe, VA: U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, 2008), by Anne W. Chapman (PDF at army.mil)

• Schoolbook Nation: Conflicts Over American History Textbooks From the Civil War to the Present (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004), by Joseph Moreau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds: Universities, Leadership, and the Development of the American State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Mark R. Nemec (page images at HathiTrust)

• Edward Charles Elliott, Educator (Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Studies, c1970), by Frank K. Burrin (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Training for Mountain and Winter Warfare (1946), by Thomas P. Govan (HTML at US Army CMH)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• Story of a Bill: Legalizing Homeschooling in Pennsylvania, by Howard Richman (HTML at pahomeschoolers.com)

• Story of a Bill: Legalizing Homeschooling in Pennsylvania, by Howard Richman (HTML at pahomeschoolers.com)

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

• The National PTA, Race, and Civic Engagement, 1897-1970 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by Christine A. Woyshner (PDF at Ohio State)

• Minding the Time, 1492-1992: Jesuit Education and Issues in American Culture (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1992), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)

• Minding the Time, 1492-1992: Jesuit Education and Issues in American Culture (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1992), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)
• Splendor and Wonder: Jesuit Character, Georgetown Spirit, and Liberal Education (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1988), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Schools in Crisis: Training for Success of Failure? (electronic edition; Houston: Advance Publishins, 2009), by Carl Sommer (PDF files at advancepublishing.com)
• USA Education in Brief (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2008), ed. by Raphael Calis and Anita N. Green (PDF at state.gov)
• A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform (1983), by National Commission on Excellence in Education (HTML at ed.gov)
• Communist-Socialist Propaganda in American Schools: A Documented Study of the Role National Education Association is Taking in the Indoctrination of the Youth of Our Country With the Ideology of Communism-Socialism (fourth printing; Boston: Meador Pub. Co., 1958), by Verne Paul Kaub (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Learning Together: Israeli Innovations in Education That Could Benefit Americans (c1995), by A. Harry Passow, ed. by Mitchell Geoffrey Bard (HTML at Jewish Virtual Library)
• The Goslings: A Study of the American Schools (Pasadena, CA: The author, c1924), by Upton Sinclair, illust. by Art Young
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Educational Facilities in the United States for South African Students (New York: Institute of International Education, 1921), by Federation of South African Students in America
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Educational Guide for Syrian Students in the United States (New York: Syrian-American Press, 1921), by Philip K. Hitti
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Deschooling Society, by Ivan Illich (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Our Schools and Our Future: Are We Still at Risk?, ed. by Paul E. Peterson (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)
• A Primer on America's Schools, ed. by Terry M. Moe (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)
• A Statement of the Theory of Education in the United States of America, by United States Office of Education (page images at MOA)
• Taking a Stand on Education, by Helen P. Rogers (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Zaboty o Prosvieshchenii v Soedinennykh Shtatakh; Kak Russkie Immigranty Mogut Ispolzovat Amerikanskuiu Sistemu Obrazovaniia (Russian translation of Education in the United States, with a preface and some English commentary; New York: Foreign Language Information Service, American Red Cross, 1920), by William F. Russell, contrib. by P. P. Claxton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Labor and Education: Our Greatest Resource; Don't Sell Them Short (CIO publication #99; 1944), by Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dare the School Build a New Social Order? (New York: The John Day Co., c1932), by George S. Counts (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Washington, Patron of Learning (New York and London: The Century Co., c1932), by Leonard Clinton Helderman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Goose-Step: A Study of American Education (Pasadena, CA: The author, c1923), by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Education Demanded by the People of the U. States, by Francis Wayland (page images at MOA)
• Latin and Greek in American Education, With Symposia on the Value of Humanistic Studies (New York and London: Macmillan, 1911), ed. by Francis W. Kelsey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Means and Ends of Universal Education, by Ira Mayhew (page images at MOA)
• The Revival of Education, by Samuel J. May (page images at MOA)
• School Figures: The Data behind the Debate, by Hanna Skandera and Richard Sousa (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)

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