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• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Civil Rights (Washington, DC: Eisenhower World Affairs Institute, 2000), by Terrence J. Roberts and Rocco C. Siciliano, contrib. by Michael S. Mayer (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Schools Into Fields and Factories: Anarchists, the Guomindang, and the National Labor University in Shanghai, 1927-1932 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), by Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik (page images at HathiTrust)

• Schools Into Fields and Factories: Anarchists, the Guomindang, and the National Labor University in Shanghai, 1927-1932 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), by Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik (page images at HathiTrust)

• Discrimination and Intolerance in Iran's Textbooks (2008), by Saeed Paivandi (HTML at unhcr.org)

• Discrimination and Intolerance in Iran's Textbooks (2008), by Saeed Paivandi (HTML at unhcr.org)

• Discrimination and Intolerance in Iran's Textbooks (2008), by Saeed Paivandi (HTML at unhcr.org)

• The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907-81 (second edition; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), by Jeffrey Mirel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Change and Continuity in Twentieth-Century America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1964), ed. by John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner, and Everett Walters (PDF at Ohio State)
• The War and its Results: An Address Delivered at a Grange Meeting and Patriotic Rally Held at Thompson, Windham County, Connecticut, August 9, 1918 (ca. 1918?), by Isaac N. Mills (page images here at Penn)
• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Forum and Century (partial serial archives)

• Televangelism: Power and Politics on God's Frontier (based on the 1988 edition), by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Anson Shupe (HTML at Virginia)
• Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Stephen M. Feldman (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• The Betrayal of the Church: Apostasy and Renewal in the Mainline Denominations (1986), by Edmund W. Robb and Julia Robb (HTML at cmpage.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.