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History of Education Quarterly 55(2)(May 2015)

The latest issue of History of Education Quarterly is available.

Articles

Trouble in Suburbia: Localism, Schools and Conflict in Postwar Johnson County, Kansas (pages 133–163)

John L. Rury

Article first published online: 24 APR 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12111

“Democratizing” Fundraising at Elite Universities: The Discursive Legitimation of Mass Giving at Yale and Harvard, 1890–1920 (pages 164–189)

Bruce A. Kimball

Article first published online: 24 APR 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12112

“The Penny Lunch Has Spread Faster than the Measles”: Children's Health and the Debate over School Lunches in New York City, 1908–1930 (pages 190–217)

A. R. Ruis

Article first published online: 24 APR 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12113

“A War of Ideas”: The Rise of Conservative Teachers in Wartime New York City, 1938–1946 (pages 218–243)

Zoë Burkholder

Article first published online: 24 APR 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12114

Book Review

Jamie Cohen-Cole. The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 397 pp. Cloth $45.00. (pages 244–247)

Ethan Schrum

Article first published online: 24 APR 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12115

Essay Review

Regional Pride and Prejudice in Programs and Policies (pages 248–253)

John R. Thelin

Article first published online: 24 APR 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12116

Book Reviews

Richard A. Meckel. Classrooms and Clinics: Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870–1930. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013. 272 pp. Paper $29.95. (pages 254–257)

Deborah Shine Valentine

Article first published online: 24 APR 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12117

Lisa K. Neuman. Indian Play: Indigenous Identities at Bacone College. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. 400 pp. Hardcover $50.00. (pages 258–261)

Suzanne Reilly

Article first published online: 24 APR 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12118

Emily E. Straus. Death of a Suburban Dream: Race and Schools in Compton, California. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 328 pp. Cloth $55.00. (pages 262–265)

Sherman Dorn

Article first published online: 24 APR 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12119

Margaret Sumner. Collegiate Republic: Cultivating an Ideal Society in Early America. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2014. 272 pp. Cloth $45.00. (pages 266–269)

Catherine Kerrison

Article first published online: 24 APR 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12120

John R. Thelin. Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 384 pp. Paper $29.95. (pages 270–271)

Jana Nidiffer

Article first published online: 24 APR 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12121