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History of Education Quarterly 55 (1) (2015)

The latest issue of History of Education Quarterly is available.

HES Presidential Address: The Future of the Study of Our Educational Past—Whither the History of Education? (pages 1–32)
James W. Fraser
Article first published online: 23 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12090

Desegregation, Minimum Competency Testing, and the Origins of Accountability: North Carolina and the Nation(pages 33–57)
Scott Baker
Article first published online: 23 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12091

Teaching Democracy: Folkways Records and Cold War Education (pages 58–81)
Rachel C. Donaldson
Article first published online: 23 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12092

An Officer and a Scholar: Nineteenth-Century West Point and the Invention of the Blackboard (pages 82–108)
Christopher J. Phillips
Article first published online: 23 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12093

Book Reviews
Vida L. Avery. Philanthropy in Black Higher Education: A Fateful Hour Creating the Atlanta University System. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 290 pp. Hardcover $95.00. (pages 109–111)
Noah D. Drezner
Article first published online: 23 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12094

Deirdre Clemente. Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 208 pp. Cloth $29.95. (pages 112–115)
Michael Hevel
Article first published online: 23 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12095

Dana Goldstein. The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession. New York: Doubleday, 2014. 349 pp. Cloth $26.95. (pages 116–118)
A. Scott Henderson
Article first published online: 23 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12096

Lucia McMahon. Mere Equals: The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 2012. 228 pp. Cloth $45.00. (pages 119–122)
Catherine Allgor
Article first published online: 23 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12097

Robert B. Townsend. History's Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880–1940. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 272 pp. Cloth $90.00. (pages 123–126)
Sarah M. Iler and Bruce A. Kimball
Article first published online: 23 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12098

Craig S. Wilder. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. 432 pp. E-book $13.99. (pages 127–130)
Derrick Robinson
Article first published online: 23 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12099

Call for Papers
Rethinking Regionalism in the History of Education: Perspectives from the North American West (pages 131–132)
Article first published online: 23 JAN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/hoeq.12110