Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America

Contributors

Contributors  .  is an assistant professor of history and coordinator of the American studies major at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. His current project is tentatively titled “What Would Frank Merriwell Do? Middle-Class Readers, the Business of Popular Literature, and the Progressive Era Roots of All-American Boyhood.”   is an independent teacher-scholar. He holds two doctorate degrees, a JD and a PhD in modern history and literature, and an MBA and an MA in book history in America. As a cultural historian he teaches and writes in the fields of African, African American, and American history and literature . His current project is tentatively titled “In Search of the Grail: The Origins and Meaning of Murray’s Encyclopedia of the Colored Race throughout the World.”  .  is the cofounder and past director of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America. Although recently retired from the Wisconsin Historical Society, he continues to teach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication and is the author and editor of several articles and volumes related to print culture.   is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Library and Information Studies. He is the author of Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology , and Geography, 1850–1950 (Routledge, 2002) and Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television ( Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).   is an associate professor of English and women’s and gender studies at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. She teaches composition 223 courses as well as courses on the rhetorical practices of women and girls. She is currently completing a manuscript on working-class women’s opportunities for rhetorical education from the 1840s through the 1930s.    is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880–1930 (University of Illinois Press, 2003).   is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign . Her research interests include the history of children’s librarianship , women’s contributions to librarianship, and new forms of traditional storytelling in libraries. Her work has been published in the journals Book History; Library Quarterly; Storytelling, Self, Society, and others.  .  is an associate professor in the Departments of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872– 1964 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2001) and The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston’s Public Schools, 1950–1985 (University of Chicago Press, 2005). He is currently working on a history of nationalism and internationalism in the American research university.   is Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies at Northwestern University and most recently the author of Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them (Princeton University Press, 2005).  .  is a professor in the Departments of Curriculum and Instruction and History of Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is author of Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) and is currently writing a book on classroom portrayals of scientific epistemology since the late nineteenth century.  .  is the Dibner Fellow in the History of Science at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. His research focuses on the historical intersections of science, religion, and education. He also worked as an editor of mathematics textbooks for the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project from 2005 to 2007. 224 Contributors   teaches in the English department and is Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Pennsylvania . She is currently completing a book on literacy and public policy during the New Deal. Contributors 225 ...