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Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Education:
History of Education Resources
The understanding of the particular history of a program, a district's decision pattern, or a country's education
mandates is a part of the preparation for any educator. Both print and websites are highlighted in this selective
listing.
RU Libraries = Available at the specified Rutgers University Library
RU Libraries-Specific = Available to Rutgers students, faculty, and staff.
WWW = World Wide Web resource, available to all. URLs are included for convenience.
RU Libraries
- Education Index, 1932- .
- Long-established, major index to educational publications in English. Periodicals, yearbooks and monographs are included as is a listing of citations to book reviews. Search Tips: This is one index that can be used to obtain a historical perspective on a topic. Simply use the same search term over a number of selected years.
- ALEXANDER REF. AI3.E23 [on Index Table]
RU Libraries-Specific
- America: History and Life
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: the New York Times
- Provides the full image of articles published in the New York Times from its first issue in 1851. It is
searchable by keyword, subject, author, and article title. It includes illustrations and advertisements. The title changed from the New York Daily
Times to the New York Times in 1858.
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- Dates covered September 18, 1851 to two years prior to the current year. [from database description]
RU Libraries-Related Resources
- CountryWatch
- A database of country overviews and extensive Country Reviews (in .pdf format, downloadable) can be used
to place education information in context.
WWW Resources
- National Center for History in the Schools
- URL: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/
- History of Education by Country
- URL: http://www.socsci.kun.nl/ped/whp/histeduc/links10b.html#bri
- Bibliography of the History of American Education
- This extensive bibliography by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor
emeritus Jurgen Herbst covers the historical literature of American
education. It is organized in four sections: General Works, The Colonial
Period, From Revolution to Reconstruction, and America in the Urban Age.
Each section is subdivided into thematic lists of scholarly, historical
journals, and government reports. Topics include
Government, The Courts, and Education; Racial Minorities and Education; The
Education of Women; Americanization: The Response to Immigration; Youth, the
Arts, and Psychoanalysis; Nineteenth Century Pedagogy; and Teachers and
Teaching.
- URL: http://www.zzbw.uni-hannover.de/HerbstStart.htm
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education's Immigrant Education Pathway
- URL: http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/pathways/immigrant_issues/
- Electronic New Jersey
- Designed for the in-depth study of New Jersey history. The six topical modules currently available were chosen after careful review of a range of sources available in the
Special Collections and University Archives of the Rutgers University
Libraries, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
- URL: http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njh/
Objects-- Education
- The National Archives' photographic collection online at American Memory
- Includes: WPA photographs., including rural schools in the 1930s.
- URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html>http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.hml
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