Penn State University Libraries - History of Education

Using The CAT
Examples of selected subject headings include:
Education United States History
Education--Social aspects--United States--History
Education--Study and teaching--United States
Educational change--United States--History
Education--Philosophy--History
Agricultural education--United States
Women's studies--United States
Education, Humanistic--United States
Feminism and education
Education--Curricula--Philosophy

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Line 1: Education (or public schools)
Line 2: History
Line 3: Another variable (such as Indian or women or segregation, etc.)

• Historical Guides
• How to Find Newspapers

• American Educational History Journal
• European Educational Research Journal
• History of Education Review
• Historical Studies in Education
• History of Education Quarterly
• Perspectives on the History of Higher Education

• 19th Century Schoolbooks
• American Women’s History Research Guide [MTSU]
• Bibliography Of The History Of American Education [Zzbw] Jurgen Herbst /U. Wisconsin-Madison]
• Blackwell History of Education Museum [Northern Illinois University]
• Chronology Of Federal Legislation Affecting Public Higher Education And Extension [1787-1994]  
• Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University
• H-Education Electronic Network by the History of Education Society and H-Net
• History of Education and Childhood
• History of Education Selected Moments of the 20th Century 
• History of Education Society
• History of Higher Education 3rd. ed. ASHE Reader Series 
• The International Montessori Index
• Land-Grant Institutions [timeline] 
• W.H. McGuffey Papers [Miami of Ohio] including the Eclectic First Reader
• Nietz Old Textbook Collection [19th Century schoolbooks]
• Jean Piaget Society
• School: The Story of American Public Education 
• Schools: The Story of American Public Education (site for the PBS series, “School”)
  

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