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American History

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Always Leading, Forever Valiant

Stories of the University of Michigan, 1817–2017

By Kim Clarke & U-M Bicentennial Office
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Ann Arbor/University of Michigan, Education, Higher Education, History, American History

An engaging look at the history of the University of Michigan on its 200th birthday

"Destined to Fail"

Carl Seashore’s World of Eugenics, Psychology, Education, and Music

By Julia Eklund Koza
Subjects: Education, Music, Disability Studies, History, American History, Psychology, Race and Ethnicity

How eugenics became a keystone of modern educational policy

A Setting For Excellence, Part II

The Story of the Planning and Development of the Ann Arbor Campus of the University of Michigan

By Frederick W. Mayer
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, American History, Education, Higher Education, Urban Studies

An important contribution to understanding the evolution of the American university
 

A Setting For Excellence, Part II

The Story of the Planning and Development of the Ann Arbor Campus of the University of Michigan

By Frederick W. Mayer
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, American History, Education, Higher Education, Urban Studies

An important contribution to understanding the evolution of the American university
 

Unsportsmanlike Conduct

Exploiting College Athletes

By Walter Byers
Subjects: History, American History, Education, Sports

A challenge to the present system of college athletics

Schoolbook Nation

Conflicts over American History Textbooks from the Civil War to the Present

By Joseph Moreau
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, American History, Education, American Studies

An unbiased examination of the century-and-a-half-long culture wars fought in the pages of our country's history texts

Cross Purposes

Pierce v. Society of Sisters and the Struggle over Compulsory Public Education

By Paula Abrams
Subjects: Law, Legal History, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, History, American History, American Religious History, Race and Ethnicity, American Studies, Religion, Education

Do parents have the right to determine how their children should be educated?

An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys' College

Edited by Elisabeth Israels Perry & Jennifer Ann Price
By Olive San Louie Anderson
Subjects: Gender Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies, American Literature, Education, American Studies

A historical novel about a young woman's challenges as a member of the first coeducational class at a major university

With All Deliberate Speed

The Life of Philip Elman

By Norman I. Silber
Subjects: Law, Political Science, American Politics, Education, History, American History

A behind-the-scenes look at an unrecognized giant of American legal history and his role in the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education

Defending Diversity

Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan

By Patricia Gurin, Jeffrey S. Lehman, Earl Lewis, Eric L. Dey, Sylvia Hurtado, and Gerald Gurin
Subjects: Education, Law, African American Studies, History, American History

The first major book to argue in favor of affirmative action in higher education since Bowen and Bok's The Shape of the River

The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System

Detroit, 1907-81, Second Edition

By Jeffrey Mirel
Subjects: Education, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, History, American History
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The updated edition of the difficulties faced by the Detroit public schools and the historical reasons that led to the present situation

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