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HIS 300 - Schooling in American History: Myth versus Reality (Noraian)

The resources in this guide will be useful for student research assignments on the history of American education

Related Readings

 Related Readings

 American Girl Series

1.   Chatelain, Marcia. "American Historian, Meet American Girl." Perspectives On History 53, no. 9 (December 2015): 116 - 132.

2.  Philpott, Sarah Lewis. "Girls Like Us: Looking at History through the American Girl Series." Social Studies And The Young Learner 26, no. 3 (January 1, 2014): 24-27. 


3.  Rudolph, Jennifer Domino. "Identity Theft: Gentrification, Latinidad, and American Girl Marisol Luna." Aztlan: A Journal Of Chicano Studies 34, no. 1 (March 1, 2009): 65-91. 


4.  Elliott, Ian.  "Connie Porter: Telling It the Way It Was.Teaching Pre K-8  25 no. 2 (October, 1994): 40-42.
[Porter is the author of  Meet Addy, a fictional African American slave girl in the American Girl series.]


5. Nielsen, Fred. "American History through the Eyes of the American Girls." Journal Of American & Comparative Cultures 25, no. 1/2 (Spring, 2002): 85-93.


6.  Story, Nancy Duffey.  "Pleasant Company's American Girls Collection: The Corporate Construction of Girlhood."

University of Georgia, 2002.
 

7.  Onuora, Ngozi. "Female Slave Portrayals in Child and Young Adult Historical Fiction by African American Authors." University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014.


8. Rosner, Molly. "The American Girl Company and the Uses of Nostalgia in Children’s Consumer Culture." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 6, no. 2 (Winter, 2014): 35-53.
 

9. Nardone, Carroll Ferguson.  "Ways of knowing: Ideology and *representation in American Girls texts." New Mexico State University, 2002.
 

10. Mickenberg, Julia L.and Philip Nel. "Radical Children's Literature Now!" Children's Literature Association Quarterly 36, no. 4 (2011): 445-473.
 


Small Wonder by Jonathan Zimmerman

1. Kaufman, Polly Welts. "[Small Wonder]." Journal Of American History 97, no. 1 (June, 2010): 268-269.

2.  Theobald, Paul. "Small Wonder." History Of Education Quarterly 50, no. 3 (August, 2010): 426-428.

3. Collier, Christopher. "[Small Wonder]." Journal Of Social History 44, no. 2 (Winter, 2010): 596-598.
 

4.  Mohr, Clarence L.1. "Small Wonder." American Studies 51, no. 3/4 (Fall/Winter, 2010): 217-218.
 

5.  Birk, Megan. "[Small Wonder]." Agricultural History 84, no. 4 (Fall, 2010): 559-560.
   

6.  Monaghan, Peter. "One-Room Schools: ‘Caldrons of Chaos’." Chronicle Of Higher Education 55, no. 42 (July 24, 2009): B15.
   

7.  Durst, Anne. "Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory." History Of Education 40, no. 5 (September 2011): 681-683.


8. 
Lauck, Jon. "Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory." Kansas History 32, no. 4 (Winter 2010): 282.

9.   Remmel, Rachel. "Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory." Buildings & Landscapes 19, no. 1 (Spring, 2012): 120-122.

 

 

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