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Teaching and Research Interests

Select Publications:

Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory (Yale University Press, 2009)   

Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century (Harvard University Press, 2006)

Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools (Harvard University Press, 2002)

Distilling Democracy: Alcohol Education in America's Public Schools, 1880-1925 (University Press of Kansas, 1999)

"Ethnics Against Ethnicity: European Immigrants and Foreign-Language Instruction, 1890-1940," Journal of American History, March 2002

"Each 'Race' Could Have its Heroes Sung': Ethnicity and the History Wars in the 1920s," Journal of American History, June 2000

"Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971," Journal of American History, December 1995

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