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Topic guides

Reading paths through the archive. Each entry names the printed page to read, links the item page and opens the scan at that page.

Guides

Topic guide

Eugenics in the education record: a reading guide

25 passages on eugenics in the Commissioner of Education’s reports and the NEA’s annual proceedings, 1909–1950. Each one opens the scan at the printed page, so the record speaks for itself.

25 sources, each checked against the page image

Topic guide

The Blaine amendments and compulsory schooling

A reading guide to the federal and state records of the Blaine amendments and compulsory schooling: the 1875–76 votes in Congress, the state conventions, the first compulsory attendance laws and Pierce v. Society of Sisters.

25 sources, each checked against the page image

In preparation

Each of these guides goes up once every entry in its source list has been checked against the page it cites.

  • Compulsory school attendance, 1852–1935
  • From the Committee of Ten to the Cardinal Principles
  • The Commissioner of Education’s reports, by era
  • Teachers’ unions in the record, 1903–1963