History of Education Bibliography

The Bibliography of the history of education is a vast topic, especially for the United States. This is a highly selected guide to the most useful studies.

American history

Surveys

• Button, H. Warren and Provenzo, Eugene F., Jr. History of Education and Culture in America. Prentice-Hall, 1983. 379 pp.
• Cremin, Lawrence A. The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American education, 1876–1957. (1961).
• Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607–1783. (1970); American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876. (1980); American Education: The Metropolitan Experience, 1876-1980 (1990); standard 3 vol detailed scholarly history; summarized in Cremin, Traditions of American Education (1977) online edition
• Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson. The History of Education: Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the ... (1920), covers Europe and U.S. 848 pages; online edition
• Curti, M. E. The social ideas of American educators, with new chapter on the last twenty-five years. (1959).
• Herbst, Juergen. The once and future school: Three hundred and fifty years of American secondary education. (1996).
• Herbst, Juergen. School Choice and School Governance: A Historical Study of the United States and Germany 2006. ISBN 1-4039-7302-4.
• Jeynes, William H. American Educational History: School, Society, and the Common Good (2007)
• Lucas, C. J. American higher education: A history. (1994). pp.; reprinted essays from History of Education Quarterly
• Parkerson, Donald H. and Parkerson, Jo Ann. Transitions in American Education: A Social History of Teaching. (2001). 242 pp.
• Parkerson, Donald H. and Parkerson, Jo Ann. The Emergence of the Common School in the U.S. Countryside. (1998). 192 pp.
• Provenzo, Eugene F., ed. Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education (2008), 1392pp; excerpt and text search
• Rury, John L. Education and Social Change: Themes in the History of American Schooling (2002). online version
• Thelin, John R. A History of American Higher Education. (2004). 421 pp.
• Tyack, David B. The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education (1974),
• Tyack, David B., & Hansot, E. Managers of Virtue: Public school leadership in America, 1820–1980. (1982). online edition

Pre 1880

• Addis, Cameron. Jefferson's Vision for Education: 1760-1845. (2003). 255 pp.
• Allmendinger, Jr., David F. Paupers and Scholars: The Transformation of Student Life in Nineteenth century New England 1975
• Axtell, J. The school upon a hill: Education and society in colonial New England. (1974).
• Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607–1783. (1970); American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876. (1980)
• Graham, Patricia Albjerg. Community & Class in American Education, 1865-1918 1974
• Kaestle, Carl F. The Evolution of an Urban School System: New York City, 1750-1850. (1974)
• Kaestle, Carl F. Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860. (1983). 266 pp.
• Katz, Michael. The Irony of Early School Reform (1968), on Massachusetts
• McAfee, Ward F. Religion, Race, and Reconstruction: The Public School in the Politics of the 1870s. (1998). 320 pp.
• Mattingly, Paul H. The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen in the Nineteenth Century 1975
• Messerli, Jonathan. Horace Mann: A Biography 1972
• Parkerson, Donald H. and Parkerson, Jo Ann. The Emergence of the Common School in the U.S. Countryside. (1998). 192 pp.
• Reese, William J. The Origins of the American High School. (1995).
• Robson, David W. Educating Republicans: The College in the Era of the American Revolution, 1750-1800. (1985). 272 pp.

Since 1880

• Maurice R. Berube; American School Reform: Progressive, Equity, and Excellence Movements, 1883-1993. 1994. online version
• Brint, S., & Karabel, J. The Diverted Dream: Community colleges and the promise of educational opportunity in America, 1900–1985. (1989).
• Cremin, Lawrence A. The transformation of the school: Progressivism in American education, 1876–1957. (1961).
• Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The Metropolitan Experience, 1876-1980 (1990); vol 3 of standard detailed scholarly history
• Dorn, Sherman. Creating the Dropout: An Institutional and Social History of School Failure. (1996). 167 pp.
• Fenske, Neil R. A History of American Public High Schools 1890-1990: Through the Eyes of Principals. (1997). 230 pp.
• Knight, Edgar W.; Fifty Years of American Education: A Historical Review and Critical Appraisal (1952) online edition
• Krug, Edward A. The shaping of the American high school, 1880–1920. (1964); The American high school, 1920–1940. (1972). standard 2 vol scholarly history
• Ravitch, Diane. Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms. (2000). 555 pp. by conservative
• Ravitch, Diane and Vinovskis, Maris A., ed. Learning from the Past: What History Teaches Us about School Reform. (1995). 381 pp. by conservatves
• Tyack, David B. The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education (1974), highly influential
• Tyack, David and Cuban, Larry. Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform. (1995). 184 pp.
• Tyack, David B., & Hansot, E. Managers of virtue: Public school leadership in America, 1820–1980. (1982).
• Tyack, David; Lowe, Robert; Hansot, Elisabeth. Public Schools in Hard Times: The Great Depression and Recent Years. (1984). 267 pp.
• Zilversmit, Arthur. Changing Schools: Progressive Education Theory and Practice, 1930-1960. (1993). 251 pp.

Race

• Allen, Walter R. Joseph O. Jewell; "African American Education since 'An American Dilemma'" Daedalus, Vol. 124, 1995 online version
• Anderson; James D. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 (University of North Carolina Press, 1988). online edition
• Baker, Liva. The Second Battle of New Orleans: The Hundred-Year Struggle to Integrate the Schools. HarperCollins, 1996. 564 pp.
• Belt-Beyan; Phyllis M. The Emergence of African American Literacy Traditions: Family and Community Efforts in the Nineteenth Century. (2004).
• Bond Horace M. Negro Education in Alabama: A Study in Cotton and Steel. (1939).
• Bullock Henry Allen. A History of Negro Education in the South from 1619 to the Present. 1967
• Cooper, Arnold. Between Struggle and Hope: Four Black Educators in the South, 1894-1915. (1989). 121 pp.
• Virginia Lantz Denton; Booker T. Washington and the Adult Education Movement. (1993).
• Gardner. Booker T. "The Educational Contributions of Booker T. Washington." Journal of Negro History 14 (Fall 1975): 502-18. in JSTOR
• Giddings, Paula. In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement. Morrow, 1988. 336 pp.
• Hardin, John A. Fifty Years of Segregation: Black Higher Education in Kentucky, 1904-1954. (1997). 182 pp.
• Harlan Louis R. Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915. (1983). standard scholarly biography
• Ihle, Elizabeth L., ed. Black Women in Higher Education: An Anthology of Essays, Studies, and Documents. Garland, 1992. 341 pp.
• McMurry Linda O. George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol, 1864-1943. Oxford University Press, 1981.
• Morris Robert C. Reading, 'Riting, and Reconstruction: The Education of Freedmen in the South, 1861-1870. 1981.
• Myrdal, Gunnar. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. 2 vols. 1944. esp for 1930s and early 1940s
• Norrell, Robert J. Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington (2009) favorable scholarly biography
• Podair, Jerald E. The Strike that Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis. 2002. 273 pp.
• Schall, Keith L. ed. Stoney the Road: Chapters in the History of Hampton Institute 1977.
• Shabazz, Amilcar. Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas. 2004. 301 pp. online review

Ethnicity, religion

• Brumberg, Stephan F. Going to America, Going to School: The Jewish Immigrant Public School Encounter in Turn-of-the-Century New York City. (1986). 282 pp.
• Gleason, Philip. Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century. (1995). 434 pp.
• Justice, Benjamin. The War That Wasn't: Religious Conflict and Compromise in the Common Schools of New York State, 1865-1900. (2005). 285 pp.
• Leahy, William P. Adapting to America: Catholics, Jesuits, and Higher Education in the Twentieth Century. (1991). 187 pp.
• MacDonald, Victoria-Maria. Latino Education in the United States: A Narrated History from 1513-2000 (2004)
• Ringenberg, William C. The Christian College: A History of Protestant Higher Education in America. Eerdmans for Christian U. Pr., 1984. 257 pp.
• Rosovsky, Nitza. The Jewish Experience at Harvard and Radcliffe. Harvard U. Press, 1986. 108 pp.
• Sanders, James W The education of an urban minority: Catholics in Chicago, 1833–1965. (1977).
• Solberg, Richard W. Lutheran Higher Education in North America. (1985). 352 pp.
• Walch, Timothy. Parish School: American Catholic Parochial Education from Colonial Times to the Present. 1996.

Gender

• Bordin, Ruth. Alice Freeman Palmer: The Evolution of a New Woman. 1993. 314 pp.
• Eisenmann, Linda ed. Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States. (1998)
• Eisenmann, Linda. Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965. 2006. 304 pp.
• Eschbach, Elizabeth Seymour. The Higher Education of Women in England and America, 1865-1920. , 1993. 238 pp.
• Farnham, Christie Anne. The Education of the Southern Belle: Higher Education and Student Socialization in the Antebellum South. New York U. Press, 1994. 257 pp.
• Faragher, John Mack and Howe, Florence, ed. Women and Higher Education in American History. Norton, 1988. 220 pp.
• Gordon, Lynn D. Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era. Yale U. Press, 1990. 258 pp.
• Holland, Dorothy and Eisenhart, Margaret. Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture. U. of Chicago Press, 1990. 273 pp.
• Ihle, Elizabeth L., ed. Black Women in Higher Education: An Anthology of Essays, Studies, and Documents. Garland, 1992. 341 pp.
• Mayo A. D. Southern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in the South. 1892
• McCandless, Amy Thompson. The Past in the Present: Women's Higher Education in the Twentieth century American South. U. of Alabama Press, 1999. 400 pp.
• Menk, Patricia H. To Live in Time: The Sesquicentennial History of Mary Baldwin College. Verona, Va.: Mid Valley, 1992. 507 pp.
• Nash, Margaret A. Women's Education in the United States, 1780-1840 (2005)
• Nidiffer, Jana. Pioneering Deans of Women: More Than Wise and Pious Matrons. Teachers Coll. Press, 2000. 184 pp.
• Rossiter, Margaret W. Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972. Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1995. 584 pp.
• Sadovnik, Alan R. and Semel, Susan F., ed. Founding Mothers and Others: Women Educational Leaders during the Progressive Era. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 288 pp.
• Solomon, Barbara M. In the company of educated women: A history of women and higher education in America. (1985).

Economic and social history

• Brown, Richard D. "Modernization and the Modem Personality in Early America, 1600-1865: A Sketch of a Synthesis," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2 (1971-72): 201-228, what education accomplished
• Goldin, Claudia. "America's graduation from high school: The evolution and spread of secondary schooling in the twentieth century." Journal of Economic History, (1998). 58 (2), 345–374. in JSTOR
• Jensen, Richard J., and Mark Friedberger. Education and Social Structure: An Historical Study of Iowa, 1870-1930 (Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1976)
• Kaelble, Hartmut. Social Mobility in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Europe and America in Comparative Perspective. St. Martin's, 1986. 183 pp.
• McClellan, B. Edward and Reese, William J., ed. The Social History of American Education. U. of Illinois Pr., 1988. 370 pp.; reprinted essays from History of Education Quarterly
• Nasaw, David. Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in the United States (1981) online version
• Rury, John L. Education and Social Change: Themes in the History of American Schooling.'; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2002. online version

Regional and Local Studies

• Ambler Charles H. A History of Education in West Virginia from Early Colonial Times to 1949. 1951
• Cohen, Ronald D. Children of the Mill: Schooling and Society in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1960. Indiana U. Press, 1990. 280 pp.
• DeVore, Donald E. and Logsdon, Joseph. Crescent City Schools: Public Education in New Orleans, 1841-1991. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, 1991. 402 pp.
• Dotts, Cecil K. and Sikkema, Mildred. Challenging the Status Quo: Public Education in Hawaii, 1840-1980. Honolulu: Hawaii Educ. Assoc., 1994. 285 pp.
• Knight; Edgar W. Education in the South (1924) online edition
• Lazerson, Marvin; Origins of the Urban School: Public Education in Massachusetts, 1870-1915 Harvard University Press, 1971 online version
• Leloudis, J. L. Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, self, and society in North Carolina, 1880–1920. (1996). online version
• Mirel, Jeffrey. The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907-81. U. of Michigan Press, 1993. 456 pp.
• Nelson, Bryce E. Good Schools: The Seattle Public School System, 1901-1930. U. of Washington Press, 1988. 187 pp.
• O'Brien, Thomas V. The Politics of Race and Schooling: Public Education in Georgia, 1900-1961. 1999. 229 pp.
• Peterson, Paul E. The Politics of School Reform, 1870-1940. 1985. 241 pp. on Chicago
• Raftery, Judith Rosenberg. Land of Fair Promise: Politics and Reform in Los Angeles Schools, 1885-1941. 284 pp.
• Rury, John L. and Cassell, Frank A., eds. Seeds of Crisis: Public Schooling in Milwaukee since 1920. , 1993. 318 pp.
• Theobald, Paul. Call School: Rural Education in the Midwest to 1918. 1995. 246 pp.
• Troen, Selwyn K.; The Public and the Schools: Shaping the St. Louis System, 1838-1920 (1975) online version

Higher Education

Surveys

• Bogue, E. Grady and Aper, Jeffrey. Exploring the Heritage of American Higher Education: The Evolution of Philosophy and Policy. 2000. 272 pp.
• Brint, S., & Karabel, J. The Diverted Dream: Community colleges and the promise of educational opportunity in America, 1900–1985. (1989).
• Carney, Cary Michael. Native American Higher Education in the United States. Transaction, 1999. 193 pp.
• Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607–1783. (1970); American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876. (1980); American Education: The Metropolitan Experience, 1876-1980 (1990); standard 3 vol detailed scholarly history
• Eisenmann, Linda. Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965. 2006. 304 pp.
• Faragher, John Mack and Howe, Florence, ed. Women and Higher Education in American History. 1988. 220 pp.
• Frye, John H. The Vision of the Public Junior College, 1900-1940: Professional Goals and Popular Aspirations. 1992. 163 pp.
• Geiger, Roger L., ed. The American College in the Nineteenth Century. Vanderbilt University Press. (2000). online review
• Geiger, Roger L. To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900-1940. (1986).
• Geiger, Roger L. Research and Relevant Knowledge: American Research Universities Since World War II. (2001).
• Gleason, Philip. Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century. 1995. 434 pp.
• Horowitz, Helen L. Campus life: Undergraduate cultures from the end of the eighteenth century to the present. (1987).
• Ihle, Elizabeth L., ed. Black Women in Higher Education: An Anthology of Essays, Studies, and Documents. Garland, 1992. 341 pp.
• Jarausch, Konrad H., ed. The Transformation of Higher Learning, 1860-1930. 1983. 375 pp.
• Kerr, Clark. The Great Transformation in Higher Education, 1960-1980. 1991. 383 pp.
• Leahy, William P. Adapting to America: Catholics, Jesuits, and Higher Education in the Twentieth Century. 1991. 187 pp.
• Levine, D. O. The American college and the culture of aspiration, 1915–1940. (1986).
• Lewis, Lionel L. Marginal Worth: Teaching and the Academic Labor Market. 1996. 162 pp.
• Lucas, C. J. American higher education: A history. (1994).
• Robson, David W. Educating Republicans: The College in the Era of the American Revolution, 1750-1800. , 1985. 272 pp.
• Ruben, Julie. The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality. (1996).
• Thelin, John R. A History of American Higher Education. 2004. 421 pp.
• Veysey Lawrence R. The emergence of the American university. (1965).

State and regional

• Douglass, John Aubrey. The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan. 2000. 460 pp.
• Hoover, Herbert T.; Alexander, Ruth Ann; Peterson, Patricia M.; and Zimmerman, Larry J., eds. From Idea to Institution: Higher Education in South Dakota. 1989. 238 pp.
• McCandless, Amy Thompson. The Past in the Present: Women's Higher Education in the Twentieth-Century American South. U. of Alabama Press, 1999. 400 pp.
• Sansing, David G. Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi. 1990. 309 pp.
• Shabazz, Amilcar. Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas. 2004. 301 pp. online review

Specific colleges and universities

• Ashmore, Harry S. Unseasonable Truths: The Life of Robert Maynard Hutchins. 1989. 616 pp. President of the U of Chicago
• Dressel, Paul L. College to University: The Hannah Years at Michigan State, 1935-1969. 1987. 442 pp.
• Karabel, Jerome. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. 2005. 711 pp.
• Link, William A. William Friday: Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education. 1995. 494 pp. at U of North Carolina
• Potts, David B. Wesleyan University, 1831-1910: Collegiate Enterprise in New England. 1992. 383 pp.
• Trelease, Allen W. Making North Carolina Literate: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, from Normal School to Metropolitan University. 2004. 659 pp.

Curriculum

• Casement, William. The Great Canon Controversy: The Battle of the Books in Higher Education. (1996). 172 pp.
• Current, Richard Nelson. Phi Beta Kappa in American Life: The First Two Hundred Years. (1990). 319 pp.
• Frost, Dan R. Thinking Confederates: Academia and the Idea of Progress in the New South. (2000). 207 pp.
• Grayson, Lawrence P. The Making of an Engineer: An Illustrated History of Engineering Education in the United States and Canada. (1993). 290 pp.
• Hart, D. G. The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education. (1999). 321 pp.
• Hoeveler, J. David. Creating the American Mind: Intellect and Politics in the Colonial Colleges. (2002). 381 pp.
• Hohendahl, Peter Uwe, ed. German Studies in the United States: A Historical Handbook. Modern Language Assoc. of Am., 2003. 750 pp.
• Hoffman, Leonore and Rosenfelt, Deborah, eds. Teaching Women's Literature from a Regional Perspective. Modern Language Assoc. of Am., 1982. 213 pp.
• Hunt, Thomas C. and Carper, James C., eds. Religious Higher Education in the United States. (1996). 635 pp.
• Marsden, George M. The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief. (1994). 462 pp.
• Röhrs, Hermann. The Classical German Concept of the University and Its Influence on Higher Education in the United States. (1995). 128 pp.
• Sloan, Douglas. Faith and Knowledge: Mainline Protestantism and American Higher Education. (1994). 252 pp.
• Smith, Peter; The History of American Art Education: Learning about Art in American Schools (1996) online editiion
• Wildes, Karl L. and Lindgren, Nilo A. A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982. (1985). 423 pp.
• Winterer, Caroline. The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910. (2002). 244 pp.

Recent

• John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe. Politics, Markets and America's Schools (1990)
• Kosar, Kevin R. Failing Grades: The Federal Politics of Education Standards. Rienner, 2005. 259 pp.
• E. Wayne Ross et al. eds. Defending Public Schools. (Praeger, 2004), 4 vol: Volume: 1: Education Under the Security State (2004) online version; Volume: 2: Teaching for a Democratic Society (2004) online version; Volume: 3: Curriculum Continuity and Change in the 21st Century (2004) online version; Volume: 4: The Nature and Limits of Standards-Based Reform and Assessment (2004) online version
• Tyack, David. Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society. 2003. 237 pp.

Historiography

• Katz, Michael ed., Education in American History: Readings on the Social Issues 1973
• Sloan, Douglas. "Historiography and the History of Education," in Fred Kerlinger, ed., Review of Research in Education, 1 (1973): 239-269.

Primary Sources

• Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings to Illustrate the Development of Educational Practice, Theory, and Organization, (1920) covers US and Europe, 684pp online edition
• Diener, Thomas. Growth of an American Invention: A Documentary History of the Junior and Community College Movement. Greenwood, 1986. 249 pp.
• Richard Hofstadter and C. Dewitt Hardy, eds; The Development and Scope of Higher Education in the United States (1952) online edition
• Knight, Edgar W. and Clifton L. Hall, eds.; Readings in American Educational History (1951) online edition, very wide-range of topics

World

• Bowen, James. History of Western Education—The Ancient World: Orient and Mediterranean 2000 B.C.-A.D. 1054 (2003)
  • A History of Western Education Volume 2 Civilization of Europe Sixth to Sixteenth Century (vol 2, 1975)
  • A History of Western Education: The Modern West, Europe and the New World. (vol 3, 1981). 631 pp.
• Connell, W. F. A History of Education in the Twentieth Century

World. (1981). 478 pp.

• Gwynne-Thomas, E. H. A Concise History of Education to 1900 A.D. (1981). 321 pp.
• Maynes, Mary Jo. Schooling in Western Europe: A Social History. (1985). 177 pp.
• Perkinson, Henry J. Since Socrates: Studies in the History of Western Educational Thought. (1980). 222 pp.
• Power, Edward J. A Legacy of Learning: A History of Western Education. (1991). 400 pp.

Britain

• Cooke, Anthony. From Popular Enlightenment to Lifelong Learning: A History of Adult Education in Scotland 1707-2005 (2006)
• Curtis, Stanley James. History of education in Great Britain (6th ed. 1965)
• Eschbach, Elizabeth Seymour. The Higher Education of Women in England and America, 1865-1920, (1993) 238 pp.
• Graham, John J. History of Education in Scotland (1998)
• Hillis, Peter. History Education in Scotland (1999)
• Lawson, Silver. A Social History of Education in England (2007)
• O'Day, Rosemary. Education and Society, 1500-1800: The Social Foundations of Education in Early Modern Britain. (1982). 324 pp.
• Purvis, June. A History of Women's Education in England. (1991). 159 pp.
• Sturt, Mary. The Education of the People: a History of Primary Education in England and Wales in the Nineteenth Century (1967)

Canada

• Axelrod, Paul. The Promise of Schooling: Education in Canada,

1800-1914. (1997). 155 pp.

• Axelrod, Paul and Reid, John G., eds. Youth, University, and Canadian Society: Essays in the Social History of Higher Education. (1989). 381 pp.
• Barman, Jean; Hébert, Yvonne; and McCaskill, Don, eds. Indian Education in Canada (2 vol 1986)
• Emberley, Peter C. and Newell, Waller R. Bankrupt Education: The Decline of Liberal Education in Canada. (1994). 189 pp.
• Gidney, R. D. and Millar, W. P. J. Inventing Secondary Education: The Rise of the High School in Nineteenth-Century Ontario. (1990). 440 pp.
• Grayson, Lawrence P. The Making of an Engineer: An Illustrated History of Engineering Education in the United States and Canada. (1993). 290 pp.
• Harris, Robin S. A History of Higher Education in Canada, 1663-1960. (1976). 715 pp.
• Katz, Michael B. and Mattingly, Paul H., eds. Education and Social Change: Themes from Ontario's Past. (1975). 324 pp.
• McCann, Phillip. Schooling in a Fishing Society: Education and Economic Conditions in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1836-1986. (1994). 277 pp.
• McDonald, Neil and Chaiton, Alf, eds. Egerton Ryerson and His Times: Essays on the History of Education. (1978). 319 pp.
• Magnuson, Roger. A brief history of Quebec education: From New France to Parti Quebecois (1980)
• Prentice, Alison. The School Promoters: Education and Social Class in Mid-Nineteenth Century Upper Canada. (1977). 186 pp.
• Rawlyk, G. A., ed. Canadian Baptists and Christian Higher Education. (1988). 130 pp.
• Sheehan, Nancy J.; Wilson, J. Donald; and Jones, David C., eds. Schools in the West: Essays in Canadian Educational History. (1986). 323 pp.
• Walker, Franklin A. Catholic Education and Politics in Ontario. (3 vol. 1986).
• Wilson, J. Donald, ed. An Imperfect Past: Education and Society in Canadian History. (1984). 218 pp.
• Wilson, J. Donald and Jones, David C., eds. Schooling and Society in 20th Century British Columbia. (1980). 191 pp.

France

• Baker, Donald N. and Harrigan, Patrick J., eds. The Making of Frenchmen: Current Directions in the History of Education in France, 1679-1979. (1980). 646 pp.
• Strumingher, Laura S. What Were Little Girls and Boys Made of?: Primary Education in Rural France, 1830-80 (1983)
• Peasants into Frenchmen

Russia

• Kirschenbaum, Lisa A. Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932 (2000) excerpt and text search