Women’s Higher Education in the United States

Women’s Higher Education in the United States

Author: Margaret A. Nash

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-24

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 113759084X

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This volume presents new perspectives on the history of higher education for women in the United States. By introducing new voices and viewpoints into the literature on the history of higher education from the early nineteenth century through the 1970s, these essays address the meaning diverse groups of women have made of their education or their exclusion from education, and delve deeply into how those experiences were shaped by concepts of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin. Nash demonstrates how an examination of the history of women’s education can transform our understanding of educational institutions and processes more generally.


In Pursuit of Knowledge

In Pursuit of Knowledge

Author: Kabria Baumgartner

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2022-04

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1479816728

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Winner, 2021 AERA Outstanding Book Award Winner, 2021 AERA Division F New Scholar's Book Award Winner, 2020 Mary Kelley Book Prize, given by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Winner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education Society Uncovers the hidden role of girls and women in the desegregation of American education The story of school desegregation in the United States often begins in the mid-twentieth-century South. Drawing on archival sources and genealogical records, Kabria Baumgartner uncovers the story’s origins in the nineteenth-century Northeast and identifies a previously overlooked group of activists: African American girls and women. In their quest for education, African American girls and women faced numerous obstacles—from threats and harassment to violence. For them, education was a daring undertaking that put them in harm’s way. Yet bold and brave young women such as Sarah Harris, Sarah Parker Remond, Rosetta Morrison, Susan Paul, and Sarah Mapps Douglass persisted. In Pursuit of Knowledge argues that African American girls and women strategized, organized, wrote, and protested for equal school rights—not just for themselves, but for all. Their activism gave rise to a new vision of womanhood: the purposeful woman, who was learned, active, resilient, and forward-thinking. Moreover, these young women set in motion equal-school-rights victories at the local and state level, and laid the groundwork for further action to democratize schools in twentieth-century America. In this thought-provoking book, Baumgartner demonstrates that the confluence of race and gender has shaped the long history of school desegregation in the United States right up to the present.


The American Evangelical Story

The American Evangelical Story

Author: Douglas A. Sweeney

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2005-08

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 080102658X

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Surveys the role American evangelicalism has had in shaping global evangelical history.


Transforming Women's Education

Transforming Women's Education

Author: Jewel A. Smith

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2019-01-30

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0252051076

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Female seminaries in nineteenth-century America offered middle-class women the rare privilege of training in music and the liberal arts. A music background in particular provided the foundation for a teaching career, one of the few paths open to women. Jewel A. Smith opens the doors of four female seminaries, revealing a milieu where rigorous training focused on music as an artistic pursuit rather than a social skill. Drawing on previously untapped archives, Smith charts women's musical experiences and training as well as the curricula and instruction available to them, the repertoire they mastered, and the philosophies undergirding their education. She also examines the complex tensions between the ideals of a young democracy and a deeply gendered system of education and professional advancement. An in-depth study of female seminaries as major institutions of learning, Transforming Women's Education illuminates how musical training added to women's lives and how their artistic acumen contributed to American society.


The History of Theological Education

The History of Theological Education

Author: Dr. Justo L. Gonzalez

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2015-03-17

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1426787782

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Theological education has always been vital to the Church’s life and mission; yet today it is in crisis, lacking focus, direction, but also resources and even students. In the early Church, there is no doubt that to lead worship one had to be able to read and interpret the Bible. In order to lead, it was necessary to know at least something about the history of Israel and the work of God in the Gospels, and interpret that history, making it relevant to daily living. Quickly the Church developed schools for its teachers, whether lay or clergy. A catechetical system was organized through which candidates prepared for baptism were given a basic form of theological education. Hence to be a Christian meant persons knew what and why they believed. But over the years, theological education has come to mean education for clergy and church professionals. It has drifted, seeking new moorings.


Alma Mater

Alma Mater

Author: Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13:

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The Diocesan Seminary in the United States

The Diocesan Seminary in the United States

Author: Joseph Michael White

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13:

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An historical survey focusing on seminaries training diocesan clergy (this aspect of the Catholic seminary tradition originated with the Council of Trent's seminary decree of 1563) and not priests of religious orders. The author traces the formation of traditions, the Americanist era, and the Roman direction. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


The Education of the Southern Belle

The Education of the Southern Belle

Author: Christie Farnham

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0814726151

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Explores the whole range of social issues surrounding the education of women in the southern US during the first half of the 19th century. Noting that women's colleges and seminaries strove to maintain an academic standard equal to that of men's, while reinforcing the society's construction of femininity, delves into the tension which that disparity created among educators, and the strategies they used to deny it. Draws heavily from diaries, notebooks, and other personal papers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR