Bair, Sarah D.

Bair, Sarah. The Early Years of Negro History Week, 1926-1950. In Histories of Social Studies and Race: 1865-2000, edited by Christine Woyshner and Chara Haeussler Bohan, 57-77. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012., For more...

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Bair, Sarah D.

For more information on the published version, visit Taylor and Francis's Website., Using social education as a theoretical framework, this article examines the educational theories of Nannie Helen Burroughs {1883-1961),...

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Laws, Priscilla W., Franklin, Scott V., and Jackson, David P.

Only 28% of the U.S. adult population is considered scientifically literate. Although this is the second highest among 35 developed countries, a fact attributed to postsecondary science requirements, it should not be considered...

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Schubert, Dan and Brown, Richard Harvey

Richard Harvey Brown and J. Daniel Schubert co-edited this Special Edition of American Behavioral Scientist, Volume 45 Issue 7, March 2002. For more information on the published version, visit SAGE's Website., Dan Schubert is a...

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Moffat, Wendy

Two years ago I left the ADE conference brimming with ideas to apply to my first weeks of a three-year appointment as chair of Dickinson College's largest department, with seventeen full-time faculty members, two newly...

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Bair, Sarah D. and Ackerman, Kay

The 150th anniversary of the American Civil War has brought renewed interest in the war itself and in how social studies educators teach the Civil War in their U.S. history courses. The authors encourage teachers to use social...

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Moffat, Wendy

In March 1956, William Edel, the President of Dickinson College suspended an economics instructor after he invoked the Fifth Amendment in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee. What follows is not a...

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Rose, Susan D.

For more information on the published version, visit Palgrave Macmillan's Website., Rose, Susan D. Sex, Sin, and Social Policy: Religion and the Politics of Abstinence-Only Programs. In Fundamentalism, Politics, and the Law,...

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Bair, Sarah D.

Bair, Sarah D. The Struggle for Community and Respectability: Black Women School Founders and the Politics of Character Education in the Early Twentieth Century. Theory and Research in Social Education 37, no. 4 (2009):...

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