In the first years after its founding, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies focused on the history of education.
Topics Included:
- Resistance to education of the masses
- The impact of industrialization on educational systems
- Social control
- Apprenticeship
- Education reform
- The relationship between religion and secular education
- Public vs. private
- Class mobility
- The history of Black education
- The transmission of culture
- Science and education
- Military education
- Modernization and economic growth
Davis Center Fellows
1969-1970
- Patrick L. Alston, Bowling Green State University
- Robert L. Church, Northwestern University
- Richard L. Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
- Sheldon Rothblatt, University of California, Berkeley
1970-1971
- Konrad Hugo Jarausch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Donald W. Light, Rutgers University
- James K. McConica, University of St. Michael's College
- James McLachlan, Yale University
- Nicholas T. Phillipson, University of Edinburgh
- Richard Seabold, Emory University
1971-1972
- Patrick J. Harrigan, University of Waterloo
- Carl F. Kaestle, University of Wisconsin
- Peter Lundgreen, Universitaet Bielefeld
1972-1973
- David F. Allmendinger, Jr., University of Delaware
- Guy Howard Miller, University of Texas at Austin
- Gerald Strauss, Indiana University
- Illan (Selwyn) Troen, Ben-Gurion University of Negev
- Arthur Zilversmit, Lake Forest College
Shelby Cullom Davis Center Volume
Schooling and Society: Studies in the History of Education
Edited by Lawrence Stone
Copyright 1976 The Johns Hopkins University Press
