ABSTRACT
Summary: This chapter will discuss: Interpreting school history, from the right to the left; Purposes of educational history and its effect on public images and emotions regarding schools; Themes in American educational history; Globalization framework; Religious debates in U.S. schools from the colonial era to the present; Schools and the culture wars; Schools as managers of public ideas; Racial and ethnic conflict as a theme in school history; The role in educational history of equality of opportunity and human capital; Globalization, the consumer and environmental education
