New Perspectives on the History of the Twentieth-Century American High School

1. Introduction2. Cultivating Demand for Vocational Secondary Education: A Case Study of Michigan3. Books, Basketball, and Order of the Fish: Youth Culture in Small-Town High Schools4. A Window into the World of Students: An Analysis of 1920s High School Student Newspapers5. Resisting Boundaries, Demanding Change: Gender in the Postwar High School6. "Fight for Your Land" Southern High School Student Activists and the Struggle for Youth Autonomy, 1946-19647. Renovating The Last Little Citadel (1986) after Thirty Five Years8. "Southeast High's New Reputation: A Historical Study of a Large Midwestern High School"9. An Education for "Intellectual Power" Theodore Sizer and the Origins of the Coalition of Essential Schools at Phillips Academy, Andover, 1972-198110. The Forgotten History of High School Violence: Desegregation and the Making of Mass Incarceration in the United States11. High School Inequities and School Funding in North Carolina, 1977-199712. Epilogue