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"A time to reap and a time to sow?": rethinking rural school calendars in the nineteenth century
"No more rules, no more books": the elimination of summer terms from the nineteenth-century urban school calendar
"School's out for summer": ideology and the creation of summer vacation, 1840-90
"Mitigating mental and moral stagnation": reassessment of summer education and social transformations, 1865-1915
"Keeping up with Superintendent Jones": the origins, diffusion, and bureaucratic transformation of vacation schools, 1866-1929
"Easy credit": the limits of reputation and the structure of summer schools in Detroit, 1901-39
Epilogue: Summer school in the service of national education aims, 1930-2000
Appendix: The origins of vacation schools in the United States.
"No more rules, no more books": the elimination of summer terms from the nineteenth-century urban school calendar
"School's out for summer": ideology and the creation of summer vacation, 1840-90
"Mitigating mental and moral stagnation": reassessment of summer education and social transformations, 1865-1915
"Keeping up with Superintendent Jones": the origins, diffusion, and bureaucratic transformation of vacation schools, 1866-1929
"Easy credit": the limits of reputation and the structure of summer schools in Detroit, 1901-39
Epilogue: Summer school in the service of national education aims, 1930-2000
Appendix: The origins of vacation schools in the United States.