Introduction: education in the Great Depression / E. Thomas Ewing and David Hicks
Regional variations in union activism of American public schoolteachers / John F. Lyons
The "virtues of planning": American educators look at Soviet schools / E. Thomas Ewing
Civilization: its rise and fall in New Deal school murals / Michele Cohen
The Great Depression, German teachers, and Nazi revolution in the schools / Charles Lansing
Reading, writing, and racial uplift: education and reform in Cleveland, Ohio / Regennia N. Williams
"Caught in a tangled skein": the Great Depression in South Carolina's schools / Edward Janak
The sugarbag years: politics and education intersect in New Zealand / Carol Mutch
One-room country schools depicted in Farm Security Administration photographs / Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.
The pedagogy of work and thrift: economic intentionality as Turkish educational priority / Barak A. Salmoni
"Shall the youngest suffer most?": U.S. kindergartens in the Depression / Kristen D. Nawrotzki
Progressive schools for a democratic society: reforming education in Rio de Janeiro / Alberto Gawryszewski and Michael L. Conniff
"A magnificent adventure": negotiating and structuring curricular change in Virginia / David Hicks and Stephanie Van Hover
Encouraging education, increasing income: the al-Manayil village and rural education in Egypt / Amy J. Johnson
Afterword: lessons from a global history / E. Thomas Ewing and David Hicks.