Charles Dorn

BOOKS

Patriotic Education in a Global Age, with Randall Curren. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017.

American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

“‘I Never Saw as Good a Nature Show Before’: Walt Disney, Environmental Education, and the True-Life Adventures.” History of Education Quarterly, 63, no. 1 (2023), 243-270.

“Patriotic Education in a Global Age: A Brief Introduction,” with Randall Curren. Journal of Social Philosophy, 52, no. 3 (2021), 377-382.

“‘A New Global Ethic’: A History of the United Nations International Environmental Education Program, 1975-1995.” Foro de Educación, 18, no. 2 (2020), 83-108.

“Education for Citizenship… Is Too Important to Leave to Chance”: John Allen and the University of South Florida, 1956-1970.” Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, 32 (2017), 50-78.

“‘It Was a Sort of Soft War That One Waged’: Teacher Education at the University of Cape Town, 1976-1994.”  Southern African Review of Education, 19, no. 2 (2013), 48-71.

“The Cold War Politicization of Literacy: Communism, UNESCO and the World Bank,” with Kristen Ghodsee.  Diplomatic History, 36, no. 2 (2012), 373-398.

*Awarded History of Education Society Best Article Prize.

“Political Goals and Social Ideals: Dewey, Democracy, and the Emergence of the Turkish Republic,” with Doris Santoro.  Education and Culture, 27, no. 2 (2011), 3-27.

“From ‘Liberal Professions’ to ‘Lucrative Professions’: Bowdoin College, Stanford University, and the Civic Functions of Higher Education.”  Teachers College Record, 113, no. 7 (2011), 1566-1596.

“National Unity and National Discord: The Western Homefront during World War II,” with Connie Chiang.  Journal of the West, 49, no. 3 (2011), 41-60.

“‘War Conditions Made It Impossible…’: Historical Statistics and Women’s Higher Education Enrollments, 1940-1952.”  Studies in the Humanities, 36, no. 2 (2009), 108-115.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES

“The Nature and Nurture of Patriotic Virtue,” with Randall Curren.  In Tom Harrison and David Walkers, eds.  The Theory and Practice of Virtue Education.  Forthcoming: Routledge, 2017.

“A Modest Plea for Collaborative History and Philosophy of Education,” with Randall Curren.  In Antoinette Errante, Jackie Blount, and Bruce Kimball, eds. Philosophy and History of Education: Diverse Perspectives on Their Value and Relationship.  New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.

“‘A Vital, Free, Independent and Lay Republic’: John Dewey and the Role of Education in Establishing the Turkish State,” with Doris Santoro.  In Richard Garlitz and Lisa Jarvinen, eds. Teaching America to the World and the World to America: Education and Foreign Relations since 1870.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

“‘The Appeal to the German Mind’: Educational Reconstruction in the American Zone of Occupation, 1944-1948,” with Brian Puaca.  In Noah Sobe, ed.  American Post-Conflict Educational Reconstruction from the Spanish-American War to Iraq.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

BOOK REVIEWS

“Making Schools American: Nationalism and the Origin of Modern Educational Politics.” History of Education Quarterly, 63, no. 3 (2023): 425-427.

“Universities and Their Cities: Urban Higher Education in America.” History of Education, 47, no. 5 (2018): 718-719.

“The New Math: A Political History.” History of Education Quarterly, 56, no. 1 (2016): 197-200.

“The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II.” The Journal of American History, 102, no. 3 (2015): 847.

“Creating the College Man: American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood, 1890-1915.” Teachers College Record, January 3, 2011: http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=16269

“War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan, 1945-2007.”  History of Education Quarterly, 50, no. 1 (2010): 104-108.

“Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century.”  History of Education Quarterly, 47, no. 4 (2007): 539-543.

JOURNALISTIC PUBLICATIONS

“The Myths of Patriotic Education,” with Randall Curren. Real Clear Education, Commentary, October 16, 2020: https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2020/10/16/the_myths_of_patriotic_education_110489.html

"How a Socialist Ended Up Writing the Pledge of Allegiance," Fortune Magazine, Commentary. September 8, 2017: http://fortune.com/2017/09/08/pledge-of-allegiance-francis-bellamy-immigration/

"What is College Good For?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, Commentary, August 1, 2017: https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-Is-College-Good-For-/240778?cid=wcontentlist_hp_5

"For the Common Good," Inside Higher Ed, June 2017:                      https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/13/author-discusses-his-new-history-American-higher-education 

“History Wars and the History of Education: Responses from the Field.” Participant in Plenary Session at the History of Education Society annual meeting. November 2-6, 2022. Baltimore, MD.

“‘Not for the Intellectual Value’: Youth Development and the Natural World, 1900-1940.” Paper presented at the History of Education Society annual meeting. November 3-7, 2021. San Diego, CA.

Transnational Perspectives on Curriculum History. Book commentator at the International Conference on Politics and History of Education: Transfer, Transnationalization and Transformation of Education Policies (1945-2018). June 3, 2021. Virtual conference (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain).

“‘A New Global Ethic’: The United Nations International Environmental Education Program, 1975-1995.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Politics and History of Education: Transfer, Transnationalization and Transformation of Education Policies (1945-2018). June 3, 2021. Virtual conference (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain).

“‘I Never Saw as Good a Nature Show Before’: Walt Disney, Environmental Education, and the True-Life Adventures.” Paper presented at the History of Education Society annual meeting as part of the symposium, “Historicizing the Global Educational Influence of Textbooks, Television, and Film.” November 5-8, 2020. Virtual conference.

“Education and Democracy.” Sarah Lawrence College, March 29, 2018.  Bronxville, New York.

“For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America.” Amherst College, February 14, 2018.  Amherst, Massachusetts.

 “For Common Ends and for the Common Good: Higher Education in America.” Keynote Address, New England Association of Schools and Colleges, December 14, 2017. Boston, Massachusetts.

“‘To Be the Premier Deliverer of Workforce Training': The Transformation of the Junior College following World War II.” Paper presented at the History of Education Society annual meeting as part of the symposium, “Rediscovering American Higher Education: The Forties, Fifties, and Sixties.” November 3-6, 2016. Providence, RI.

“Higher Education and the Common Good.” University of New England (Portland Campus), January 25, 2016. Portland, Maine.

“Higher Education and the Common Good.” University of New England (Tangier Campus), November 30, 2015. Tangier, Morocco.

“Education from the Margins: The YWCA as a Site for Non-Traditional Women’s Education in the Early Twentieth Century.” Chair and discussant for panel of papers presented at the History of Education Society annual meeting. November 5-8, 2015. St. Louis, MO.

“‘The Situation Wasn’t Normal’: The University of Cape Town’s Department of Education, 1976-1994.” University of Cape Town. June 11, 2013. Cape Town, South Africa.