These nine essays examine "how print educates” in settings as diverse as depression-era work camps, religious training, and broadcast television, all the while revealing the enduring tensions that exist among the controlling interests of print producers and consumers. Offering multiple perspectives, including print culture history, literary studies, labour history, gender history, the history of race, and the history of childhood and adolescence, this is a pioneering investigation into the intersection of education and print culture.

Adam R. Nelson is associate professor of educational policy studies and history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author of Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872-1964 and The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston's Public Schools, 1950-1985. John L. Rudolph is professor of curriculum and instruction and of history of science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author of Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education.