Linda C. Morice, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USALaurel Puchner, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA

• Preface, Linda C. Morice and Laurel Puchner.Introduction, Linda C. Morice and Laurel Puchner.Part I. The Scope and Nature of Education.Chapter 1. Racially Integrated Education: The Antebellum Thought of Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Frederick Douglass, Carol B. Conaway.Chapter 2. Company Schooling in the New South: Lawrence Peter Hollis and the Parker Mill Schools in South Carolina, Bart Dredge.Chapter 3. Dreams Deferred: White Reaction to Langston Hughes' Depression-Era Educational Tour of the South, Bart Dredge and Cayce Tabor.Part II. Advancing an Educational Agenda.Chapter 4. Education and Politics in Texas: The Legacies of Laurine C. Anderson and Edward L. Blackshear, Jared R. Stallones.Chapter 5. Adventitiously Blind, Advantageously Political: John Eldred Swearingen and Social Definitions of Disability in Progressive-Era South Carolina, Edward A. Janak.Chapter 6. Correspondence Study and the Crime of the Century: Helen Williams, Nathan Leopold, and the Stateville Correspondence School, Von Pittman.Part III. Educational Reform.Chapter 7. The Second Great Awakening and American Educational Reform: Insights From the Biography of John Milton Gregory, John F. Wakefield.Chapter 8. More Valuable Than Even Radium: Christine Ladd-Franklin's Perspective on Intellect and the Life of the Mind, Andrea Walton.Chapter 9. Lucy Spence Morice: Working Toward a Just Society Via the Education of Citizens and Socialist Feminist Collective Action, Lynne Trethewey.Chapter 10. George S. Counts: Leading Social Reconstructionist, Bruce Romanish.Part IV. Interpreting Educators' Lives.Chapter 11. Beyond Life Writing: Reflections on Biography and Historiography, A. J. Angulo.Chapter 12. Contextualizing and Contesting National Identities: Lillian de Lissa, 1885–1967, Kay Whitehead.Chapter 13. Necessary Betrayals: Reflections on Biographical Work on a Racist Ancestor, Lucy E. Bailey.About the Editors/Authors.Index.