"The Way Many People Approached Knowledge Was Revolutionized by the Sixties Liberation Movements"

"There was a time when our most venerable historians did just this, Richard Hofstadter for instance. When Hofstadter first delved into the American history of education he wrote Merle Curti that he was struck by how much there was to be learned about American intellectual life by studying its schools. My work is in that spirit."

Andrew Hartman at U.S. Intellectual History Blog argues in favor of "putting the history of education front and center in the history of the culture wars."