ALL IN A DAY'S WORK: The Radical Teaching Career of Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan

According to Bennett (2003), Hughan was a "pioneer in the modern American peace movement" whose career spanned decades of teaching, politics, and pacifism (1). Current events concerning book bans and teaching so-called "divisive concepts" are issues that teachers such as Hughan f...

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Published in:American educational history journal 2023-01, Vol.50 (1/2), p.63-81
Main Author: Perrotta, Katherine A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic freedom
Archives & records
Biographies
Careers
Censorship
Dissertations & theses
Economics
Education
Educational Background
Elementary Education
Elementary Schools
Family (Sociological Unit)
Libraries
Pacifism
Peace
Peace movements
Political Influences
Politics
Primary Sources
Public Schools
Social Systems
Socialism
Source materials
Teachers
Teaching
War
Womens suffrage
World War I
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Summary:According to Bennett (2003), Hughan was a "pioneer in the modern American peace movement" whose career spanned decades of teaching, politics, and pacifism (1). Current events concerning book bans and teaching so-called "divisive concepts" are issues that teachers such as Hughan faced decades ago. [...]the guiding questions that frame this study are as follows: 1. According to Kridel (2019), paramount for writing educational biography is to examine how previous authors approached their focus on which aspects of the person's life and historical context that would be written about. Since the majority of scholarship about Hughan focuses on her work with the WRL and early-20th century antiwar movement (Howlett 2006; Bennett 2003; Bennett 2001; Bennett 2000; Early 1995; Dion 1983), this study spotlights her teaching career and how the investigations she endured were part of larger debates concerning academic freedom, censorship, and freedom of speech before and after WWI. According to Early (1995), she distributed "Anti-War" buttons to boys she taught in response to President Woodrow Wilson's dispatch of American forces to Mexico in 1914.
ISSN:1535-0584