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Review Essay: Recent Additions to the Rosenwald Historiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jayne R. Beilke
Jayne R. Beilke*
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Department of Educational Studies at Ball State University in Muncie, IN
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This essay reviews two books on Julius Rosenwald and the Rosenwald Fund and places them within the historiography of the Fund. Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South, is a biography written by Peter M. Ascoli. The book entitled The Rosenwald Schools of the American South written by Mary S. Hoffschwelle is a study of the rural school-building program with which the Fund is most closely associated. Ascoli's biography joins three other new biographies of early philanthropists that were published in 2006: David Nasaw's Andrew Carnegie; Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America by Ruth R. Crocker; and David Cannadine's Mellon: An American Life (Katz, p. B6).

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , November 2011 , pp. 544 - 553
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Copyright © 2011 History of Education Society 

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