Prologue: A Sick Man in Mexico (1889) -- Part I. Prodigal Son -- Franklin County (1820-1850) -- The Gold Rush (1850-1859) -- The Washoe Excitement (1859-1860) -- Civil War (1860-1862) -- Part II. The Gambler -- Dead Sure (1862-1866) -- The Gilded Age (1867-1871) -- The Great Diamond Hoax (1872)...

By examining the history of special education law against the emergence of the for-profit and online education movements, this paper explores the development of charter school policy from a consumer law perspective. It aims to explain why much of the current debate over test scores,...

This thesis is the first work focused directly on race relations and education in Chicago before the Great Migration. Proceeding from the dearth of sources covering black Chicago before the First World War era, I argue three main points. First, I disagree with historians who assert that because...