| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Ann Short Chirhart. Torches of Light: Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 334. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.

The last decade has seen an exponential growth in the amount of sound scholarship on the history of education. Not merely focused on the three R's, this new breed of educational history addresses the role of education, education reform, and teachers as active agents of change, not to mention the many studies of integration and politics. Ann Short Chirhart's book is both a study about the modernizing force that education became in the South, and an exploration of gender, race, and reform in a southern state. The book is notable in that it addresses gender, race, education policy, and state reform in one volume—no small task.

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