Abstract
Education happens everywhere. The emergence of mass media over the past century is a prime example of the ubiquity of education— often beyond the confines of schools. Lawrence Cremin had long advocated a broader scope of investigation for educational historians. He characterized the rise of news and entertainment media in the twentieth-century United States as educative as the nation emerged as a global power.1 For Joel Spring, meanwhile, movies, radio, comic books, and television have been sites of ideological conflict over the shaping of values and tastes among American youth.2 Some historians have followed these leads by studying the didactic functions of radio, film, and television in American society—and the various struggles over the content and form of their programming.3 In addition to considering the implicitly educational aspects of these popular media, a host of other historical works has considered popular media’s explicit depictions of formal education. Such studies have examined past representations of schooling and higher education in mass magazines,4 movies,5 and popular radio.6
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