2.6 - Networks of Empire with Brianna Lafoon

Today’s conversation picks up on the discussion of American imperial education from our last episode. I speak with Brianna Lafoon, who researches the education networks that formed within and between the mainland United States and its colonial holdings. We discuss how these networks operated, the practices and ideas they spread, and how an imperial perspective informs the history of mass schooling in the United States.Brianna Lafoon is a historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth ce...