Having a purpose in life - western women teachers in the 20th century, Ann Vaughn-Roberson; the intersection of home and work - rural vermont schoolteacher, 1915-1950, Margaret K.Nelson; becoming the new women - the equal rights campaigns of New York city schoolteachers, 1900-1920, Patricia Carter; African-American teachers in Buffalo - the first 100 years, Phyllis Chase; female schoolteachers as community builders, Margaret K.Nelson; religious discrimination, political revenge and teacher tenure, Joseph W.Newman; one who left and one who stayed - teacher recollections and reflections of school desegregation in New Orleans, Alan Wieder; the social status of women teachers in the early 20th century, Patricia Carter; the complex vision of female teachers and the failure of unionization in the 1930s - an oral history, Richard A.Quantz; teachers and the workplace, Richard J.Altenbaugh; interpretive method in historical research - ethnohistory reconsidered, Richard A.Quantz; the history of teaching - a social history of schooling, Richard J.Altenbaugh.