University of Michigan School of Education, Ann Arbor, 1930s This is what happened. Gordon and his wife, Helen, returned to the U.S. ...

End of the Trail  by James Earle Fraser; monumental plaster cast sculpture was commissioned for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Expo...

Willard W. Beatty, early 1920s It has long interested me that Willard W. Beatty was one of the few prominent progressive educators w...

Willard W. Beatty, age 15 The child’s parents, Mabel and William Beatty, met at the University of California-Berkeley during the ea...

Cumberland Street in Marshall, Illinois, circa 1900; boyhood home of Ignatius Donnelly Taubeneck Leaving the farm, heading out – in ...

Josephine Walcott to Linda de Force Gordon, November 3, 1878 (Bancroft Library, University of California-Berkeley) It’s not surprisi...

"Winner of a prize in the Mitchell Hill Owners Hill Climbing Contest and Scene at Start," San Francisco Call , July 4, 1908 ...

Willard W. Beatty, 1936 Bronxville High School yearbook Rebecca Josephine Butterfield Walcott came roaring out of the internet bedec...