
Paul Mattingly
Professor Emeritus
Suburbanization and urbanization; community formation; education; public history.
Publications
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(London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2019)
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The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen in the Nineteenth Century(New York: New York University Press, l975)
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Education and Social Change: Themes from Ontario's PastCo-Editor with Michael B. Katz(New York: New York University Press, l975)
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“Schools and the Means of Education Shall Forever Be Encouraged”: A History of Education in the Old Northwest, 1787-1880Co-Editor with Edward W. Stephens(Athens: Ohio University Libraries, 1987)
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Suburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a Metropolitan CommunityWinner of 2002 Citation of American State and Local History Association(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)
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American Academic Cultures: A History of Higher Education(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017)
"Useful History and Black Identity," History of Education Quarterly, l0, no. 4 (Winter l970): 338-50.
"Educational Revivals in Ante-Bellum New England," History of Education Quarterly, 11, no. 1 (Spring l97l): 39-7l.
"Urban Education and Collective Scholarship," in Diane Ravitch and Ronald Goodenow (Eds.), Educating an Urban People: The New York City Experience (New York: Teachers College Press, l98l): 23l-39.
"Academia and Professional School Careers, l840-l900," Teachers College Record, 83, no. 2 (Winter l98l): 2l9-33.
"Structures Over Time: Institutional History," in Historical Inquiry in Education: A Research Agenda. Edited by John Hardin Best (Washington, D.C., American Educational Research Association Publications, l983), pp. 34-55.
"Deafness and American Social Reform," in The Encyclopedia of Deaf People and Deafness, 4 vols. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, l986)
"Workplace Autonomy and the Reforming of Teacher Education," in Critical Studies in Teacher Education: Its Folklore, Theory and Practice, edited by Thos. Popkewitz (London: Falmer Press, 1987),pp. 36-56.
"Excavating the Historic Suburb" in American Quarterly, v. 41, no. 4 (December, 1989): 689-94.
"The Suburban Canon Over Time," in Suburban Discipline Edited by Peter Lang (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997)pp. 36-51.
"The Pedagogy of Public History," Journal of American Ethnic History," with Rachel Bernstein (Fall, 1998), v. 18, no. 1: pp. 77-92
"Race, Gender and Equity Policy: The Case of the National Institute of Education," with Marilyn Tobias, to History of Education Quarterly (Winter 1999), v. 39, no 4:397-426.
"American Educational Policy in the Nineteenth Century," in Paul Finkelman (ed) Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century (NY: Charles Scribers, 2001), v. 1, pp. 395-98.
“Cities of Knowledge,” History of Education Quarterly, v 46, no 1 (Spring 2006): 100-105.
“The Suburban Discourse,” in Journal of Urban History v35, No. 4 (March 2009):418-25.
“Clark Kerr: The Unapologetic Pragmatist,” Social Science History (Winter 2012) v.36, no. 4:481-497.
“A Maryland Jesuit in Eighteenth Century Europe,” Maryland Historical Magazine v. 107, no.2 (Summer 2012)
Village, Junction, Town: Leonia, New Jersey, 1840-1960. (60 Minute videotape) Written and Directed by P. H. Mattingly. Sponsored by grant from New Jersey Historical Commission (1987)
Elizabeth, New Jersey Virtual Museum (2003-Present) http://www.visithistoricalelizabethnj.org
Click here for more information about the Elizabeth, New Jersey public history website
Dept Chair, NYU’s Dept of Cultural Foundations, SEHNAP, 1974-1981
Editor, History of Education Quarterly, 1974-1985
Co-Founder and Director, NYU’s Program in Public History, 1981-2006
Co-Founder, Trustee (1999-Present), President (2007-2014), Elizabeth (NJ)
Historical Society
Editor, NYU Press Series, Education and Socialization in American History, 1975-82
Editorial Board, History of Education, (Australia) 1980-95
Editorial Board, The Public Historian, 1999-2002
Board Member, National Council on Public History, 1983-87
Network Chair (Education) Social Science History Association, 1995-2005
National Research Council [Committee for the Basic Research on Education Chairman: James Coleman], l970-l97l.
Spencer Foundation Fellowship, National Academy of Education, l974-l979.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend [June-July], 1985.
New Jersey Historical Commission Grant, July 1986-July 1987
New York University Challenge Grant, 1990-91; NYU Emergency Challenge Grant, 1994-95; 2001-2002
2005 NYU Golden Dozen Award for Teaching Excellence
2005 NYU History Society Distinguished Teacher Award