Briefly Noted

William J. Reese. The Power and Promise of School Reform: Grassroots Movements During the Progressive Era. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002. 352pp.
Fritz Ringer (ed.). Toward a Social History of Knowledge: Collected Essays. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. 208pp.
William H. Schubert, Ann Lynn Lopez Schubert, Thomas P. Thomas, and Wayne M. Carroll, Curriculum Books: The First Hundred Years , 2nd ed. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 608pp.
Thomas F. Ruffin, with Jo Jackson and Mary J. Hebert. Under Stately Oaks: A Pictorial History of LSU. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. 162pp.
Eric Darner and Marilyn C. Barrick. Discovery by Design: The Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of British Columbia, Origins and History: 1907–2001. Vancouver: The Mechanical Engineering Department, University of British Columbia, 2002. 226pp.
David J. Staley. Computers, Visualization, and History: How New Technology Will Transform Our Understanding of the Past. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2002. 174pp.