GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Editor's Introduction

While submissions to AEHJ are not restricted to focus on the conference theme, the pieces in this volume support the conference theme and present historical research that explores issues regarding systemic denial of opportunity, oppressive cultural silencing, social and political power differentials, and manifestations of othering in government and across the spectrum of public and private pre-K-higher education programs and institutions. ARTICLE OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR VOLUME 50 OF AEHJ The Article of the Year Award for the Golden Anniversary edition is conferred on Ziang Wang and J ames W. Thomas for their stellar historiography, "Chinese and American Educational Partnerships: Civil War through 1885." Taylor Masamistu traces the emergence, success, and eventual widespread influence of Florida's House Bill 1557 using a socio-historical lens in the third entry, "Florida's House Bill 1557: The third entry by Danielle Carrier, "Navigating Paradox and Power in the Nation's Capital: The John f. Cook Family and Elite Black Leadership in the District's Segregated Schools" investigates the history of a predominantly elite Black District of Columbia public school community's social-cultural history related to power, race, and class and their influence on closing the community's school.