Learning the Left

Learning the Left examines the ways in which young people and adults learned(and continue to learn) the tenets of liberal politics in the United States throughthe popular media and the arts from the turn of the twentieth century to thepresent. This collection of essays foregrounds mass culture as an educationalsite; it is hoped that this focus on the history of the civic functions of the popularmedia and arts will begin a much-needed conversation among a variety ofscholars notably historians of education.