About Abigail Kahn

Abigail (Abby) Kahn is a PhD candidate in the history of education at Stanford's Graduate School of Education. She also currently sits on the Graduate Student Council for the History of Education Society.
Abigail (Abby) Kahn is a PhD candidate in the history of education at Stanford's Graduate School of Education. She also currently sits on the Graduate Student Council for the History of Education Society.

NBN Episodes hosted by Abigail:

Andrew Stone Higgins, "Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan" (UNC Press, 2023)

November 18, 2024

Higher Education for All

Andrew Stone Higgins
Hosted by Abigail Kahn

The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college edu…

Derek Taira, "Forward without Fear: Native Hawaiians and American Education in Territorial Hawai'i, 1900-1941" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

July 27, 2024

Forward without Fear

Derek Taira
Hosted by Abigail Kahn

During Hawai‘i’s territorial period (1900–1959), Native Hawaiians resisted assimilation by refusing to replace Native culture, identity, and history w…