Staff profile

I am a historian of twentieth century U.S. cultural politics, with a particular focus on how children's literature became a vehicle for protest on both the left and the right.I am interested in how education became a key battleground over race, gender identity, sexuality, militarism among many other core issues. This includes work on book bans, books children had access to, and how history was taught.I also have worked on Black freedom fighters in Scotland alongside Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier with digital maps and materials available here: https://ourbondageourfreedom.llc.ed.ac.uk/

 

• I am a historian of twentieth century U.S. cultural politics, with a particular focus on how children's literature became a vehicle for protest on both the left and the right.
• I am interested in how education became a key battleground over race, gender identity, sexuality, militarism among many other core issues. This includes work on book bans, books children had access to, and how history was taught.
• I also have worked on Black freedom fighters in Scotland alongside Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier with digital maps and materials available here: https://ourbondageourfreedom.llc.ed.ac.uk/

Journal Article

• Art and Storytelling on the Streets: The Council on Interracial Books for Children’s Use of African American Children’s Literature
  
  Batho, N. (2023). Art and Storytelling on the Streets: The Council on Interracial Books for Children’s Use of African American Children’s Literature. Humanities, 12(4), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.3390/h12040069
• Black Power Children's Literature: Julius Lester and Black Power
  
  Batho, N. (2021). Black Power Children’s Literature: Julius Lester and Black Power. Journal of American Studies, 55(1), 25-47. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875819000136
• “We’re A’ Jock Tamson’s Bairns”: Frederick Douglass and the People of Scotland
  
  Nick Batho. (2020). “We’re A’ Jock Tamson’s Bairns”: Frederick Douglass and the People of Scotland. Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.15367/kf.v7i1.301