Maxwell

Joint PhD candidate @UWHistoryDept and @UWMadisonEPS. Writing a dissertation about Junior Achievement and youth entrepreneurial education. Former teacher.

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

My article in @HistEdQuarterly on politics and the creation of the German language course in the Milwaukee Public Schools in the mid-late 19th century is now available: https://t.co/08rYQDpT35

I like to think that it offers lessons for related contemporary political issues.

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

@freedaaron Do we think this is a viable trajectory for an historian.....?

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

Brookline, I miss you.

[Politics & Education @PoliticsAndEd]

A high school built over a light rail line in Brookline, Mass. This is what urbanism should look like.

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

Very much enjoyed Rogue Elephant and the recent podcast circuit conversations. But are U.S. political parties best characterized by their weakness to insurgency or rather in their absolute strength in fending off durable political competitors?

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

Growing up, I don't recall ever even meeting someone with a PhD until my first, and only, college tour during my senior year of high school.

[The Missing Data Depot @data_depot]

It's not surprising that professors come from highly educated families. Yet the extent to which the professoriate comes from families w/ a PhD-holding mother or father is striking.

While <1% of Americans have a PhD, 22% of university faculty members have a parent with a Ph.D.

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

Congratulations, Erik. Erik's work has been hugely influential on my own. He showed me that the history I'm working on about Junior Achievement and entrepreneurial education is not only possible but also important. Glad to see he is getting the recognition he deserves.

[Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker]

I am extremely excited to share that my book Make Your Own Job received the 2026 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians. It is a real honor. https://t.co/N7uPUKGboy

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

@dbessner footnote 8 is beautiful

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

The Discourse™️ on the Compact piece is stimulating, but I haven’t seen many people talk about the culling process that happens well before the job market stage. Plenty to unpack about who attends what institutions and why and how funding packages might impact scholarly quality.

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

@benchansfield Appleby's "The Vexed Story of Capitalism" to generate discussion

Jenkins and Leroy's "The Old History of Capitalism" in their edited volume for an accessible overview

Sklansky's "Labor, Money, and the Financial Turn in the History of Capitalism" for changing trends in NHoC

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

@Tyler_A_Harper If we concede your premise, how do you think institutions would respond differently to the proliferation of AI if education was about content? The broader embrace of progressive pedagogy in the 21st c. was partly a reaction to the technological availability of content knowledge.

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

If any scholars or otherwise are interested in reading the article but don't have access, DM me! Many other scholars have done excellent research on progressive education and Americanization, and I hope my case study of the Milwaukee Public Schools offers something of interest.

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

I'm dying to know who reviewer 2 was for my HEQ piece on Milwaukee's late 1860's district consolidation and the effort to Americanize the German population via a German language course. Their criticism invariably shaped the article. You can read it here: https://t.co/08rYQDpldx

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

@mnathantanner @HistEdQuarterly Thank you, Nathan! And a late congratulations on the job and on your article in the latest issue. Looking forward to reading as well. Critiques and comments on my piece warmly welcomed!

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

My article in @HistEdQuarterly on politics and the creation of the German language course in the Milwaukee Public Schools in the mid-late 19th century is now available: https://t.co/08rYQDpT35

I like to think that it offers lessons for related contemporary political issues.

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

@HistEdQuarterly I'd welcome any thoughts people have on my first published article, which, admittedly, has fallen far outside the purview of my current work save for the cultural emphasis. If anyone would like access to the article, feel free to DM me!

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

@HistEdQuarterly The board was able to draw large swaths of German students out of the private and parochial schools, many of which taught primarily in German. Foreign language learning, district leaders argued, was not incompatible with Americanization. Rather, it was central to it.

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

There’s a beautiful irony in the fact that Junior Achievement’s first Manhattan office occupied the same building that now houses @CunySLU.

[Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker]

Some people have suggested to me that the entrepreneurial work ethic may be in the midst of attenuating but for some reason I have my doubts

[Maxwell @mvxgreenberg]

As Erik has shown in his wonderful essay “The Folly of Academic Self-Help,” and as I’m working on demonstrating in my dissertation, perhaps no institution has been more accommodating to the entrepreneurial work ethic than formal education. The whole way up.

[Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker]

Some people have suggested to me that the entrepreneurial work ethic may be in the midst of attenuating but for some reason I have my doubts