Leah Gordon is Lewis-Sebring Visiting Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Amherst College. A historian of the 20th-century United States, with interests in social thought, education, race, and inequality, she is the author of From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America (University of Chicago Press, 2015). Professor Gordon is currently writing “Imagining Opportunity: Education and Equality in Modern America,” a history of the idea that schools can equalize society.