NCTE Exhibits - National Council of Teachers of English Archives

NCTE celebrated its centennial anniversary in 2011. For each month that year, the Archives published an exhibit highlighting milestones in NCTE’s history. Each month had a special theme or focus and exhibited material from the NCTE archives.

Legacy versions of the exhibits can be downloaded as PDF files below.

Capture of old NCTE Centennial Website created by the University Archives in 2011.
Capture of old NCTE Centennial Website created by the University Archives in 2011.

Legacy Exhibit PDFs


January: The Revolutionary Role of Readers’ Advisory
February: The Fight Against Censorship in the Classroom
March: NCTE and the English Curriculum during World War II
April: The Founding of the Conference on College Composition and Communication
May: NCTE’s Elementary Section: Awarding Excellence in Children’s Publishing
June: NCTE’s Middle Level Section: Its Origins
July: Global Goals for English: NCTE and the Dartmouth Seminar
August: NCTE and English as a Second Language
September: Shining a Spotlight on Doublespeak
October: Advocacy for Minority Groups
November: Celebrating NCTE’s Centennial
December: Political Controversies