History of UNESCO

A conference was held in 2005 titled:

“60 Years of UNESCO’s History"

The conference website provides a lot of interesting information on UNESCO's history. For example (click on the title to read the paper):

• “Alfred Zimmern, Julian Huxley and the initial leadership of UNESCO: a comparative perspective” by Richard Toye and John Toye.
• “The Philosophy of the UNESCO toward ‘intellectual and moral solidarity’” by M. C. Patricia Morales
• “Toward a World without Evil: Alfred Métraux as UNESCO Anthropologist (1946-1962)” by Edgar Krebs and Harald Prins
• “UNESCO´s Anti-Racist Agenda: Research on Race Relations in Brazil in the 1950s” by Marcos Chor Maio

Every ten years or so the UNESCO Courier publishes a special issue dealing with UNESCO's history. Those special issues are all online here!