Educating the Enemy charts the story of how two groups of immigrant students both considered enemies of a sort-children of Nazi scientists and Mexican children-fared in Cold War El Paso schools and what their experiences reveal about American schooling and political culture. In so doing, it uncovers the central role schools played in defining “foreignness” in a postwar international order, the Cold War dissonances between international tolerance and domestic segregation, and the influence of the military on American public schools.