Outline of the System of Education at the Round Hill School
Author : Joseph Green Cogswell
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 1831
Category : Boarding schools
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Author : Joseph Green Cogswell
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 1831
Category : Boarding schools
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Cambridge (Mass.)
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Author : David Komline
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0190085177
A statue of Horace Mann, erected in front of the Boston State House in 1863, declares him the "Father of the American Public School System." For over a century and a half, most narratives about early American education have taken this epithet as the truth. As Mann looms over the Boston Common, so he has also loomed over discussions of early American schooling. Other scholarship has emphasized economic factors as the main reason for the emergence of public schools. The Common School Awakening offers a new narrative about the rise of public schools in America that counters these conceptions. In this book, David Komline explains how a broad and distinctly American religious consensus emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, allowing people from across the religious spectrum to cooperate in systematizing and professionalizing America's schools in an effort to Christianize the country. At the height of this movement, several states introduced state-sponsored teacher training colleges and concentrated government oversight of schools in offices such as the one held by Mann. Shortly thereafter, the religious consensus that had served as the foundation for this common school system disintegrated. But the system itself remained, the legacy of not just one man, but of a whole network of reformers who put into motion a transatlantic and transdenominational religious movement - the "Common School Awakening."
Author : James McLachlan
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Boarding schools
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Author : Jean H. Baker
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Page : 374 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
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Page : 1376 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Education
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Author : United States. Office of Education
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Page : 1386 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 1899
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Author : United States. Bureau of Education
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Page : 1394 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Education
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Page : 646 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 1918
Category : English philology
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Author : Mark Peterson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0691209170
In the vaunted annals of America's founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary "city upon a hill" and the "cradle of liberty" for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired clich s, The City-State of Boston highlights Boston's overlooked past as an autonomous city-state, and in doing so, offers a pathbreaking and brilliant new history of early America. Following Boston's development over three centuries, Mark Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain's Stuart monarchs and how--through its bargain with slavery and ratification of the Constitution - it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States. Drawing from vast archives, and featuring unfamiliar alongside well-known figures, such as John Winthrop, Cotton Mather, and John Adams, Peterson explores Boston's origins in sixteenth-century utopian ideals, its founding and expansion into the hinterland of New England, and the growth of its distinctive political economy, with ties to the West Indies and southern Europe. By the 1700s, Boston was at full strength, with wide Atlantic trading circuits and cultural ties, both within and beyond Britain's empire. After the cataclysmic Revolutionary War, "Bostoners" aimed to negotiate a relationship with the American confederation, but through the next century, the new United States unraveled Boston's regional reign. The fateful decision to ratify the Constitution undercut its power, as Southern planters and slave owners dominated national politics and corroded the city-state's vision of a common good for all. Peeling away the layers of myth surrounding a revered city, The City-State of Boston offers a startlingly fresh understanding of America's history.