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Jefferson’s Vision for Education, 1765–1845 (Peter Lang, 2003) Conant, James B. Thomas Jefferson and the development of American public education (Univ of California Press, 2023) o0nline; Costanzo, Joseph F. "Thomas Jefferson, Religious Education and Public Law." Journal of Public Law 8 (1959): 81+. Govain Leffel, Kelly, and Caitlin McGeever.
Arguing that universal public education was the best way to turn the nation's unruly children into disciplined, judicious republican citizens, Mann won widespread approval for building public schools from modernizers, especially among fellow Whigs. Most states adopted one version or another of the system he established in Massachusetts ...
The Founding Fathers of the United States, often simply referred to as the Founding Fathers or the Founders, were a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, oversaw the War of Independence from Great Britain, established the United States of America, and crafted a framework of government for ...
Founders Online is a research website providing free access to a digitized collection representing the papers of seven of the most influential figures in the founding of the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Among the 185,000 documents available through the website's searchable database are the papers of John Adams , Benjamin Franklin , Alexander ...
Paul Prather: Politics, culture and human nature were messy affairs in their day, constantly in flux. As they are today.
Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2], 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. [6]
The education of the southern belle: Higher education and student socialization in the antebellum South (NYU Press, 1994). Hale, Jon N. A New Kind of Youth: Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism, 1920–1975 (2022) summary; Harlan, Louis R. "The Southern Education Board and the race issue in public education."
Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts. [4] His father was a farmer without much money. Mann was the great-grandson of Samuel Man. [5]From age ten to age twenty, he had no more than six weeks' schooling during any year, [6] but he made use of the Franklin Public Library, the first public library in America.