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The Great Canon Controversy: The Battle of the Books in Higher Education. Transaction Books, 1996. 172 pp. Current, Richard Nelson. Phi Beta Kappa in American Life: The First Two Hundred Years. Oxford U. Press, 1990. 319 pp. Elsbree, Willard S. The American Teacher Evolution Of A Profession In A Democracy (1939) online
This category is for essays written or first published the decade 1790s. 1740s; 1750s; 1760s; 1770s; 1780s; 1790s; 1800s; ... 1790 essays (1 P) 1796 essays (1 P) 1797 ...
Historian Laurence Veysey in his book The Emergence of the American University (1965) explained how higher education was revolutionized in the late 19th century by the creation of the modern university. Stressing Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Clark, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, Stanford and Berkeley, Veysey showed how the newly created ...
Shapiro, Eugene Paul. Robert Hunter and the land system of colonial New York : education in Massachusetts in the 1790s : the Middlekauff-Birdsall interpretation reconsidered (thesis/dissertation). 1972. Sneddon, Leonard James. State politics in the 1790s (thesis/dissertation). 1972. Fussell, G.E. "An Englishman in America in the 1790s."
The New England Primer. The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American colonies.It became the most successful educational textbook published in 17th-century colonial United States and it became the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s.
Before and after ratification of the U.S. Constitution, newspapers everywhere featured news and essays on the development and content of the Constitution. Editorials about its strengths and weaknesses were commonplace and often sparked or fueled the debates that commonly occurred in town meetings, as well as in streets, taverns, and homes. [192]
The 1790s were highly contentious. The First Party System emerged in the contest between Hamilton and his Federalist party , and Thomas Jefferson and his Republican party. Washington and Hamilton were building a strong national government, with a broad financial base, and the support of merchants and financiers throughout the country.
W. D. Halls, in British Journal of Educational Studies, praised the "unity" in the essays. [2] Mehdi Nakosteen of the University of Colorado praised the particular arrangement and assortment of the essays. [3] He stated that the book could be improved if it had information on how other early American figures thought of education. [4]