Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860 by Carl F. Kaestle

Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860

American Century

Carl F. Kaestle

288 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction education history informative reflective slow-paced
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Pillars of the Republic is a pioneering study of common-school development in the years before the Civil War. Public acceptance of state school systems, Kaestle argues, was encouraged by the people's commitment to republican government, by their t...

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