Click on the title at the beginning of a section to see a summary of that topic. Click on a picture to see an enlargement of it.

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Horace Mann

Horace Mann

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Mary Lyon, Pioneer of Equal Education for Women. This link was prepared by Mount Holyoke College (which was founded by Mary Lyon).

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The Catholic Controversy

Anti-Catholic bias in a textbook

Archbishop John Hughes of New York

A political cartoon by Thomas Nast

Another Thomas Nast "Nasty" cartoon

A meeting of the Ku Klux Klan (which opposed African Americans, Catholics, and foreign-born Americans)

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The McGuffey Readers

Cover from McGuffey's Fourth Reader

A lesson from a McGuffey Reader

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Compulsory Attendance

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African American Education

Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. DuBois

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The Morrill Act of 1862

Justin S. Morrill

A classroom in a "cow college"

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The National Education Association (NEA)

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The Kalamazoo Case

The Kalamazoo, Michigan, High School

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Normal Schools

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Discipline in a Common-school Era Classroom

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The Development of the Kindergarten

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