Schooling the Freed People

Schooling the Freed People
Author: Ronald E. Butchart
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2010-09-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807899348

Conventional wisdom holds that freedmen's education was largely the work of privileged, single white northern women motivated by evangelical beliefs and abolitionism. Backed by pathbreaking research, Ronald E. Butchart's Schooling the Freed People shatters this notion. The most comprehensive quantitative study of the origins of black education in freedom ever undertaken, this definitive book on freedmen's teachers in the South is an outstanding contribution to social history and our understanding of African American education.

For Duty and Destiny

For Duty and Destiny
Author: Lloyd A. Hunter
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Total Pages: 555
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0871953447

William Taylor Stott was a native Hoosier and an 1861 graduate of Franklin College, who later became the president who took the college from virtual bankruptcy in 1872 to its place as a leading liberal arts institution in Indiana. The story of Franklin College is the story of W. T. Stott, yet his influence was not confined to the school’s parameters. Stott was an inspirational and intellectual force in the Indiana Baptist community, and a foremost champion of small denominational colleges and of higher education in general. He also fought in the Eighteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, rising from private to captain by 1863. Stott’s diary reveals a soldier who was also a scholar.

Critical Bibliography of Religion in America, Volume IV, parts 1 and 2

Critical Bibliography of Religion in America, Volume IV, parts 1 and 2
Author: Nelson Rollin Burr
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1400877091

Volume IV (bound as two volumes) provides a critical and descriptive bibliography of religion in American life that is unequalled in any other source. Arranged topically, so that books and articles on a single subject are discussed in relation to each other, and carefully cross-referenced and indexed, it will be an indispensable tool for anyone exploring further into American religion or related subjects. Originally published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Alumni Cantabrigienses

Alumni Cantabrigienses
Author: John Venn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 605
Release: 2011-09-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1108036120

Detailed and comprehensive, the second volume of the Venns' directory, in six parts, includes all known alumni until 1900.