The War That Wasn't

The War That Wasn't
Author: Benjamin Justice
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0791484467

Finalist for the 2006 History of Education Society's Outstanding Book Award Winner of the 2005 Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the New York State Archives presented by the Board of Regents and the New York State Archives Historians of religion and public schooling often focus on conflict and Bible Wars, pitting Catholics and Protestants against one another in palpitating narratives of the embattled development of American public schooling. The War That Wasn't tells a different story, arguing that in nineteenth-century New York State a civil system of democratic, local control led to adjustments and compromises far more than discord and bitter conflict. In the decades after the Civil War, New Yorkers from rural, one-room schools to big city districts hammered out a variety of ways to reconcile public education and religious diversity. This book recounts their stories in delightful and compelling detail. The common school system of New York State managed to keep the peace during a time of religious and ethnic pluralism, before sweeping educational reforms ended many of these compromises by the turn of the twentieth century.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series

Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Total Pages: 2334
Release: 1929
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 25 : Nos. 1-121 (March - December, 1928)

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of Education
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1100
Release: 1930
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Prep School Cowboys

Prep School Cowboys
Author: Melissa Bingmann
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015
Genre: Cowboys
ISBN: 0826355439

"An engaging, well-researched account of the private schools that proliferated in the interwar years in the American Southwest. Bingmann does an excellent job of situating these schools in the context of the history of American education."--Lynn Dumenil, author of The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s