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The Founding Fathers, Education, and "The Great Contest" : The American Philosophical Society Prize of 1797
- Title
- The Founding Fathers, Education, and "The Great Contest" : The American Philosophical Society Prize of 1797 / edited by Benjamin Justice.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Supplementary Content
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- Additional Authors
- Justice, Benjamin, 1971-
- Description
- xii, 279 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "In 1795, the nation's leading research institution offered a prize for the best essay on a system of public education for the United States. Over the next two years, the proposals they received ranged from the ridiculous, to the provocative, to the eerily familiar. This book revisits that unique moment in American history, when the founding fathers first opened the enduring debate on how best to educate the American citizenry. In ten essays, leading historians use the American Philosophical Society's education prize as a starting point for broader explorations of critical themes: gender, race, religion, public versus private, centralization versus localism, voluntary associations, higher education, and research methods. This book also publishes, for the first time, all of the original contest essays"--
- Series Statement
- Historical studies in education
- Uniform Title
- Historical studies in education.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword; Carl F. Kaestle -- 1. Introduction; Benjamin Justice -- PART I: METHODS -- 2. The Mysterious No. 3; Lisa Green -- 3. 'Raked from the Rubbish': Stylometric Authorship Attribution and the 1795 American Philosophical Society Education Contest; Eric Strome -- PART II: MEANINGS -- 4. False Start: The Failure of an Early "Race to the Top"; Campbell Scribner -- 5. "Encouraging Useful Knowledge" in the Early Republic : The Roles of State Governments and Voluntary Organizations; Nancy Beadie -- 6. Race and Schooling in Early Republican Philadelphia; Hilary Moss -- 7. Gender and Citizenship in Educational Plans in the New Republic; Margaret Nash -- 8. The Significance of the 'French School' in Early National Female Education; Kim Tolley -- 9. The Place of Religion in Early National School Plans; Benjamin Justice -- 10. The Perceived Dangers of Study Abroad, 1780-1800: Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University; Adam R. Nelson -- PART III: MATERIALS -- Essays from the American Philosophical Society Education Contest, 1795-1797 -- Introduction to the Essays: Reading the Late Eightenth Century in the Early Twenty-First; Benjamin Justice -- Remarks on Education; Samuel Harrison Smith -- An Essay on the Best System of Liberal Education; Samuel Knox -- Review of Essay No. 3 -- On Education and Public Schools; Hiram -- A Plan for the Education of Youth; Academicus -- Concerning Education in Public Schools; Hand -- Freedom, Concerning Education in Pennsylvania; Freedom.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-8294
- ISBN
- 9781137271013 (hardback)
- 1137271019 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2013004446
- OCLC
- 837143426
- Title
- The Founding Fathers, Education, and "The Great Contest" : The American Philosophical Society Prize of 1797 / edited by Benjamin Justice.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Historical studies in educationHistorical studies in education.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Justice, Benjamin, 1971- editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-8294