Research Catalog

Title

The war that wasn't : religious conflict and compromise in the common schools of New York State, 1865-1900 / Benjamin Justice.

Author

Justice, Benjamin, 1971-

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2005.

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Details

Description

xiv, 285 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Religion in the public schools > New York (State) > History > 19th century
• Church and education > New York (State) > History > 19th century
• Church and state > New York (State) > History > 19th century
• Church and education
• Church and state
• Religion in the public schools
• Religion
• Public School
• Godsdienstonderwijs
• Openbaar onderwijs
• New York (State)
• New York Staat
• New York <Staat>

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-280) and index.

Contents

Explaining the history of religion in public schools -- Democracy trumps theocracy : the civil origins of the common school system in New York -- Religion in post-bellum state and local school governance -- Politics, religion, and district schooling -- Religious use of the district schoolhouse -- Religious exercises in district schools -- Local control, religion, and urban schooling -- Religious exercises in urban schools -- Public funds for religious schools -- Explanations and implications.

ISBN

• 0791462110
• 9780791462119
• 9780791462126
• 0791462129

LCCN

2004013799

OCLC

• ocm55671340
• 55671340
• SCSB-8906128

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library