The Common School Awakening: Religion and the Transatlantic Roots of American Public Education

by David Komline

A statue of Horace Mann, erected in front of the Boston State House in 1863, declares him the "Father of the American Public School System." For over a century and a half, most narratives about early American education have taken this epithet as the truth. As Mann looms over the Boston Common, so he has also loomed over discussions of early American schooling. Other scholarship has emphasized economic factors as the main reason for the emergence of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190085150
• ISBN13: 9780190085155
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"