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Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic

Name: Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic
Brand: University of North Carolina Press
SKU: 9781469661360
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Contributors:

Mark Boonshoft

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Education, History

Book Subcategory:

Administration, United States, History

Book Topic:

Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)

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Release Date:

2020-08-16

ISBN 13:

9781469661360

Weight:

1.01 lbs

Size:

9.21 x 6.14 x 0.67 inches

Pages:

296

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Following the American Revolution, it was a cliche that the new republic's future depended on widespread, informed citizenship. However, instead of immediately creating the common schools--accessible, elementary education--that seemed necessary to create such a citizenry, the Federalists in power founded one of the most ubiquitous but forgotten institutions of early American life: academies, privately run but state-chartered secondary schools that offered European-style education primarily for elites. By 1800, academies had become the most widely incorporated institutions besides churches and transportation projects in nearly every state.

In this book, Mark Boonshoft shows how many Americans saw the academy as a caricature of aristocratic European education and how their political reaction against the academy led to a first era of school reform in the United States, helping transform education from a tool of elite privilege into a key component of self-government. And yet the very anti-aristocratic critique that propelled democratic education was conspicuously silent on the persistence of racial and gender inequality in public schooling. By tracing the history of academies in the revolutionary era, Boonshoft offers a new understanding of political power and the origins of public education and segregation in the United States.

About the Author
Boonshoft, Mark: - Mark Boonshoft is executive director of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.