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Webster lacked clear career plans after graduating from Yale in 1779, later writing that a liberal arts education "disqualifies a man for business". [14] He taught school briefly in Glastonbury, but due to harsh working conditions and low pay, he resigned to study law. [15]
At the end of the colonial era, Noah Webster, Benjamin Rush, and others used the educational theories of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to argue for the civic necessity of broad-based female education. Webster, in particular, started including a significant volume of content intended for girls in his best-selling schoolbooks. [49]
Essays on Education in the Early Republic is a collection of essays edited by Frederick Rudolph and published by Belknap Press in 1966. Its contents were created in the early United States after the American Revolution . [ 1 ]
The history of the United States from 1815 to 1849—also called the Middle Period, the Antebellum Era, or the Age of Jackson—involved westward expansion across the American continent, the proliferation of suffrage to nearly all white men, and the rise of the Second Party System of politics between Democrats and Whigs.
The New England Primer. The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American colonies.It became the most successful educational textbook published in 17th-century colonial United States and it became the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s.
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
Noah Webster ("American Men of Letters," 1882) A History of the United States of America Preceded By a Narrative of the Discovery and Settlement of North America and of the Events Which Led to the Independence of the Thirteen English Colonies for the Use of Schools and Academies (1884 and later editions) History of the United States (1884)
Webster, Noah (1804), A grammatical institute of the English language: comprising an easy, concise, and systematic method of education designed for the use of English schools in America. Part second, containing a plain and comprehensive grammar grounded on the true principles and idioms of the language , New York: E. Duyckinck. Pp. 116