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The Oneida Institute of Science and Industry (founded 1827) was the first institution of higher education to routinely admit African-American men and provide mixed-race college-level education. [130] Oberlin College (founded 1833) was the first mainly white, degree-granting college to admit African-American students. [ 131 ]
A Documentary History of Education in the South Before 1860 (5 vol 1952); vol 5 online; Thelin, John R. ed. Essential documents in the history of American higher education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) online; Willis, George, Robert V. Bullough, and John T. Holton, eds. The American Curriculum: A Documentary History (1992)
Education in the Thirteen Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries varied considerably. Public school systems existed only in New England. In the 18th Century, the Puritan emphasis on literacy largely influenced the significantly higher literacy rate (70 percent of men) of the Thirteen Colonies, mainly New England, in comparison to Britain (40 percent of men) and France (29 percent of men).
The history of college campuses in the United States begins in 1636 with the founding of Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, then known as New Towne.Early colonial colleges, which included not only Harvard, but also College of William & Mary, Yale University and The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), were modeled after equivalent English and Scottish institutions, but ...
Anderson, James D. "Northern foundations and the shaping of southern Black rural education, 1902–1935." History of Education Quarterly 18.4 (1978): 371–396. Anderson, James D. The education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 (U of North Carolina Press, 2010). online; Bond, Horace Mann. Negro Education in Alabama: A Study in Cotton and Steel ...
The history of education in Massachusetts covers all levels of schooling in Massachusetts from colonial times to the present. It also includes the political and intellectual history of educational policies. The state was a national leader in pedagogical techniques and ideas, and in developing public schools as well as private schools and colleges.
A calculating people: The spread of numeracy in early America (U of Chicago Press, 1982) Cousins, James P. Horace Holley: Transylvania University and the Making of Liberal Education in the Early American Republic. University Press of Kentucky. (2016). Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607–1783.
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.