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Harry R. Warfel, ed., Letters of Noah Webster (1953), Homer D. Babbidge Jr., ed., Noah Webster: On Being American (1967), selections from his writings; Webster, Noah. The American Spelling Book: Containing the Rudiments of the English Language for the Use of Schools in the United States by Noah Webster 1836 edition online, the famous Blue ...
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 ]
A common school was a public school in the United States during the 19th century. Horace Mann (1796–1859) was a strong advocate for public education and the common school. In 1837, the state of Massachusetts appointed Mann as the first secretary of the State Board of Education [1] where he began a revival of common school education, the effects of which extended throughout America during the ...
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
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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)