1800-1860: Education

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1800-1860: Chapter Five: Education

by JACQUELINE S. REINIER

CONTENTS

CHRONOLOGY 140

OVERVIEW 147

TOPICS IN THE NEWS

Education in the Far West 150

Segregation in California Schools 151

European Experiments 152

School Reform 152

Evangelical Education 153

A Sunday School Primer 153

Higher Education in the West 154

The Founding of Oberlin College 155

Immigrants 156

A German Immigrants Experience 157

Juvenile Delinquency 157

Native Americans 159

Teachers for the West 160

HEADLINE MAKERS

Catharine Beecher 161

Daniel Drake 163

Charles Grandison Finney 164

John Swett 165

Frances Wright 166

PUBLICATIONS 168

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