Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727-1925

by Beadie,Nancy; Beadie,Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780415931182
• ISBN10: 0415931185
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-15
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

Academies were a prevalent form of higher schooling during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the United States. The authors in this volume look at the academy as the dominant institution of higher schooling in the United States, highlighting the academy's role in the formation of middle class social networks and culture in the mid-nineteenth century. They also reveal the significance of the academy for ethnic, religious, and racial minorities who organized independent academies in the face of exclusion and discrimination by other private and public institutions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Preface	xi
Theodore R. Sizer
Introduction
A School for Every Purpose: An Introduction to the History of Academies in the United States	3	(16)
Kim Tolley
Nancy Beadie
INSTITUTIONS: ORIGINS AND PURPOSES
Mapping the Landscape of Higher Schooling, 1727-1850	19	(25)
Kim Tolley
From Anstalt to Academy: Moravian Boarding Education for Native American Children in the Eighteenth Century	44	(20)
Amy C. Schutt
``A Triumph of Reason'': Female Education in Academies in the New Republic	64	(25)
Margaret A. Nash
STUDENTS: MEANING AND CULTURE
Internal Improvement: The Structure and Culture of Academy Expansion in New York State in the Antebellum Era, 1820-1860	89	(27)
Nancy Beadie
``Endeavor to Improve Yourself'': The Education of White Women in the Antebellum South	116	(21)
Kathryn Walbert
``A Good and Delicious Country'': Free Children of Color and How They Learned to Imagine the Atlantic World in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana	137	(24)
Mary Niall Mitchell
TEACHERS AND INSTITUTIONS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Leaving Home to Teach: The Diary of Susan Nye Hutchison, 1815-1841	161	(25)
Kim Tolley
Margaret A. Nash
``Creating an Educational Interest'': Sophia Sawyer, Teacher of the Cherokee	186	(25)
Teri L. Castelow
Alternative Pedagogy: The Rise of the Private Black Academy in Early Postbellum Mississippi, 1862-1870	211	(17)
Christopher M. Span
The Chinese Western Military Academies in the United States, 1902-1911	228	(23)
Carol Huang
SYSTEMS: COMPETITION, STRUGGLE, AND TRANSFORMATION
``Let the People Remember It'': Academies and the Rise of Public High Schools, 1865-1890	251	(33)
Sevan G. Terzian
Nancy Beadie
Betrothed to the State?: Nineteenth-Century Academies Confront the Rise of the State Normal Schools	284	(20)
Christine A. Ogren
``Many Years before the Mayflower'': Catholic Academies and the Development of Parish High Schools in the United States, 1727-1925	304	(27)
Kim Tolley
CONCLUSION
Legacies of the Academy	331	(21)
Nancy Beadie
Kim Tolley
Contributors	352	(2)
Index	354