Contents of “Schooldays in New England: 1650–1900”

front cover of “Schooldays in New England” with a photograph of young women in a physical education class around 1900

“Classes, Forms and Divisions in Boston’s Pre-Revolutionary Schools” by J.L. Bell

“Rendering Rhetoric: Constructing Congregational Girlhood in the Classroom” by Jane E. Shattuck

“From Samplers to Social Justice: Quaker Female Education in Rhode Island, 1750–1850” by Lynne Anderson

“Thompson Island: An Island Republic of Youth” by Paul J. Hutchinson

“‘A symmetrical, harmonious, substantial character’: Schools for Abolitionist Children in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New England” by Elizabeth C. Stevens

“Schooling for Public Life: Hope and Frustration at the New England School for the Blind, 1832–1867” by James W. Trent

“‘Everything about it is important’: Architecture, Furniture, and Health in Antebellum District Schoolhouse Reform” by Rebecca R. Noel

“The Audiences for School Architecture: Projecting Civic Virtue in Boston, 1847–1860” by Rachel Remmel

“The New England Primer: An African American Artifact?” by Caitlin Galante-DeAngelis Hopkins

“Intellect and Abolition: Reconstructing the Curriculum at Prudence Crandall’s  Academy for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color” by Jennifer Rycenga

“‘Sent here to improve our immortal minds’: Pen Pictures of School and Schooling in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century New England and New York” by Betsy Garrett Widmer

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