The War That Wasn't
Subtitle: Religious Conflict And Compromise In The Common Schools Of New York State, 1865-1900
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: December 9, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780791462119
Subjects: Education; History of specific subjects; Religious instruction; c 1800 to c 1900; General; Church and state; Education / Teaching; New York; History; Administration - General; Church and education; 19th century; New York (State); Religion in the public schools
First sentence: In the mid-nineteenth century, Americans in the northern United States created an unrivaled system of mass education: publicly funded, democratically controlled, and largely secular "common schools."