A Second Home
Subtitle: Missouri's Early Schools (Missouri Heritage Readers)
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: August 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780826216694
Subjects: Primary / junior schools; c 1800 to c 1900; Education / Teaching; History: American; History; United States - State & Local - South; United States - State & Local - General; Education; Missouri; Schools
Description: "History of early schools in Missouri, including accounts of teaching materials and methods and schoolday activities. Describes schools in frontier settlements such as Ste. Genevieve. Discusses the beginnings of public education in the 1850s and the contributions of John Berry Meachum, James Milton Turner, and other African American leaders"--Provided by publisher.