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Schools and Schoolmen: Chapters in Texas Education, 1870-1900

This study examines neglected aspects of the educational history of Texas. Although much emphasis has been placed on the western, frontier aspects of the state in the years after Appomattox, this study assumes that Texas remained primarily a southern state until 1900, and its economic, political, social, and educational development followed the patterns of the other ex-Confederate states as outlined by C. Vann Woodward in his Origins of the New South. This study of the educational history of Texas should aid in understanding such developments for the South as a whole. For the purposes of this study, "education" is defined in terms of institutions specifically created for the formal education of the young. Additionally, the terms "public education" and "private education" are used extensively. It is a contention of this study that the obvious differences between public and private schools in the last half of the twentieth century were not so obvious in the last half of the nineteenth, at least in Texas. Finally, an attempt has been made to confine the study to those areas of formal schooling which are today commonly called primary and secondary, although this was difficult because of the lack of definition used in naming schools, and because many of the academies, institutes, colleges, and universities of the period enrolled students from the primary level to the collegiate level.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc500814
Date05 1900
CreatorsSmith, Stewart D.
ContributorsSmallwood, J. B., Gantt, Fred, Scroggs, Jack B., 1919-, Painter, William E.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formati, 318 leaves, Text
CoverageUnited States - Texas, 1870-1900
RightsPublic, Smith, Stewart D., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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