ABSTRACT

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.

part |70 pages

Students: Meaning and Culture

chapter |21 pages

"Endeavor to Improve Yourself':

The Education of White Women in the Antebellum South

chapter |20 pages

“A Good and Delicious Country”:

Free Children of Color and How They Learned to Imagine the Atlantic World in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana 1

part |23 pages

Conclusion

chapter |21 pages

Legacies of the Academy

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