HIST 150: Unlearning US History (Fall 2022)

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A pictorial celebration of an American icon takes readers on a tour of the nation's first school system, from 1750 through 1950, including some of the 450 one-room schoolhouses still in use today.
Chapter 1: The birth of the one-room schoolhouse: 1600-1775 -- Chapter 2: The evolution of the one-room schoolhouse: 1776-1889 -- Chapter 3: The golden age of the one-room schoolhouse: 1890-1940 -- Chapter 4: "The good fight": preservation and restoration -- Chapter 5: Special schools, special histories -- Chapter 6: The one-room schoolhouse today.