In this well-researched and absorbing account, Paul Theobald chronicles the history of the one-room country schools that were spread throughout the rural Midwest during the nineteenth and early twenti
Education Now is a clear and persuasive account of the way in which popular seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theories about the human condition formed the basis for America's choices in the realms
Theobald (urban and rural education, Buffalo State College) argues that most American education is wrongly focused on merely preparing students for their economic occupation when they grow up, when th
Reaching all the way back to the classical and medieval past, Teaching the Commons chronicles ideas and resulting policies that have shaped contemporary rural life and living in much of the industrial
These stark and stunning photographs of these small, neat one-room buildings - once the social and educational center of rural life, now either abandoned or restored to an artificial quaintness - enc
Readers everywhere fell for Elizabeth Corey, the irrepressible, independent, and fearless Bachelor Bess, whose letters home to Iowa gave us a firsthand account of her adventures on a South Dakota home
