DESCRIPTION:
Web exhibit documenting women's education from the Early Republic to the late nineteenth century.
This exhibit presents digitized selections of key primary source materials, such as letters from students and women teachers, diaries of missionary teachers, various schoolbooks, sermons, and catalogs.
These rich resources are organized around themes of:
Colonial Heritage
Female Curriculum
Student Life
Teaching
Religion, Race, Culture
Academies & Seminaries
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DATE ADDED: 2010-10-20 08:49:58
COLLECTION: Primary sources
ITEM TYPE: Website
CITATION: D. Malkmus, "Women's Education Evolves, 1790-1890: Primary Sources from the William Clements Library," in History of Schooling in the U.S., Item #20, http://burrittlibrary.org/omeka2/items/show/20 (accessed May 20, 2012).