| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Seminary For Social Power: The Classroom Becomes Woman's Sphere / Nancy Hoffman -- Pioneering the education of young women / Emma Hart Willard -- Teaching in the little red schoolhouse / Lucia B Downing -- Remedy for wrongs to women / Catherine Beecher -- Civilizing the West: letters from teachers on the frontier / Ellen P Lee and Mary S Adams -- Preparing to teach: a journal / Mary Swift -- Reminiscences of school life, and hints on teaching / Fanny Jackson-Coppin -- Schoolmarm / Anna Fuller -- 2: Noble Work Done Earnestly: Missionary Teachers In The Civil War South / Nancy Hoffman -- Teaching during the civil war: a fourteen-year-old's story / Susie King Taylor -- Missionary maidens / Mary Clemmer Ames -- From northern home to southern dangers / Maria S Waterbury -- Sisters in the service / Sarah Chase, Lucy Chase, Julia Rutledge -- Hard work every day: a New England woman's diary in Dixie / Mary Ames -- African American teacher in South Carolina / Charlotte L Forten -- Emancipation's primer: the Freedmen's book / Lydia Maria Child -- New rules for African American and white / Elizabeth Hyde Botume -- African American Oberlin student goes south / Sara Stanley -- Good life, staying on / Laura M Towne -- March of progress / Charles W Chesnutt -- 3: Teaching In The Big City: Women, The Education Bureaucracy, And Teacher Organizing / Nancy Hoffman -- True character of the New York public schools / Adele Marie Shaw -- Inquisition of the teacher, or "gum shoe tim" on the war-path / Myra Kelly -- Schoolteachers's nightmare / Mary Abigail Dodge -- First class: a reminiscence / Marian Dogherty -- Immigrant student and her teacher / Mary Antin -- My mother's principal and mine: a personal interview with Mary Agnes Dwyer / Nancy Hoffman -- Teaching in an African American boarding school / Frances O Grant -- Public schools "owned" by politicians / Amelia Allison -- Why teachers should organize / Margaret Haley -- Equal pay for equal work / Grace C Strachan -- Notes -- About the author -- Index -- Photo credits. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
Women teachers -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Hoffman, Nancy.
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| ISBN |
0912670932 |
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189179213X paperback |
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1891792156 lib. ed. |
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