Browse Items (22 total)

Winslow Homer, The Country School, Saint Louis Art Museum, 1871

I touch the future. I teach. Christa McAuliffe, teacher and NASA space shuttle crew member Soon after the American Revolution, our founders argued…

Tags: 18th Century, American Revolution, Country School, Public Education, Public Schools

Warren's (Firm), Amos Bronson Alcott, Teacher, New York Public Library, Unknown

A photograph of Amos Bronson Alcott, a teacher whose controversial methods would better improve the school system. When Alcott decided the life of a…

Tags: Amos Bronson Alcott, Public Education, School System, Teaching, Temple School

Walter Albertin, Albert Shanker, President of U.F.T., Library of Congress, 1965

Albert Shanker, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, is holding the report that would stop the threat of striking teachers. When Albert…

Tags: Albert Shanker, Labor, Public Education, Strikes, Teaching, UFT, Unions

Unknown, Nannie Burroughs, Woman's National Baptist Convention, Library of Congress, 1905-1915

Nannie Burroughs leading the Woman’s National Baptist Convention with other members of the convention. Nannie Burroughs was an African-American…

Tags: African-Americans, Nannie Burroughs, Training School for Women and Girls, Wages, Women, Women's National Baptist Convention

Unknown, Barnas Sears, Brown University, Before 1880

"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which,…

Tags: American South, Barnas Sears, Civil War, Peabody Education Fund, Schools, South

The Stamford Historical Society, New England Primer Part One, The Stamford Historical Society, 1990

Pages from the most popular and used textbook of the 18th century, the New England Primer. Using illustrations, rhyme, and often biblical context,…

Tags: 18th Century, ABCs, American Revolution, Colonies, Education, Equal Opportunity, New England Primer

The Library of Congress, Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, First Female Superintendent, The Library of Congress, 1910

I believe in it ..[equal suffrage for women]. I have not been an active suffragist because I have kept so busily to my own line, but I realize that,…

Tags: Chicago, Ella Flagg Young, Female Superintended, Illinois, National Education Association, Women, Women's Suffrage

Paul Reverse Sr., A Westerly View of the Colleges in Cambridge New England, Yale University Art Gallery, 1767

An engraving of Harvard College.

Harvard University was the first college in the U.S., and was also the first to be used as a corporation. It was…

Tags: Civil War, Colleges, Harvard, Harvard University, New England, Schools

Ohio House of Representatives, Benjmain W. Arnett, Ohio House of Representatives, Circa 1886

A photograph of Benjamin W. Arnett, an African-American minister, elected official, and educator. Though Benjamin W. Arnett was born a free man, he…

Tags: African-American, Benjamin W. Arnett, Civil Rights, Education, Minister, Ohio

Memoria Press, Boston Latin School, Memoria Press, 1800s

A historic sketch of what the Boston Latin School first looked like, before years of moving and renovation changed it to what it is today. The Boston…

Tags: 17th Century, Boston Latin School, Colonies, Public Education, Schools, United States