Browse Items (22 total)

Library of Congress, Get Ahead! Adult Education Classes, Library of Congress, Between 1936 and 1941

Poster encouraging adults to attend adult education classes

Federal Art Project, sponsor. By the People, For the People

Tags: Adult Education, Adults, Federal Art Project, Posters, Public Education

Joyce Eng. Co., James Benson Dudley, Library of Congress, July 19 1902

A newspaper sketch of James Benson Dudley, president of The Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race.

When James Dudley was…

Tags: African-Americans, Agricultural and Mechnical College, Education, Engineering, James Benson Dudley, Jobs

Library of Congress, Mary Emma Woolley, First Female Student to Attend Brown University, Library of Congress, c. 1903

Mary Emma Woolley in her graduating gap and gown, as first female student to attend Brown University and would later become the 11th President of…

Tags: Domestic Work System, Education, Mary Emma Woolley, Mount Holyoke, Women

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

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

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

Gabriel Moran., Paulo Freire

Freire was born in Recife, Brazil on September 19th, 1921. During this time, Brazil was in the process of industrial transformation and was…

LBJ For Kids, President Johnson Signs the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, LBJ Library, 11/4/1965

President Lyndon B Johnson signs the Elementary and Secondary Education Act at a signing ceremony. He sits besides his childhood schoolteacher Ms.…

Tags: Education, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Equal Access, Equal Opportunities, LBJ, National Curriculum, Presidents, School Funding

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

Current photo - Frank Schulenberg Old photo -Anderson Valley Historical Society, The Peachland School (present and old), Anderson Valley Historical Society, Current photo - 2012 Old photo -c. 1925

A black and white photograph of students with their teacher at the Peachland school. Though schools were still important in the 1920’s, many of them…

Tags: 1920s, One-Room School, Peachland School, Schools