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Founding Zealots
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Founding Zealots: How Evangelicals Created America's First Public Schools, 1783-1865
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 | Founding Zealots reveals how a small group of evangelicals gave America its first public schools and explains how this story has been largely overlooked by mainstream historians. The first schools valued moral and religious education over intellectual instruction, with the Bible as their foundation. This 100,000 word manuscript is the result of 17 years of research, contains 42 illustrations, and 30 pages of end notes and bibliography, and should be especially helpful for students, librarians, and researchers. It challenges the myth of Horace Mann as the founder of the public schools while sketching the compelling lives of many of the reformers who gave children access to a free public education for the first time.
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The dramatic story of this struggle plays out over 80 years, in three distinct phases. In the first two periods, success is followed by discouraging setbacks. Finally, in the third stage the zealots, after in many cases sacrificing their health and their wealth, achieve victory. | | | The author, Thomas W. Hagedorn, is a full-time writer, following a successful 30 year career in business. This manuscript is the first of a three-part series on the role of evangelicals in American History. Mr. Hagedorn is looking for a publisher and can be reached at 513-231-9604. (Please click on PICTURE below for a little more detail.) |
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