This richly researched and impressively argued work is a history of public schooling in Alabama in the half century following the Civil War. It engages with depth and sophistication Alabama s social and cultural life in the period that can be characterized by the three R s: Reconstruction, redemption, and racism. Alabama was a mostly rural, relatively poor, and culturally conservative state, and its schools reflected the assumptions of that society."
This richly researched and impressively argued work is a history of public schooling in Alabama in the half century following the Civil War. It engage...
