The Golden Age of the Classics in America

The Golden Age of the Classics in America PDF Author: Carl J. Richard
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674032644
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Book Description
Richard explores the enshrinement of the classics in American antebellum culture. For the first time, knowledge of the classics extended beyond aristocratic males to the middle class, women, African Americans, and frontier settlers, but the Civil War led to a radical alteration of the educational system that steadily eroded their preeminence.