Butts, R. Freeman, A Cultural History of Western Civilization; its Social and Intellectual Foundations.
New York: McGraw Hill, 1955.
.........., A History of Education in American Culture. New York: Holt, 1953.
Church, Robert L. Education in the United States. New York: Free Press, 1976.
Commager, Henry Steele, Commonwealth of Learning. New York, Harper & Row, 1968.
Cremin, Lawrence A. Public Education. New York: Basic Books, 1976.
.........., Traditions of American Education. New York:
Basic Books, 1977.
.........., Popular Education and its Discontents. New
York: Harper & Row, 1990.
Cubberly, Ellwood P., History of Education: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948 (orig. 1902.)
Glazer, Nathan, ed., The Public Interest in Education. Cambridge, MA: Abt Books, 2984.
Good, H.G. A History of Western Education. New York: Macmillan Co., 1960.
Hart, Albert Bushnell, Commonwealth History of Massachusetts, Vols. I-Vand Vol VI, Biography. New York, The States History Co., 1927-1930.
Kazamias, Andreas M. and Byron G. Massiales, Tradition and Change: A Comparative Study. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965.
Konig, Michael F. and Martin Kaufman, Education in Massachusetts: Selected Essays. Westfield, MA: Institute for Massachusetts Studies, Westfield State College, 1989.
Martin, George H., The Evolution of the Massachusetts Public School System. New York & London: D. Appleton & Co., 1923 (orig. 1894).
Mayer, Frederick, A History of Educational Thought. Columbus, OH: C.E. Merrill Bks, 1966.
Seasholes, Bradbury, ed., Public Education in Massachusetts, Medford, MA: Lincoln Filene Center, 1965.
Tyack, David B., Robert Lowe and Elisabeth Hansol, Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785-1954. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
Wilkie, Richard W. and Jack Tagar, The Historical Atlas of Massachusetts. Amherst, University of Mass. Press, 1991.
Wise, John Edward. The History of Education; an Analytic Survey from the Age of Homer to the Present. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1964.
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND PHILOSOPHY
Boyd, William, The Education Theory of J.J. Rousseau. New York: Russell & Russell, 1963.
John Calvin, 1509-1564. Selections from His Writing. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1971.
Classics in Education Series, Lawrence A. Cremin, Ed., has over 26 books in its series on educa-tional philosophers and leaders, including: Horace Mann and the Education of Free Men (#1 in series, 1957), Dewey on Education, Thomas Jefferson on Education, Charles W. Eliot and Popular Education, The Emile of J. J. Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin on Education, John Locke on Education, and Emerson on Education; Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.
Downs, Robert B., Fredrich Froebel. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.
Evans, Richard I., Jean Piaget, The Man and His Ideas. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1973.
John Locke: Some Thoughts Concerning Education.. Yolton, John W. and Jean S. Yolton, eds.Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989.
Monroe, Will Seymour, Comenius and the Beginnings of Education Reform. New York: Arno Press, 1971.
Painter, Franklin V.N., Great Pedagogical Essays; Plato to Spencer. New York: American Book Co., 1905, repr. Arno Press, 1970.
Parker, Francis Wayland, Talks on Teaching. New York, E.L. Kellogg & Co. 1879. Material about Parker's methods are contained in Patridge, Lelia E., "The Quincy Methods" Illustrated. E. L. Kellogg & Co., 1891. Available at Quincy Public Library and Quincy Public Schools.
Rusk, Robert R. and James Scotland, Doctrines of the Great Educators. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979.
Silber, Kate, Pestalozzi, The Man and His Work. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, rev. ed. 1973.
Woody, Thomas, ed., Educational Views of Benjamin Franklin. New York: McGraw Hill Book Co., 1931. See other works on educational philosophy by same author.
Bradford, William, Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1647. New York: Random House, 1981.
Cotton, John, Spiritual Milk for Babes. London, 1662. The Houghton Library, Harvard University Cambridge.
Cremin, Lawrence A, The Colonial Experience, 1607-1783. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
Cronon, William, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill & Wang, 1983.
Davis, Hadassah, ed., What Cheer Netop! Selections from Roger Williams' A Key into the Language of America (1643) with modern notes for young people. Bristol, RI: Haffenreffer Museum, Brown University, 1986.
Drake, Samuel G., The Witchcraft Delusion in New England. New York: Ben Franklin Press, 1970.
Gookin, Daniel. Historical Collections of the Indians of New England. New York: Arno Press, 1972.
Hamilton, Edward P., The French and Indian Wars. New York Doubleday & Co., 1962.
Larrabee, Eric,Colonial Massachusetts: A History. Boston:
Little Brown, 1979.
(also for 18th century)
Mather, Cotton, Magnolia Christi Americana, Kenneth S. Murdock ed., Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1977.
Cotton Mather On Witchcraft. Being the Wonders of the Invisible World. First published at Boston 1692, repr. New York: Dorset Press, 1991.
New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century. Fairbanks, Jonathan L. and Robert F. Trent, eds., Vols. I-III, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1982.
New England Primer. Orig. 1639 England, earliest edition in Mass. 1690. Many editions thereafter. Reprinted in Ford and Bowker, Classics in Education series, 1934.
Peters, Russell M. The Wampanoags of Mashpee. Mashpee, MA: Indian Spiritual and Training Council, 1987.
Puglisi, Michael J., Puritans Besieged: The Legacies of King Philip's War in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991.
Robinson, Barbara, Native American Sourcebook. Concord, MA: Concord Museum, 1988.
Rutman, Darrett B., Winthrop's Boston. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1965.
Seybolt, Robert Francis, The Public Schools of Colonial Boston, 1635-1775. New York: Arno Press, 1969. From American Education - Men, Ideas and Institutions Series, L. Cremin, ed.
........., The Private Schools of Colonial Boston. New York: Arno Press. (both also for 18th century).
The Tercentenary: Material Suggested for Use in the Schools: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Education, 1930, #1.
Wilbur, Keith C., The New England Indians. Chester, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 1978.
Windsor, Justin, Memorial History of Boston, Vols.I-IV. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1881. (see also for 18th, 19th centuries)
See the resource listing for Plimoth Plantation materials under Museums; for Massachusetts Archives materials on 17th century laws, see also Libraries, Archives listing.
A "Century of Population Growth." Washington Government Printing Office, 1909. Available for viewing at the Massachusetts Archives.
Benton, J.H. Early Census Making In Massachusetts 1643-1765. Published 1905. Available for viewing at the Massachusetts Archives.
Piersen, William D., Black Yankees. Amherst, MA: University of Mass. Press, 1988.
Brown, Richard E., Revolutionary Politics in Massachusetts; the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Towns, 1772-1774. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.
........., Knowledge is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865. New York: Oxford, 1989.
Earle, Alice Morse, Home and Child Life in Colonial Days. New York: Macmillan, 1969.
........, Child Life in Colonial Days. Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publishers, 1975.
Franklin, Benjamin, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. New York, Harper & Row, 1964.
........., Poor Richards Almanack. New York: McKay, 1970.
Freeman, Ruth S. Yesterday's Schools. North Carolina: Century House Pub., 1962.
Hans, Nicholas Adolph, New Trends in Education in the 18th Century. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1951.
Heads of Families in Massachusetts 1790. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD 1973.
Laska, Vera O. Remember The Ladies. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bicentennial Commission. Pub. May 1976
Leith, James A. ed. Facets of Education in the 18th Century. Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institute, Oxford, 1977.
Lockridge, Kenneth A., Literacy in Colonial New England. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 1974.
Morison, Samuel Eliot, ed. The Development of Harvard University since the Inauguration of President Eliot, 1869-1929. Cambridge, M.A. : Harvard Univeristy Press, 1930.
.........., Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal Constitution. 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1965.
Smith, Barbara Clark, After the Revolution: The Smithsonian History of Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985
Szatsmary, David P., Shays' Rebellion - The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection. Amherst: The University of Mass. Press, 1980.
See also Resource listings for museums, archives for Revolutionary period research, field sites.
Burton, Warren, "The District School as it Was." n.d. Old Sturbridge Village Bookstore and Library.
Carrol, Rob, "America's First Public High School" (English High School Boston) from A Nation of Learners, Health Education and Welfare Department, 1976.
Carter, James Gordon, "The Schools of Massachusetts In 1824." Boston: Directors of the Old South Meeting House, leaflet. #135.
Catholic Education in America., Classics in Education Series, Lawrence A. Cremin, ed., Columbia University Press, New York.
Cremin, Lawrence A., The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education. 1876-1957. New York: Knopf, 1961.
Dazell, Robert F., Enterprising Elite: The Boston Associates and the World They Made. Cambridge MA: 1987.
Dictionary of Literary Biography :American Renaissance in New England. Vol. 1, Joel Myerson ed., Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978.
Downs, Robert Bingham, Horace Mann: Champion of Public Schools. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1974.
Fennelly, C., Town Schooling in Early New England 1790-1840. Old Sturbridge Village, 1969.
Fraser, James W., ed., From Common Schools to Magnet Schools. Boston Public Library, 1979. See "Boston Catholics and the School Question, 1825-1907." Good also for 20th century issues.
Freeman, Ruth S., Yesterday Schools. Century House, Watkins Glen, NC, 1962.
Glenn, Charles Leslie, The Myth of the Common School. Amherst: University of Mass. Press, 1988.
Handlin, Oscar, The Uprooted. Boston, Little, Brown, 1973.
.........,Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880; AStudy in Acculturation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959.
.........,Facing Life: Youth and the Family in American History. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971.
Hareven, Tamara K. Family Time and Industrial Time. New York: 1982.
Hayden, Robert C., The African Meeting House in Boston: A Celebration of History. Museum of Afro American History, Boston, 1987.
Horton, James Oliver and Lois E. Horton, Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle
in the Antebellum North. Holmes & Meier, 1979.
Johnson, Clifton. Old Time Schools and School Books. orig.Macmillan 1893, rev. 1904. Repr. New York: Dover Publications, 1963.
Jorgenson, Lloyd P., The State and the Non-Public School, 1825-1925. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987.
Kaestle, Carl F., Education and Social Change in 19th Century Massachusetts. Cambridge, England and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
.........., Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading Since 1880. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1991.
Kaestle, Carl and Eric Foner, Pillars of the Republic: Common schools and American Society, 1780-1860. New York: Hill & Wang, 1983.
Katz, Michael, The Irony of Early School Reform. Boston: Beacon Press, 1968.
Larcom, Lucy, A New England Girlhood. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1986.
Lazerson, Marvin, Origins of Urban School Public Education in Massachusetts, 1890-1915. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Messerlie, Jonathan , Horace Mann; A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1972.
Monroe, Will S., History of the Progressive Movement in the United States. orig. 1907. Reprinted in American Education: Its Men, Ideas and Institutions. ed. L. Cremin. New York: Arno Press, 1969. See also for 20th century.
Norton, Arthur O. The Journals of Cyrus Pierce And Mary Swift. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926.
Parsons, William S. and Margaret Drew. The African Meeting{House in Boston. A Sourcebook. The Museum of Afro American History, Boston, 2nd ed., 1990.
Pioneers in Education, A History of Framingham State College. Celebrating 150 years of Excellence in Education 1839-1989, Framingham, MA, 1989.
Reese, William J. Power and the Promise of School Reform: Grassroots Movements during the Progressive Era. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. See also for 20h century.
Schultz, Stanley K., The Culture Factory: Boston Public Schools, 1790-1860. NY: Oxford, 1973.
Seaburg, Carl, Boston Observed. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971.
Sloane, Eric., Diary of an Early American Boy, Noah Blake, 1805. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1962.
Tharp, Louise Hall, Until Victory; Horace Mann and Mary Peabody. Boston: Little, Brown, 1953.
Mass. Department of Education reports can be viewed at the Mass. Archives. See listing for Museum of American Textile History for additional industrial era materials.
Altbach, Philip G., Gail P. Kelly and Lois Weis, Excellence in Education: Perspectives on Policy and Practice. Buffalo, NY: Promoteheus Books, 1985.
"America 2000: an Educational Strategy." US Department of Education, Washington, DC, 1991.
A Nation of Learners. HEW. US Office of Education. Government Printing Office, 1976.
A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century: The Report of the Task Force on Teaching as a Profession. Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy, May 1986. Washington DC: The Forum, 1986.
Austin, Gilbert R.and H. Garber, ed., Research on Exemplary Schools. Orlando, FL: Academic Press, 1985.
Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis. Schooling in Capitalist America: Education Reform and the Contradiction of Economic Life. New York: Basic Books, 1976.
Boyer, Ernest L., Ready to Learn: A Mandate for the Nation. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton University Press, 1991.
Burke, Fred G., Public Education: Who's in Charge? New York: Praeger, 1990.
Coleman, James. Report on Equality of Education Opportunities . 1966.
Conant, James Bryant, Education and Liberty: the Role of the Schools in a Modern Democracy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. See other titles by same author.
Cremin, Lawrence A., American Education: The Metropolitan Experience, 1876-1980. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
Fantini, Mario D., Regaining Excellence in Education. Columbus OH: Merrill Pub. Col, 1986.
Flesch, Rudolf, Why Johnny Can't Read. orig. 1955; Perennial Library edition, New York: Harper & Row, 1986
Holt, John, How Children Fail. orig. 1962, reprint Delacorte Press, 1982. See other titles by same author.
Kagan, Sharon L. and Edward F. Zigler, Early Schooling: The National Debate. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.
Klein, M. Frances, The Politics of Curriculum Decision-Making: Issues in Centralizing the Curriculum. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.
Lukas, J. Anthony, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families. New York: Random House, 1985.
Massachusetts Department of Education, "Facts on Special Education in Massachusetts", Quincy, 1988. (See resource listing for new address)
Meier, Kenneth, Joseph Stewart Jr. and Robert E. England, Race, Class and Education: The Politics of Second Generation Discrimination. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
Millard, Richard M., Today's Myths and Tomorrow's Realities: Overcoming Obstacles to Academic Leadership in the 21st Century. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Pub., 1991.
Morison, Samuel Eliot, ed., The Development of Harvard University since the Inauguration of President Eliot, 1869-1929. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930.
National Society for the Study of Education, Education and Work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
........., Educational Leadership and Changing Contexts of Families, Communities and Schools., eds. Brad Mitchell and Lavern L. Cunningham, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Ravitch, Diane, The Schools We Deserve: Reflections on the Educational Crises of our Times. New York: Basic Books, 1985. See other books by same author.
"Reports of Racial Imbalance in the Boston Public Schools," Boston Advisory Committee to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1965 and thereafter.
Sewell, Gilbert T., Necessary Lessons: Decline and Renewal in American Schools. New York: Free Press, 1983.
Teele, James E., Evaluating School Busing. New York: Praeger, 1973.
"The Federal role in improving elementary and secondary education." Washington DC: Congress of the US, Congressional Budget Office, 1993.
Tyack, David B. et al, Public Schools in Hard Times: The Great Depression and Recent Years. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Willie, Charles V. and Inabeth Miller eds., Social Goals and Education Reform: American Schools in the 20th Century. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
See listing on Museum of Afro American History for racial imbalance issues; teachers colleges and universities with education departments have good libraries of 20th century books and reports.