03400nam 2200733 a 450 991045686450332120200520144314.01-282-35181-897866123518150-300-15627-810.12987/9780300156270(CKB)2430000000010727(StDuBDS)AH23050106(SSID)ssj0000309639(PQKBManifestationID)11282528(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000309639(PQKBWorkID)10283814(PQKB)11728970(MiAaPQ)EBC3420474(DE-B1597)486402(OCoLC)1024005481(OCoLC)1029821676(OCoLC)1032692690(OCoLC)1037979905(OCoLC)1041972948(OCoLC)1046605440(OCoLC)1047005310(OCoLC)1049623743(OCoLC)1054878877(DE-B1597)9780300156270(PPN)193900009(Au-PeEL)EBL3420474(CaPaEBR)ebr10343521(CaONFJC)MIL235181(OCoLC)923593187(EXLCZ)99243000000001072720080505d2009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrSmall wonder[electronic resource] the little red schoolhouse in history and memory /Jonathan ZimmermanNew Haven Yale University Pressc20091 online resource (256 p.) Icons of AmericaSeries from jacket.0-300-12326-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One History -- Part two Memory -- Conclusion Dear Old Golden Rule Days? -- Notes -- IndexThe little red schoolhouse has all but disappeared in the United States, but its importance in national memory remains unshakable. This engaging book examines the history of the one-room school and how successive generations of Americans have remembered-and just as often misremembered-this powerful national icon. Drawing on a rich range of sources, from firsthand accounts to poems, songs, and films, Jonathan Zimmerman traces the evolution of attitudes toward the little red schoolhouse from the late nineteenth century to the present day. At times it was celebrated as a symbol of lost rural virtues or America's democratic heritage; at others it was denounced as the epitome of inefficiency and substandard academics. And because the one-room school has been a useful emblem for liberal, conservative, and other agendas, the truth of its history has sometimes been stretched. Yet the idyllic image of the schoolhouse still unites Americans. For more than a century, it has embodied the nation's best aspirations and-especially-its continuing faith in education itself.Icons of America.School buildingsSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.School buildingsSocial aspectsHistory.371.6/20973Zimmerman Jonathan1961-1048398MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456864503321Small wonder2476752UNINA