{"product_id":"a-second-home-sue-thomas-9780826216694","title":"A Second Home: Missouri's Early Schools","description":"\u003cp\u003e The one-room schoolhouse may be a thing of the past, but it is the foundation on which modern education rests. Sue Thomas now traces the progress of early education in Missouri, demonstrating how important early schools were in taming the frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Second Home\u003c\/i\u003e offers an in-depth and entertaining look at education in the days when pioneers had to postpone schooling for their children until they could provide shelter for their families and clear their fields for crops, while well-to-do families employed tutors or sent their children back east. Thomas tells of the earliest known English school at the Ramsay settlement near Cape Girardeau, then of the opening of a handful of schools around the time of the Louisiana Purchase--such as Benjamin Johnson's school on Sandy Creek, Christopher Schewe's school for boys when St. Louis was still a village, and the Ste. Genevieve Academy, where poor and Indian children were taught free of charge. She describes how, as communities grew, additional private schools opened--including \"dame schools,\" denominational schools, and subscription schools--until public education came into its own in the 1850s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Drawing on oral histories collected throughout the state, as well as private diaries and archival research, the book is full of firsthand accounts of what education once was like--including descriptions of the furnishings, teaching methods, and school-day activities in one-room log schools. It also includes the experiences of former slaves and free blacks following the Civil War when they were newly entitled to public education, with discussions of the contributions of John Berry Meachum, James Milton Turner, and other African American leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e With its remembrances of simpler times, \u003ci\u003eA Second Home\u003c\/i\u003e tells of community gatherings in country schools and events such as taffy pulls and spelling bees, and offers tales of stern teachers, student pranks, and schoolyard games. Accompanying illustrations illuminate family and school life in the colonial, territorial, early statehood, and post-Civil War periods. For readers who recall older family members' accounts or who are simply fascinated by the past, this is a book that will conjure images of a bygone time while opening a new window on Missouri history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sue Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826216692\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826216694\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Missouri Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.08w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2006 pg. 224","brand":"Sue Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086995763455,"sku":"9780826216694","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9762e55a-6c3a-4010-84e8-e70f14525090.jpg?v=1769097703","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-second-home-sue-thomas-9780826216694","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}