The 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. Â
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.
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