Provides a brief description of what school was like on the American frontier, discussing the buildings, teachers, supplies, and challenges for a formal educati

If countless books and movies are to be believed, America’s Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settler

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education that brings the lessons of the past to bear on the dilemmas we face to

Tells the author's story of how she and her husband ventured to Alaska during the Depression to teach and work with the Eskimos

Stephens, the daughter of the schoolteacher, details the experiences and challenges faced by Helen Hussman Morris as a teacher in rural Oklahoma during the Depr