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Direct linkGroen, Mark – American Educational History Journal, 2007
Congressman George Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts introduced a bill "to establish a system of national education" on February 25, 1870. This bill, and others that followed, opened an acrimonious political debate that lasted for twenty years. The opening salvos of that debate, and the regional issues of ethnicity and religion that framed…
Descriptors: Educational History, War, Slavery, Politics of Education
