Michael Müller’s Public School Education is a nineteenth-century examination of the philosophy and practice of American public schooling, engaging with debates about the proper role of education in a democratic republic. The work addresses questions of curriculum, religious instruction, civic formation, and the relationship between public schools and the family that were actively contested in the post-Civil War era.
Educational history is a foundational dimension of American social history, and Müller’s treatise documents one position in the debates that shaped the modern American school system. Download this free EPUB for a primary source perspective on how nineteenth-century Americans theorized public education.