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• Child Life in Colonial Days (New York and London: Macmillan, 1915), by Alice Morse Earle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Colonial Children, ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Blanche Evans Hazard (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

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• Child Life in Colonial Days (New York and London: Macmillan, 1915), by Alice Morse Earle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Colonial Children, ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Blanche Evans Hazard (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000 (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel, contrib. by Jeffrey P. Baker, Jeffrey P. Brosco, Leon Eisenberg, Hughes Evans, John Christopher Feudtner, Janet Lynne Golden, Richard A. Meckel, Heather Munro Prescott, and Russell Viner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Underground History of American Education (2003), by John Taylor Gatto (HTML at johntaylorgatto.com)
• Yesterday's Schools: A Looking Glass for Teachers of Today (Watkins Glen, NY: Century House, c1962), by Ruth S. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Origins and Development of Elementary-School Science (Columbia doctoral dissertation; Chicago et al.: Scott, Foresman and Co., c1941), by Orra Ervin Underhill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• American Education: Its Principles and Elements, by Edward Deering Mansfield (page images at MOA)

• Education and the State, by John Bascom (page images at MOA)

• The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy (New York: H. Lee and Co., 1878), by Henry Ossian Flipper
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy, by Henry Ossian Flipper (Gutenberg text)

• Francis Wayland Parker: An Interpretive Biography (Los Angeles: I. Deach, 1934), by Ida Cassa Heffron (page images at HathiTrust)

• War Stories and School-Day Incidents for the Children, by B. M. Zettler (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Education of Woman, by Thomas Holmes (page images at MOA)

• The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail (Ravenna, OH: Conscience Press, c1999), by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt (PDF with commentary at deliberatedumbingdown.com)

• Public School Desegregation in the United States, 1968-1980 (Washington: Joint Center for Political Studies, 1983), by Gary Orfield (PDF with commentary at UCLA)

• The National PTA, Race, and Civic Engagement, 1897-1970 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by Christine A. Woyshner (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2011), by Jonathan B. Krasner
  • PDF with commentary at Brandeis
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910-1965 (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2010), ed. by Carol K. Ingall (PDF at Brandeis)

• The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910-1965 (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2010), ed. by Carol K. Ingall (PDF at Brandeis)

• Sisterhood and Solidarity: Workers' Education for Women, 1914-1984 (originally published 1984; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), ed. by Joyce L. Kornbluh and Mary E. Frederickson, contrib. by Dorothy Sue Cobble (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Mixed-Gender Basic Training: The U.S. Army Experience, 1973-2004 (Fort Monroe, VA: U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, 2008), by Anne W. Chapman (PDF at army.mil)

• Schoolbook Nation: Conflicts Over American History Textbooks From the Civil War to the Present (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004), by Joseph Moreau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds: Universities, Leadership, and the Development of the American State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Mark R. Nemec (page images at HathiTrust)

• Edward Charles Elliott, Educator (Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Studies, c1970), by Frank K. Burrin (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Training for Mountain and Winter Warfare (1946), by Thomas P. Govan (HTML at US Army CMH)

• Ninety Years of Education in California, 1846-1936: A Presentation of Educational Movements and Their Outcome in Education Today (Berkeley, CA: Sather Gate Book Shop, c1937), by William Warren Ferrier (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Contribution of the Society of Friends to Education in Indiana (Indiana Historical Society Publications v13 #2; 1939), by Ethel Hittle McDaniel (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Gates Open Slowly: A History of Education in Kentucky (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1949), by Frank LeRond McVey (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Education in Kentucky (published as Bulletin of the KY Dept. of Education v. 7 #4, 1914), ed. by Barksdale Hamlett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• History of Freeborn County: Including Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, and Outline History of the State of Minnesota, by Rev. Edward D. Neill; also, Sioux Massacre of 1862, and State Education by Charles S. Bryant (Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Co., 1882), contrib. by Edward D. Neill and Charles S. Bryant (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937), by Guion Griffis Johnson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers (New York: R. Carter, 1846), by William Henry Foote
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Story of a Bill: Legalizing Homeschooling in Pennsylvania, by Howard Richman (HTML at pahomeschoolers.com)

• Story of a Bill: Legalizing Homeschooling in Pennsylvania, by Howard Richman (HTML at pahomeschoolers.com)

• Memoirs of Mary D. Bradford, by Mary Davison Bradford (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• The National PTA, Race, and Civic Engagement, 1897-1970 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by Christine A. Woyshner (PDF at Ohio State)

• Minding the Time, 1492-1992: Jesuit Education and Issues in American Culture (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1992), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)

• Minding the Time, 1492-1992: Jesuit Education and Issues in American Culture (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1992), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)
• Splendor and Wonder: Jesuit Character, Georgetown Spirit, and Liberal Education (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1988), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)

• A Mid-Century Child and Her Books (New York: Macmillan, 1926), by Caroline M. Hewins
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000 (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel, contrib. by Jeffrey P. Baker, Jeffrey P. Brosco, Leon Eisenberg, Hughes Evans, John Christopher Feudtner, Janet Lynne Golden, Richard A. Meckel, Heather Munro Prescott, and Russell Viner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (25th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1925), by A. T. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (12th edition; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1918), by A. T. Mahan
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The 1619 Project (special issue of The New York Times Magazine, with supplementary materials; 2019), ed. by Nikole Hannah-Jones (PDF with commentary at pulitzercenter.org)

• L'Écriture et le Reste: The Pensées of Pascal in the Exegetical Tradition of Port-Royal (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by David Wetsel (PDF at Ohio State)
• Thoughts, by Blaise Pascal, trans. by W. F. Trotter
  • HTML at Fordham
  • HTML at Bartleby
• Thoughts; Letters; Minor Works (Harvard Classics edition; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1910), by Blaise Pascal, ed. by O. W. Wight, trans. by W. F. Trotter and Mary L. Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, by Robert Barclay, ed. by Licia Kuenning (HTML at qhpress.org)
• An Apology for the True Christian Divinity: Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People Called Quakers, by Robert Barclay (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Four Discourses Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocess of Sarum (London: Printed for Richard Chiswell, 1694), by Gilbert Burnet (multiple formats at Google)

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