Peterson Paul E. Books
The politics of school reform, 1870-1940
Was school reform in the decades following the Civil War an upper-middle-class effort to maintain control of the schools? Was public education simply a vehicle used by Protestant elites to impose t...
Read MoreThe price of federalism
What level of government should be responsible for welfare, education, transportation, and other programs? What are the proper roles of the local, state, and national government? What price do we p...
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