The War That Wasn't: Religious Conflict and Compromise in the Common Schools of New York State, 1865-1900

Bibliography of Primary Works Cited

Bibliography of Primary Works Cited ____________________________ As I scoured New York State by phone and computer in search of archival materials, I came to wish for comprehensive lists, by location, of the materials that interested me. Thus I have organized this primary source bibliography by location rather than alphabetically in the hope that it will better serve historians in the field. Readers should note that the Special Collections Department of the Milbank Library at Teachers College and Cubberley Library at Stanford University both have large, and often redundant, collections . For New York State sources, Milbank is the stronger, including boxes of uncatalogued annual reports from cities and villages throughout the state and bound volumes of pamphlets addressing the school question. I also should note for potential researchers the important distinction between annual reports by boards of education and superintendents and the minutes /proceedings of the meetings of boards of education. Not surprisingly, the latter are much more revealing. In cases where minutes or proceedings no longer exist or are difficult to access, historians may find them reproduced in local newspapers. Boards met once or twice a month, on the same days, and newspapers reported on them predictably. Some libraries, such as Lockport, Buffalo, Saratoga Springs, and Rochester, have local history scrapbooks and public school papers from the late nineteenth century, though (in keeping with the thesis of this book) such documents rarely address religion per se. BUFFALO PUBLIC LIBRARY, LOCAL HISTORY SECTION Buffalo. Annual Reports of the Superintendent of Education. Buffalo. Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Buffalo. Buffalo: Joseph Warren and Co., 1868–1900. “Italian Children Make Good Americans.” Buffalo Times, November 24, 1902, from Local History, Schools Scrapbook Collection. 275 CUBBERLEY EDUCATION LIBRARY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY Albany. Annual Report of the Board of Public Instruction of the City of Albany. Auburn. Annual Report of the Board of Education of the City of Auburn. Brooklyn. Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Schools of the City of Brooklyn. Brooklyn. Proceedings of the Board of Education of the City of Brooklyn. Crooker, James. General School Laws of the State of New York, in Force July 1, 1893; Together with the Rules of Practice Governing Appeals to the Department of Public Instruction. Albany: The Argus Company, Printers, 1893. Elmira. Annual Report of the Board of Education of the City of Elmira. Thomas E. Finegan. Judicial Decisions of the State Superintendent of Common Schools, 1913. General School Laws of the State of New York, 1864. Gloversville. Annual Report of the Board of Education of the City of Gloversville. Ithaca. Annual Report of the Board of Education of the City of Ithaca. Jamestown. Annual Report of the Board of Education of the City of Jamestown. Emerson Keyes. Laws of New York Relating to Common Schools, with Comments and Instructions and a Digest of Decisions. Prepared under the Supervision of Neil Gilmour, Superintendent of Public Instruction. Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., 1879. New York (City). Manual of the Board of Education of the City of New York. New York (City). Journal of the Board of Public Instruction (and other titles). New York (State). Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Albany: Weed and Parsons. New York (State). Consolidated School Law of 1894. New York (State). First Annual Report of the Education Department of the State of New York. Albany: New York State Education Department, 1905. New York (State). Revised statutes of the state of New York, relating to common schools, passed in the year 1827, being part of the title second of chapter fifteenth of part first; together with amendments thereto by subsequent acts; with the forms and regulations prepared by the superintendent of common schools, and also a variety of decisions in cases of appeal to him. Albany: Crowell, Van Benthuysen and Burt, 1836. Oswego. Annual Report of the Board of Education of the City of Oswego. Poughkeepsie. Annual Report of the Board of Education of the City of Poughkeepsie. Randall, Samuel Sidwell. A digest of the common school system of the state of New-York together with the forms, instructions, and decisions of the superintendent: an abstract of the various local provisions applicable to the several cities &c.: and a sketch of the origin, progress, and present condition of the system. Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, 1844. 276 Bibliography of Primary Works Cited Syracuse. Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Education of the City of Syracuse. Troy. Manual of...