A Second Home: Missouri's Early Schools

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Education in Missouri: An Informal History (Jefferson City: Missouri Department of Education and Secondary Education, 1976). The Genesis of Missouri: From Wilderness Outpost to Statehood, by William E. Foley (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989), provides accounts of Missouri’s colonial and territorial periods and explores the historical legacy of the state’s diverse cultures—Indian, French, African, Spanish, and Anglo-American. A History of Education in Missouri, by Claude Anderson Phillips (Jefferson City: Hugh Stephens Printing Co., 1911). History of Education in Missouri, Autobiographical, by William Thomas Carrington (n.p., 1931), is a privately published study of schools and schooling in Missouri. Carrington discusses his experiences as a teacher in a one-room school and as state superintendent of public schools from 1899 to 1907. “I favored standards,” he wrote. “Perhaps while State Superintendent I made too much of standardization.” The History of Missouri, third edition, by Duane G. Meyer (Springfield: Emden Press, 1993). Originally published in 1962 and previously revised in 1970, this is a comprehensive , readable, and generously illustrated history of Missouri. History of the Ozarks, by Eunice Pennington (Point Lookout, Mo.: School of the Ozarks Press, 1971). A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, by William S. Bryan 133 For More Reading 134 and Robert Rose (St. Louis: Bryan, Brand and Co., 1876). James Milton Turner and the Promise of America, by Gary R. Kremer (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991), discusses Turner’s work with the Freedmen’s Bureau and the State Department of Education to establish schools for black children throughout the state. Missouri Reader, edited by Frank Luther Mott (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1964), an anthology of writings about Missouri by Missourians, provides a rich and varied view of Missouri’s cultural, political, and social history. The selections relating to education include “Missouri Rural Schools in the ’Eighties,” by H. J. Blanton from his book When I Was a Boy, and “The Box Supper,” by Joseph Nelson, from Backwoods Teacher. Other selections with information on education or the lack of education in Missouri include “Recollections of Early St. Louis,” by Jesse Benton Frémont, and Jack Conroy’s “Boyhood in a Coal Town,” in which he recalls the joy of receiving the Indianapolis News and devouring it “from the front page to the last editorial, even the advertisements.” Missouri’s Black Heritage, revised edition, by Lorenzo J. Greene, Gary R. Kremer, and Antonio F. Holland (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993), originally published in 1980, draws on many documents and other sources to explore the black experience in Missouri. The Old Country School: The Story of Rural Education in the Middle West, by Wayne Edison Fuller (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), reviews the development of schools in some midwestern states from early schools for farm children to consolidation. Progress in Missouri is mentioned throughout. One-Room Schools of the Middle West: An Illustrated History, by Wayne Fuller (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994). A SECOND HOME 135 County histories of schools published by local groups, individuals , and historical societies proved to be especially helpful in my research for this book. A few of these references are: The Era of the One-Room Rural Schools of Cedar County, Missouri, compiled and written by Jean Nipps Swain (privately published , 1988). History of Clinton County, Missouri, by the Clinton County Bicentennial Committee (privately published, 1977). History of Lafayette County Missouri Rural Schools, compiled and created by members and friends of the Lafayette County Historical Society (Concordia: The Concordian, 1996). The History of Rural Schools of Putnam County, 1843–1965, compiled and written by the Putnam County Historical Society (Milan: Milan Standard, 1986). Readin’ ’Ritin and ’Rithmetic, 1840–1981, compiled and published by Clarence R. Keathley and the Officers and Board of Directors of the Iron County Historical Society (Ironton, 1981). Rural Schools of Dallas County, Vol. 1, compiled by Thelma E. Kurtz (Buffalo: Dallas County Historical Society, 1992). Sketches of Wright County, part three, Schools and Education, compiled and written by Vearl Rowe (privately published). For More Reading ...