Author: PENNSYLVANIA. Board of Controllers of Public Schools of the First School DistrictPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Report to the Controllers of the Public Schools, on the re-organization of the Central High-School of Philadelphia, by A. D. Bache
Author: PENNSYLVANIA. Board of Controllers of Public Schools of the First School DistrictPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Reorganization of Science in Secondary Schools
Author: Arthur Jay KleinPublisher:
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Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
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Reorganization of English in Secondary Schools
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Education, Secondary
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Report on the Public Archives of the City and County of Philadelphia
Author: Herman Vandenburg AmesPublisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Author: American Philosophical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge.
The Making of an American High School
Author: David F. LabareePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300054699
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
An analysis of the origins and development of Central High School, the first public high school in Philadelphia. Using Central as a case study, Labaree argues that the public high school is the product of the struggle between egalitarianism and meritocracy that is endemic to a democratic society.
Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science
Author: Hugh Richard SlottenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521433952
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In this book Hugh Richard Slotten explores the institutional and cultural history of science in the United States. The main focus is on the activities of Alexander Dallas Bache - great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin and the acknowledged "chief" of the American scientific community during the second third of the nineteenth century. Bache played a central role in the organization and management of a number of key scientific institutions, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Academy of Sciences. But his dominance in these institutions was made possible through his control of an organization less well known today, the United States Coast Survey, which he superintended from 1843 until his death in 1867. Under Bache's command the Coast Survey became the central scientific institution in antebellum America. Using richly detailed archival records, Slotten pursues an analysis of Bache and the Coast Survey that illuminates important historiographic themes. We gain a better understanding of the particular style of nineteenth-century American science by examining the role of the Coast Survey as a source of patronage. Perhaps most important, this study explores the ways in which scientific knowledge and practice are embedded within local contexts. Although Bache sought to use the Coast Survey to raise the status of American science partly by emulating European scientific elites, his efforts also reflected the cultural and political values of antebellum America. Slotten thus analyzes the interrelationship between political culture, patterns of patronage, and the institutional practice of science in the United States.
Thomas Eakins
Author: Amy Beth WerbelPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300116557
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The life and work of Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), America’s most celebrated portrait painter, have long generated heated controversy. In this fresh and deeply researched interpretation of the artist, Amy Werbel sets Eakins in the context of Philadelphia’s scientific, medical, and artistic communities of the 19th century, and considers his provocative behavior in the light of other well-publicized scandals of his era. This illuminating perspective provides a rich, alternative account of Eakins and casts entirely new light on his renowned paintings. Eakins’ modern critics have described his artistic motivations and beliefs as prurient and even pathological. Werbel challenges these interpretations and suggests instead that Eakins is best understood as an artist and teacher devoted to an exacting and profound study of the human body, to equality for women and men, and to middle-class meritocratic and Quaker philosophies.
Author: Maggs Bros