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Peer reviewedRobson, David W. – History of Education Quarterly, 1983
From 1776-1800, 16 colleges were founded in the United States that still operate today. These colleges, founded on what was then the American frontier, demonstrated both the continuity and the diversity of the period in their student bodies, curriculum, political role, and relationship to the older seaboard colleges and culture. (IS)
Descriptors: Colleges, Colonial History (United States), Curriculum, Educational History
Peer reviewedHiner, N. Ray – History of Education Quarterly, 1973
The pedagogical changes introduced during the Great Awakening reveal that the Puritans of the seventeenth century had not exhausted the educational alternatives open to them; later innovations were developed within the analytical framework built by the seventeenth-century writers. (JB)
Descriptors: Colonial History (United States), Educational History, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy
