Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- A School for Every Purpose: An Introduction to the History of Academies in the United States -- Institutions: Origins and Purposes -- Mapping the Landscape of Higher Schooling, 1727-1850 -- From Anstalt to Academy: Moravian Boarding Education for Native American Children in the Eighteenth Century -- A Triumph of Reason": Female Education in Academies in the New Republic -- Students: Meaning and Culture -- Internal Improvement: The Structure and Culture of Academy Expansion in New York State in the Antebellum Era, 1820-1860 -- Endeavor to Improve Yourself": The Education of White Women in the Antebellum South -- A Good and Delicious Country": Free Children of Color and How They Learned to Imagine the Atlantic World in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana -- Teachers and Institutions: Challenges and Opportunities -- Leaving Home to Teach: The Diary of Susan Nye Hutchison, 1815-1841 -- Creating an Educational Interest": Sophia Sawyer, Teacher of the Cherokee -- Alternative Pedagogy: The Rise of the Private Black Academy in Early Postbellum Mississippi, 1862-1870 -- The Chinese Western Military Academies in the United States, 1902-1911 -- Systems: Competition, Struggle, and Transformation -- Let the People Remember It": Academies and the Rise of Public High Schools, 1865-1890 -- Betrothed to the State?: Nineteenth-Century Academies Confront the Rise of the State Normal Schools -- Many Years before the Mayflower": Catholic Academies and the Development of Parish High Schools in the United States, 1727-1925 -- Conclusion -- Legacies of the Academy -- Contributors -- Index.

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