Author: Carl J. Richard

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-03-23

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780674032644

Richard explores the enshrinement of the classics in American antebellum culture. For the first time, knowledge of the classics extended beyond aristocratic males to the middle class, women, African Americans, and frontier settlers, but the Civil War led to a radical alteration of the educational system that steadily eroded their preeminence.