Pre 1880
- Addis, Cameron. Jefferson's Vision for Education: 1760-1845. Lang, 2003. 255 pp.
- Allmendinger, Jr., David F. Paupers and Scholars: The Transformation of Student Life in Nineteenth-Century New England 1975
- Axtell, James. The school upon a hill: Education and society in colonial New England. Yale University Press. (1974).
- Bernard Bailyn. Education in the Forming of American Society (U of North Carolina Press, 1960), colonial era
- Brown, Richard D. The strength of a people: The idea of an informed citizenry in America, 1650–1870 (U of North Carolina Press, 1996)
- Cohen, Patricia. A calculating people: The spread of numeracy in early America (U of Chicago Press, 1982)
- Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607–1783. (1970); American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876. (1980)
- Gilmore-Lehne, W J. Reading becomes a necessity of life: Material and cultural life in rural New England, 1780–1835 (U of Tennessee Press, 1989).
- Graham, Patricia Albjerg. Community & Class in American Education, 1865-1918 1974
- Kaestle, Carl F. The Evolution of an Urban School System: New York City, 1750-1850. Harvard University Press, 1974
- Kaestle, Carl F. Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860. 1983. 266 pp.
- Katz, Michael. The Irony of Early School Reform Harvard University Press, 1968, on Massachusetts
- McAfee, Ward F. Religion, Race, and Reconstruction: The Public School in the Politics of the 1870s. State U. of New York Press, 1998. 320 pp.
- Mattingly, Paul H. The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen in the Nineteenth Century 1975
- Messerli, Jonathan. Horace Mann: A Biography 1972
- Parkerson, Donald H. and Parkerson, Jo Ann. The Emergence of the Common School in the U.S. Countryside. Edwin Mellen, 1998. 192 pp.
- Reese, William J. The Origins of the American High School. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
- Robson, David W. Educating Republicans: The College in the Era of the American Revolution, 1750-1800. Greenwood, 1985. 272 pp.
- Taylor, Bob Pepperman. Horace Mann's Troubling Legacy: The Education of Democratic Citizens (University Press of Kansas; 2010) 192 pages. Argues that Mann's view of civic education marginalized the role of schools in training the intellect; links him to anti-intellectualism in American education.
- Welter, Rush, Popular Education and Democratic Thought in America (Columbia University Press, 1962)
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