The School Upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England

“Provides a provocative new insight into the changing pattern of New England cultural and social history.” —William and Mary QuarterlyThe School Upon a Hill is the first attempt to portray a view of education that, in the author’s words, “enables us to see the educational process if not actually through children’s eyes at least from their position in a Lilliputian universe.” Its subject is socialization: the ways in which children in colonial New England were educated for life in society—wh...