[7] An illuminating discussion of “Jacksonian Democracy” is found in Arthur M. Schlesinger’s New Viewpoints in American History (New York, 1922).
[8] Mann, Horace, Annual Reports on Education (Boston, 1868), pp. 523-558.
[9] Laws of Massachusetts, 1827, ch. 148, p. 180; also Revised Statutes, 1836, ch. 23, p. 218. In the Revised Statutes “general history,” not “history,” is required.
[10] Laws of Vermont ... to 1834, ch. 50 (1827), sec. 1, p. 136; also Revised Statutes, 1840, ch. XVIII, sec. 1, p. 111; also Compiled Statutes, 1851, p. 144.
[11] Laws of New Hampshire, 1845, ch. 220, sec. 6; also Compiled Statutes, 1853, ch. 79, sec. 6, p. 183. This law was retained in 1863.
[12] Revised Statutes of Rhode Island, 1857, ch. 67, sec. 3, p. 173.
[13] Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1857, ch. 206, sec. 1, p. 542.
[14] General Statutes of Massachusetts, 1860, ch. 38, sec. 1, p. 215; Public Statutes, 1882, ch. 44, sec. 1, p. 299. According to a table in ‘A. J. Inglis’ The Rise of the High School in Massachusetts (Columbia University, New York, 1911), p. 90, history was offered in six out of seven towns in 1860, with a per cent of 200 with algebra as a base of 100 per cent. This would indicate an interest in history to a considerable extent.
[15] Political economy as a term included political science as we understand it today. Cf. Inglis, op. cit., p. 141.
[16] Laws of Virginia, 1848-49, ch. 110. An act establishing free schools in the county of Albemarle, p. 60.