Education in Alabama

Abstract

THIS volume forms one of the admirable series of historical monographs published by the Central Bureau of Education at Washington, and edited under the special supervision of Prof. Herbert Adams, of the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore. It should be explained that in the United States there is nothing analogous to our Education Department, Congress and the Federal Government having no control or jurisdiction over schools, and each State and city making its own laws and administrating its own educational funds. But Congress established in 1866 at Washington a Central Bureau for the purpose of collecting and publishing statistics; and this Bureau, under the energetic direction of successive Commissioners, has sought to increase its own public usefulness by publishing from time to time valuable works on the history and philosophy of education, and particularly, as various practical problems have presented themselves relating to technical, musical, or physical education, it has gathered together, in pamphlets or circulars of information, the best testimony and opinion which could be obtained on the several subjects.

History of Education in Alabama, 1702–1889.

By Willis G. Clark. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889.)