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The Golden Age of the Classics in America : Greece, Rome, and the Antebellum United States, PDF eBook

The Golden Age of the Classics in America : Greece, Rome, and the Antebellum United States PDF

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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.

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